child safety

Toddlers and a broken glass incident - what to do

The probability of stuff breaking in the house goes up dramatically when you have children. So I'm usually not that shocked when it happens. As I recently found out though, cleaning up BROKEN GLASS with a toddler in the house adds a lot more drama to the usual routine I'd go through. Since it was the first time it had happened to us since having Noah we had a bit of an adrennaline rush as I realised that it is actually quite a dangerous situation. Over the last few weeks it has happened again (and again) and I got used to dealing with it efficiently - so I put together a step-by-step guide of what to do after a glass breaking incident. This works for me:

1) Lift up your child, take away from the scene and check for any cuts

Submitted by stefan on Fri, 06/02/2009 - 7:45pm

Baby safety gates

Even when you've shown your little crawler or walker hot to go up or down the stairs it's still important to secure them. It's one thing to watch your toddler climb up or down stairs with you behind them ready to step in as soon as they look like they are about to fall but another thing altogether to let them do this by themselves. So make sure you've got safety gates in place and don't remove them too early.

There are lots of baby product brands who offer safety gates such as Kidco Baby Gates, Evenflo, Cardinal, Guardian Angel, Dreambaby and many others. So there's bound to be a selection of gates at your local baby store. Make sure you measure the width of your staircase (wall to wall) before you go out to buy them. When I went to buy ours I got the measurement completely wrong and we had to go back for an extension.

Submitted by stefan on Sun, 22/06/2008 - 3:36pm