Is your child playing the deadly ‘Chocking Game’?  11% of kids are so parents really need to be aware of the warning signs.

Although kids are secretive about experimenting with asphyxiation — most of the related deaths occur between 4 and 6pm, when parents are typically not yet home from work — Bleak notes that there are warning signs. They include:

•Marks and bruising around the neck
•Bloodshot eyes and other inexplicably chronic eye problems (caused by the force of cutting off oxygen to the brain)
•Frequent, severe headaches
•Uncharacteristic irritability or hostility, “almost like ’roid rage,” Bleak says
•Ropes, scarves, or belts tied to strange places, such as chairs or doorknobs

“I’ve become pretty passionate about it because the awareness isn’t out there,” Bleak explains, “and prevention is hugely important.”

Much of his inspiration has come from Rogg, who has dedicated her life to the issue since Erik’s death, a loss that “destroyed” her world.

“He learned [the choking game] at home on Monday and tried it on Tuesday. If I’d had the information, I could have talked with him about it,” she laments. “He was on top of the world, at the top of his game. He was focused. He had plans. He was a responsible kid. But he was 12. Kids that age can think through some of the consequences, but they can’t think through them all.”

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