How to Keep Your Toddlers Safe from Harm at Home

If you are a parent with a toddler, then you know how difficult it can be to try and keep your child safe even at home. These are the years when your kids will be truly curious about the things around them, and what their boundaries are. The potential for disaster and for accidents to happen is rather high, which is why you need to help ensure that your child is safe by enacting measures that will keep them safe.

Different rooms in your home present different challenges when it comes to safety and in order to keep your little ones safe, you need to ensure that each room in your house is toddler proof. To help you with such a task, here are a few things that may help keep your home safe for toddlers to be in:

Bathroom safety – there are a few things to remember about bathrooms and toddlers, and one of the most important is probably to not leave your child in the tub alone. Another thing you should avoid doing is to store water in buckets or other similar containers since these can be a drowning threat for your child. Also, to ensure general safety and to prevent your kid from entering the bathroom on their own, install locks outside that only adults can reach, or put a safety gate on your bathroom door.

Kitchen safety – toddlers usually gravitate towards rooms in your home that have many interesting gadgets and things they can look at, listen to, and touch, and the kitchen is one of these places. The kitchen is also one of the places that present the most danger to them, with things like electric outlets, hot surfaces, wires, sharp objects, and many more being present here. Toddler proof your kitchen by ensuring that everything that can cause any harm, such as knives, wires, and even cleaning fluids, are kept out of the child’s reach. Cleaning fluids need to be kept under lock and key, wires should be kept hidden or shortened with the help of twist ties, and sharp objects carefully placed out of their reach.

Bedroom safety – while most children’s furniture are constructed to be safe for a child to use, there are some that do have design flaws, such as too wide gaps between the bars on them, which can cause a child’s head to get stuck. Make sure that you buy age appropriate furniture for your toddler, and to check if the manufacturer is following guidelines for the creation of child safe furniture. 

jenny downing @flckr