The little one has reached her first birthday and starting to become a bit of a handful. Before we went away she was crawling and standing up and could walk with us holding her hands for support.

 

We are now back home and she is literally running everywhere, opening draws and emptying anything she can get her hands on onto the floor.

 

She understands basic words in two seperate langauges, but even though she knows what "no" or "ne" mean shes thinks it's funny when we tell her "no" or "ne". I'm sure she will get it in time and she knows now not to go near certain things.

 

For those that have been through this stage already, what's the best options to make the house much safer for her. We have already made sure all plug sockets have caps. All corners at head height or lower now have soft protectors on them. We don't want to wrap her up so tight in cotton wool but will really kick ourselves if we have missed anything. I mean there are so many protectors / guards etc. out there I'm just wondering if we really need them all. She is never left on her own, so we will always be keeping a constant eye on her but I'm just a bit worried.

 

 

excellent mate, its great fun aint it ....if i can recomend fitting door stoppers that stop the doors closing 100 shut unless an adult lifts the stop out of the way first ..my litle girl nearly lost her fingers when her brother shut the door on her hand only thing that saved her was a soft toy she was carrying....same applies to kitchen dawers....and move any loose rugs ...also watch out for overhanging things , like cables hanging down from kettles or toasters etc and if you have tiled or lamintaed floors get them treated with an anti slip coating ...and the other thing is make sure that any bath overflows are covered

my cousins daughter got her finger end trapped in one of those .........also check your shoes before you put them on ..my girl used to put anything she could get hold of in mine

dolls toy cars..and the worst and most painful of all Duplo and lego bricks

 

good luck mate

 

steve

As she grows up make sure that all pots and pans have their handles out of reach.... turned inwards towards the back of the hob. I know of one child who grabbed a handle on a pan of hot water..... not pleasant

 

And gradually you'll have move breakables up a level or onto the next shelf up every two or three months !

Little monster lol

 

I bought a couple of home safe kits, think they were from lloyds chemist, they came with the socket covers and draw stoppers etc. fitted them to all the kitchen draws and a couple in the bedroom.

 

Had a stair gate at the top and bottom, only had one at the bottom for a while until the enevatable happened!

 

I also had a webcam in the kitchen so I could watch him from the other room. Gone are the days when you can just put her down and she will still be there when you get back a few seconds later! You have got this phase for another couple of years I'm afriad!

 

As above all handles from stuff on the hobs need to be turned inwards, kitchen knives not left out etc.

 

You can be 100% safe and you will still worry mate it wont just go away so the answer is just be as sensible as you can.

 

All kids will bump into things and fall over, get squashed fingers in doors, fall down a few stairs!

Edited November 11, 200817 yr by edk83

kitty litter box/ashtray etc - if you got any - MOVE THEM!! she will eat the contents! :hurl:

kitty litter box/ashtray etc - if you got any - MOVE THEM!! she will eat the contents! :hurl:

 

Do you not have kitty litter for your breakfast then?! :rofl:

LMAO I think I should have rephrased the question a little.

I think what I was looking for is tips and tricks rather that obvious things like Knives and hot pans .

 

The problem is that at the moment we are constantly supervising her and it would be nice to just think that she can travel around a little without us worrying what she is up to, even if it’s just for 5 minutes. But then I guess we are at the stage now where you just can’t do that and it will probably be like this for another 4- 5 years.

 

if i can recomend fitting door stoppers that stop the doors closing 100 shut unless an adult lifts the stop out of the way first ..my litle girl nearly lost her fingers when her brother shut the door on her hand only thing that saved her was a soft toy she was carrying....same applies to kitchen dawers....and move any loose rugs ...also watch out for overhanging things , like cables hanging down from kettles or toasters etc and if you have tiled or lamintaed floors get them treated with an anti slip coating ...and the other thing is make sure that any bath overflows are covered

my cousins daughter got her finger end trapped in one of those .........also check your shoes before you put them on ..my girl used to put anything she could get hold of in mine

Thanks Steve, I have the foam door stops that fit around the top of the door to prevent it closing all the way. These are fitted upstairs where she is always opening and closing the doors. We have so many draws around our house that it would cost a small fortune to fit them with child proofs. I just worked out that we have 27 drawers that she can access & 32 cupboard doors. I think I’ll just move anything potentially dangerous to the same drawer and lock a few of them. We don’t have any overhanging cables as the kitchen appliances and electrics are well out of her reach for a good few years yet. The floors… that’s a different story, the whole of the downstairs is either wood or tiles, but then I don’t think this is a problem as she has those little socks from Next that have grips at the bottom and she wears her indoor slippers downstairs anyway as the floor can sometimes be a little cold. She’s never left unsupervised in the bath so I think we should be already with the overflow but point taken, I will keep that in mind. Shoes are always stored in closed shoe rack which she can’t open so I should also be alright on that front.

