How safe are your children in your home? Safety is an
important part of raising children in a loving and nurturing home. Knowing that
they are safe when they walk into the doors of your home can give you peace of
mind. Below are 15 things that should be
kept out of the reach of your child. Read over this list to see if there is
something that you have missed in making your home as safe as it possibly can
be.
- Medications. This is a no brainer! Regardless, countless parents still leave their medications lying around for little hands to get a hold of. Make sure that all medication is out of the reach of your child. This may mean locking up a cabinet or putting them in the top of your closet.
- Firearms. Guns are not toys. Guns should be stores in a lock gun cabinet. This includes what seem to be harmless guns such as pellet guns. Pellets may not kill, but they can certainly put an eye out.
- Cleaning products. Kids love to mimic mom and get busy cleaning. Unfortunately, this can have a devastating impact on a child’s health if he or she is to get a hold of the cleaning products. Keep all cleaning products out of the reach of your children. Don’t store them away under the sink!
- Knives or other sharp objects. Kitchen knives are often reported as one of the top household products that cause injury to children. Where are the knives that you use to cook dinner located? Keeping them in a drawer is very dangerous. Choose to relocate them to a safer place such as a high cabinet or far enough in a corner on the countertop that you child cannot reach them.
- Electrical outlets. How many times were you tempted to find out what was going on in those electrical outlets? Your little ones will be just as curious. Be sure to make sure the electrical outlets in your home are covered to help protect your children from electrical shock.
- Breakable vases. Vases, or anything breakable for that matter, should be kept out of the reach of children. Broken glass causes many unthinkable injuries each year. That pretty vase you have sitting on your coffee table may just be an accident waiting to happen.
- Cords from blinds. This is an old one in the book but still needs to be taken seriously. Cords from blinds should be placed up high. You don’t want to give your little one a change to get the string wrapped around his or her neck.
- Necklaces. Similarly, necklaces can also pose a risk to your child. Keep long necklaces out of the reach your child. Make sure that your child doesn’t wear necklaces to bed to avoid a potential choking hazard.
- Marbles or other small objects. Marbles can be fun for your child to play with. Unfortunately, they almost always make it to the mouth. Keep marbles out of the reach of young children
- Handles from pots on the stove. When you are cooking, play close attention to the handles on your pots. Place them out of sight so that young children won’t attempt to pull them down.
- Watch batteries. Discard of old watch batteries. Swallowing these can cause serious harm to children.
- Children’s vitamins. Vitamins are medication. Keep these out of the reach of your children. Children often view them as candy.
- Fluoride tooth paste. Children like to eat tooth paste. This can be dangerous to their health as well.
- Burning candles. Children are highly interested in candles! Keep burning candles out of the reach of children.
- Plastic bags. Be sure to discard of or put all plastic bags up high where you children can’t reach them. Suffocation is real and happens all too often with plastic bags.
Use the list above to help make sure that you children are
safe. Keeping these items up high and
out of reach of your children may just help save their lives. Have peace of mind knowing that these things
are far enough out of reach to keep your child safe. Did we leave anything off the list? Feel free to leave your ideas in the comment section!
The article was written by 1001 Artificial Plants – An
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