Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Top 10 Tips to ChildProof Your Home

Childproofing a home is nothing but, keeping your house kid-safe. Kids are very curious about touching, handling and using or breaking the things that they come across. If you take some precautions and follow these ten tips your home will be a kid-friendly home.

1. Store spray cans such as perfumes, toilet cleaners and other products which are harmful to inhale or swallow in a locked container. These substances include but not limited to: bleaches, detergents, kerosene, petrol, spices, pesticides and some cosmetics.

2. Look around for easily breakable objects in your home. Store them in places somewhere out of reach for children.

3. Keep knives, sharp edged products in cupboards that are fitted with safety latches. Install safety latches if your cupboards do not have.

4. Does your bathroom door locks itself automatically? If so, please fix it so it can be opened from outside itself. I have heard terrible stories of kids locking themselves inside a bathroom or a restroom.

5. Keep your household plans and decorative bonsai trees away in the garden.

6. Put safety caps for electrical outlets and prevent an opportunity for young toddlers who like to poke their tiny fingers into the plug points.

7. In your refrigerator, do not keep any food items or vegetables that are not suitable for direct consumption by kids. Keep them in the first two containers well above the reach of kids.

8. Store lawn mowers, axes and other hardware tools in the garage and lock them. Children are curious to act like parents and such sharp tools cause life-threatening dangers.

9. Keep attics, basements and other spare rooms locked. Let kids not use them for playing hide-and-seek.

10. Finally, think like a kid. If anything is brightly coloured, children get attracted to them.

You have done all the things that you can now and it is the time to test if your home is really childproof. What a better way to test other than bringing a kid. When the kid comes for testing your home, follow the kid and allow the kid to play with only safe items. Anything dangerous, remove them immediately.

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