Time spent playing or working outside is always good but there are a few things that everyone should keep an eye out for so that they don’t suffer from one of nature’s surprises.

Skin is the body’s largest organ and without it, as John Lithgow sings in one of my favorite children’s songs, “both your liver and abdomen would keep falling on the floor.” That line used to illicit a giggle from my son in his toddler years, and it’s still a good reminder of how important the outer layer is to our body’s overall well being. Skin not only holds our disparate parts together, it protects us from heat, light, injury, and infection. In return, it’s worth protecting, whether we’re one or 100.