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Make Your Home Safer For Children
Karlie BestlerAccidents in the home are the primary cause of death for children in the U.S. By taking some simple precautions, many injuries can be avoided. You can make your home safe for your children and children who visit. Follow these simple single parenting family safety precautions for a safer home for young children.
In your kitchen, you should install safety latches on cabinets and drawers. This helps to stop little ones getting to everyday household chemicals you use for cleaning and sharp objects like scissors or knives in the drawers. Use the back burners when cooking on the stovetop and keep the handles of your pots and pans turned out of the reach of small children.
Safety latches should also be installed on the cabinets and drawers in your bathrooms as well to keep small children away from unsafe household cleaning products, medicines, and other small objects. Unplug any electrical appliances such as a blow dryer or curling iron directly after use and put out of a child's reach.
Teach children early that electricity and water do not mix and electrical appliances should never be immersed in or placed under running water. Toilet locks should also be used in homes that have small children to keep lids down. Young children are awkward and top heavy and can easily fall into a toilet bowl if they lean over to play in it. A young child can drown in less than an inch of water, so it is imperative to supervise them closely in the bathroom at all times.
In the rest of the house, secure furniture such as bookshelves and heavy furniture that could tip easily to the wall using brackets. Use doorknob covers to keep them out of rooms with potential hazards and to keep them from going outside unsupervised. Make sure your window blinds don't have looped cords on them as they can present a strangulation hazard to a young child. Always cover your electrical outlets with protective covers to keep small fingers from them and small objects from being inserted into them.
Check your house carefully for other potential hazards. With these precautions and common sense, your house will be much safer for children.
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