I stum­bled across this video on Home Safety on YouTube, posted by the UK Depart­ment for Chil­dren, Schools and Families.

Of course curi­ous what their pos­si­ble mes­sage on the risks of scalds from hot bev­er­ages would be. And indeed: they cer­tainly high­light the dam­age that can be caused by show­ing the acci­dent as it hap­pens from the child’s point of view. A pow­er­ful way of illus­trat­ing the risks we take, or let our chil­dren take, rather, and to make us feel the dan­ger in our bones. The voiceover com­ple­ments the images: for us adults, a spilled cup of cof­fee means a 2-minute has­sle to re-boil the ket­tle. But for your child, it can mean two months in hos­pi­tal to  treat the skin grafts.

How­ever — where I don’t agree is on their pre­ven­tion strat­egy. The father in the clip places the cof­fee cup in the mid­dle of the table as a pre­ven­tive move.

That is good.

But I do believe the Mum­my­Mug is a way bet­ter. Just like the mother in the video clip places a secu­rity gate in front of the stairs to pre­vent a fall, we should choose for a smart solu­tion also for scald­ing burns.

This inspired me to do some­thing long over­due: to update the sec­tion of the Mum­my­Mug home­page on the real­ity of scald­ing burns: now you can find a range of sta­tis­tics, reports and, last but not least, tips and a video instruc­tion on how to deal with a scald, should the acci­dent nev­er­the­less hap­pen. Hope you will find it useful!

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