 

As she grows up make sure that all pots and pans have their handles out of reach.... turned inwards towards the back of the hob. I know of one child who grabbed a handle on a pan of hot water..... not pleasant

And gradually you'll have move breakables up a level or onto the next shelf up every two or three months !

Thanks Tony, She can’t reach up to the hob yet so no probs there, but yeah already though of the pots and pans. We have some very nice crystal candle stick holders and some very expensive wedding ornaments within her reach but she has learnt that she isn’t to touch them, although I know one day she probably will so I’ll move them out of the way as well. How many shelves do you have ? lol. We don’t really have many shelves in our house and those that we do have in the bedroom at the end of the cupboards, we’ve already caught her climbing up to the third one .

 

Little monster lol

 

I bought a couple of home safe kits, think they were from lloyds chemist, they came with the socket covers and draw stoppers etc. fitted them to all the kitchen draws and a couple in the bedroom.

 

Had a stair gate at the top and bottom, only had one at the bottom for a while until the enevatable happened!

 

I also had a webcam in the kitchen so I could watch him from the other room. Gone are the days when you can just put her down and she will still be there when you get back a few seconds later! You have got this phase for another couple of years I'm afriad!

 

As above all handles from stuff on the hobs need to be turned inwards, kitchen knives not left out etc.

 

You can be 100% safe and you will still worry mate it wont just go away so the answer is just be as sensible as you can.

 

All kids will bump into things and fall over, get squashed fingers in doors, fall down a few stairs!

Thanks Ed, Yeah we have top and bottom stair gates already, and all the socket covers, as mentioned above I’ll buy some draw stoppers as well and move the dangerous stuff to one draw in the other rooms, and fit all the kitchen draws with them.

 

kitty litter box/ashtray etc - if you got any - MOVE THEM!! she will eat the contents! :hurl:

No cats and we don’t smoke in the house so at least I know that ones covered 100% .

I don't know if anyones mentioned it yet as i don't have time to read the thread but if you have any tall free standing cupboard units get some strapping, cut it into short lengths and screw 1 end into the wall and 1 into the top of the cupboard as if she tries to pull the doors open, when they hit the child locks it can cause the cupboard to rock!!! we found out the hard way, luckily i caught the cupboard before my little one got flattened and she just had a couple of bumps from things that fell off, could have been much worse!!!!

I don't know if anyones mentioned it yet as i don't have time to read the thread but if you have any tall free standing cupboard units get some strapping, cut it into short lengths and screw 1 end into the wall and 1 into the top of the cupboard as if she tries to pull the doors open, when they hit the child locks it can cause the cupboard to rock!!! we found out the hard way, luckily i caught the cupboard before my little one got flattened and she just had a couple of bumps from things that fell off, could have been much worse!!!!

 

Good point, but all our cupboards are intergrated or already with the exception of the cupboard in her bedroom, but then this was from muma and pappa's so came with a security strap like you mentioned anyway.

Thanks for the though though.

Keep em coming, I'm sure there are loads of things that can be useful. And if it prevents injury or worst them it's important.

My alledged father nailed me little wellies to the floor,then popped me in em.Did'nt get bumps and fall down till I was seven.What a wise man. :bow::bow::bow:

Ah kids are much tougher than people give um credit for. Just take care of the obviouse. They will hurt them selves now and then but if they didn't they wouldnt learn that things can be dangerouse.

 

They do alright in Tibet running about mountain sides, sure yours will be fine. :)

My alledged father nailed me little wellies to the floor,then popped me in em.Did'nt get bumps and fall down till I was seven.What a wise man. :bow::bow::bow:

 

 

LMFAO!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

Thats ace!

LMAO I think I should have rephrased the question a little.

I think what I was looking for is tips and tricks rather that obvious things like Knives and hot pans .

 

Well one of those puffer bottles full of water works on dogs and other pets, failing that how about one of those electro collars :p