Simplify Your Life by Covering Up Your Band-aids (featuring Safeskin Kid Sports Wrap & a $100 giveaway)

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Is there a child in the world who doesn’t delight in her scrapes and bumps in a strange way? Who doesn’t celebrate her booboos in a thinly veiled plea for pity and bandages?

Please tell me that your kids do this. If they don’t, mine must be weird, and that cannot possibly be the case.

Look at her mother, after all.

Maybe you shouldn’t.

Let’s move on.

My kid looks at her booboos. She examines them. She shows them to everyone she meets, giving a detailed explanation of the incident in which the wound occurred and a thorough report of the healing process.

And oh! to! get! a! bandage! That is the pinnacle of childhood trauma, is it not?

(To read the following correctly, you have to say it really fast and wave your hands around for emphasis.) See this booboo, right here? I got it when I was running in my flip-flops and I tripped and fell on the sidewalk but I landed on the driveway by the car and when I fell, I scraped my hands and my knees and my foot right here, see? I was bleeding all over the place!

The idea of the bandage is to keep the wound clean and promote healing, right? Do you know what happens next?

If your kid is anything like mine, she removes the bandage over and over and over and over again. It is just too tempting.

After the second or third time, she requires a new bandage because the old one (having been repeatedly abused) no longer sticks.

Mo-o-om! I was checking on my booboo, and my bandage fell right off!

It’s exasperating, but exasperating in the cutest, most endearing way possible.

I may get twitchy at the thought of wasted band-aids.

Just saying.

I have found a life simplifying, band-aid preserving solution, thanks to Safeskin® Kids Sport Wrap.

Kids Sport Wrap is like an Ace bandage but colored. Both Grace and I have latex allergies; this is latex-free. It’s a little stretchy, and it sticks to itself (awesome since those little clip thingies get lost and stepped on by the adults in the home). Best of all, the Kids Sports Wrap is brightly colored – red or blue.

Grace loves the color. A plain old beige wrap will not do for this kid.

On the package, it says that the Kids Sports Wrap is excellent for first aid applications like securing bandages or splints and protecting and cushioning wounds (though not intended to have direct contact with broken skin – use a band-aid or gauze or something underneath). I say it’s excellent for protecting and hiding band-aids and for appeasing bandage-obsessed children. This looks like a serious injury, does it not?

Available for $3.94 at Walmart, Kids Sports Wrap is inexpensive enough to heal booboos too small to see, soothe tender spirits, and play doctor. {Plus, when you Like Safeskin’s Facebook page, you can download a 50 cents off coupon.} Grace has already wrapped Momma’s tired ankle in this red wrap several times. Today.

Kidding aside, the Kids Sports Wrap is not a frivolous novelty; I put one in my car’s first aid kit. Because it’s self adhesive, water-resistant, reusable, latex free, and doesn’t need clips or pins to secure it in place, I’ll be able to use it for an injury whether we’re hiking, at the playground, or swimming. The Kids Sports Wrap, some band-aids, and some gauze, and I’m set for all of the normal kid injuries.

Please use your brain when applying any stretchy bandage. Don’t wrap it too tightly. If it’s uncomfortable or hinders circulation, take it off and wrap it again.

Win a $100 Walmart Gift Card!

Kimberly-Clark Professional is providing me with a $100 Walmart gift card to give away to one lucky Feels Like Home reader!

To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment explaining how you would use a Safeskin Kids Sports Wrap with your kids.

You may receive three (3) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:

• Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post.
• Share a picture of your kids wearing Safeskin Kids Sports Wrap in a creative way and leave the link to it in a comment.
• Tweet about this promotion including @TaraZiegmont and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post.
• Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post.

No duplicate comments. This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older.

Winners will be selected via random draw (using a plugin called And the Winner Is) and will be notified by e-mail. Winner will have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

Good luck! This sweepstakes runs from 4/20/12 – 4/27/12.

This post is sponsored by Kimberly-Clark Professional as part of the Sport Some Color SAFESKIN Kids Sport Wrap Challenge.  Kimberly-Clark Professional also provided the gift card for the giveaway. Please see my disclosure policy for more information.

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Tagged as: band-aids, first aid, pretend play

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