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Raleigh mom fighting for playground changes after daughter burned on equipment
CBS 17 ^ | Aug 29, 2019 | : Bridget Chapman

Posted on 08/30/2019 7:12:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase

CARY, N.C. (WNCN) — A Wake County mom is trying to keep other parents from experiencing what she did when her child suffered severe burns on playground equipment.

“It was a struggle,” said Danielle Zillioux.

Zillioux said her daughter was only 14-months-old when she got 2nd-degree burns on her hands.

“Every time we had to change [the bandages], she would cry, especially when the blisters broke. It was just painful,” she said.

It happened two years ago at Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy of West Cary. Zillioux worked there at the time.

“The teacher that was with my daughter at the time, she felt horrible. She was very emotionally upset.”

She said she never pursued legal action and kept working there because she didn’t feel it was malicious.

Instead, she and her husband met with the day care heads to get safety measures in place.

She said part of what they agreed on after the incident was adding a shade structure to the playground.

She’s shared her daughter’s burn photos each summer on social media to spread awareness.

“It doesn’t have to be super hot days. It doesn’t have to be direct sunlight,” she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belongsinchat; children; heat; playground
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To: Rebelbase
As a toddler, I went hands-first into a hot charcoal grill. Palms were full 2nd degree burns. Don't remember my mother calling for the abolishment of grills (although I think my dad got reamed over the event)...

Adult supervision required...

21 posted on 08/30/2019 7:40:34 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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To: gr8eman

OMG...what if a child walks on hot sand at the beach!!!???


22 posted on 08/30/2019 7:41:12 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Rebelbase
She said part of what they agreed on after the incident was adding a shade structure to the playground.

We had shade structures in our playgrounds when we were kids... We called them "trees."

23 posted on 08/30/2019 7:41:45 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Openurmind

“Now days they call CPS and have parents charged with neglect because their kids are outside with no shoes on. Even in your own front yard.”

Playing barefoot in my front yard runs the risk of land mines, courtesy of a 72 lb. American Bull Dog, American Staffordshire Terrier, GSD, Lab cross and a 120 lb. Great Dane.


24 posted on 08/30/2019 7:42:33 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: piasa

Then again they were honey locust trees with 8 inch multipronged thorns profusely growing out of the trunk and limbs.


25 posted on 08/30/2019 7:44:18 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: VietVet876
You all gotta convince them to paint all the equipment white so’s it will reflect the sunlight. White is the coolest, hear?


26 posted on 08/30/2019 7:45:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rebelbase

That’s what Bactine was for....spray a little Bactine on the kid and you’re good to go.


27 posted on 08/30/2019 7:46:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: libstripper

lol, safer to wear shoes then!


28 posted on 08/30/2019 7:50:02 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: dfwgator

No man! Just elementary physics. Something I learned in sixth grade at a public school in the boondocks of Pennsylvania in 1959.


29 posted on 08/30/2019 7:50:22 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Rebelbase
I'm of the opinion a 14 month old baby is way to small and frail for “playground” equipment...
30 posted on 08/30/2019 7:51:58 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Reily

“Hot” was our kids’ warning word when they were little. It worked much better and faster than “No.” Don’t know why since they were never burned.

Apparently, parents can’t be bothered to get their noses out of their phones to check how hot the slide might be.

Putting a shade over the playground also deprives kids from the Vit D they get from the sun.


31 posted on 08/30/2019 7:52:23 AM PDT by bgill
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To: dfwgator

Can we call them Monkey Bars anymore?

I guess Jungle Gym is safe, oh wait, never mind.


32 posted on 08/30/2019 7:57:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: bgill

And the “shade” deprives them of the learning experience of “direct sunlight makes things hot”!

Scuffed up knees, elbows, bruises, sprained ankles, blisters, bee stings, mosquito bites, poison ivy, etc. are part & parcel the lessons & memories of childhood!


33 posted on 08/30/2019 7:59:30 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Rebelbase

I remember touching a metal slide and noticing it was hot. So much for free thinking these days.


34 posted on 08/30/2019 7:59:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: libstripper

Our previous dog was respectful (seriously respectful in everything she did) of where to poop. She’d aways do it as far away from the house and where people walked as she could. She also figured out on her own to pee before hoping in for a car ride.

With the current furbabies, you learn to walk with your eyes to the ground.


35 posted on 08/30/2019 8:02:47 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

some dogs are frighteningly human in their understanding of the “human world”.


36 posted on 08/30/2019 8:04:49 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dfwgator

And before Bactine there was Mercurochrome, with mercury, for our cuts and scrapes.


37 posted on 08/30/2019 8:06:29 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: dznutz

......it’s a wonder we survived into adulthood.


38 posted on 08/30/2019 8:10:15 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: dfwgator

Block the sun mommy, it’s burning my eyes!


39 posted on 08/30/2019 8:10:30 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Harpotoo

“2 years ago and now she’s bi+ch’n?”

Read the article.


40 posted on 08/30/2019 8:16:20 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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