[header] How to keep kids safe when sledding [title] Determine if the sledding space is safe. [step] One of the most important things you can do to keep your kids safe is to make sure the hill where they are sledding is safe. The hill shouldn't have any kind of obstacle on it. 
Obstacles are dangerous, not fun things for the kids to dodge. Running into trees, fences, boulders, and other things in the sled path is a common way kids get injured.