More than 2,800 young children die in home accidents annually, and more than four million youngsters are injured in the home each year, resulting in 70,000 hospitalizations, a Public Health Research report reveals. Among the top five leading causes of home injury deaths among children include such things as choking/suffocation, poisoning and burns, the Home Safety Council points out. These three causes are generally preventable by careful planning and “accident-proofing” your home.
How do parents “accident-proof” a home? Basically, adult habits have to change drastically when a young child enters a family and reaches the crawling age. Parents have to step back a distance and appraise every inch of every room and imagine “what could happen if our little one could reach this?” And then do something about it. Admittedly, no planning is 100% guaranteed, but you can utilize many items that are available to prevent young children from harming themselves through natural curiosity. One of those is KinderGard, an inexpensive “starter kit” to address the most obvious dangers in the house.
What are some of those dangers? Many of them await in the kitchen. Depending upon the age and dexterity of the young child, he or she is going to want to open cabinet doors and every other kind of door in the kitchen, behind which lurk a myriad of dangerous cleaning and cooking products. Those openings must be “sealed off” from little ones. Drawers in every room are extremely enticing to the child, drawers that are full of such dangerous things as scissors, knives and other potentially harmful tools. The KinderGard addresses these kinds of challenges.
Poisoning, of course, is always a threat in the home. Most of us have many liquids that we don’t even realize would be deadly to a child. They have to be totally out of reach and/or under lock and key. And don’t forget the various pills and other medicines taken daily which could also be fatal to a youngster.
Two other dangers that the National Safety Council cites are uncovered outlet plugs and sharp corners on counters. (Both of these are solved by the KinderGard, with plugs for the outlets and cushions for the corners.)
Parents must always be on guard against potential electrocution of children in bathtubs, sinks and pools, among other places where water could be retained. Electrical appliances, where possible, should be made with immersion-protection devices. In the past, many fatal accidents were caused by hair dryers falling into bathtubs. If you have any old dryers (made in the early 90s), discard them.
Dangers are everywhere you look. Constant attention and alertness when a child is around are the best preventive measures. But you should employ all the help you can get -- from KinderGard and one or more of many other safety devices on the market. If you are interested in seeing KinderGard, go to www.yoursecurityandsafety.com/kindergard.htm
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More than 2,800 young children die in home accidents annually, and more than four million youngsters are injured in the home each year, resulting in 70,000 hospitalizations, a Public Health Research report reveals. Among the top five leading causes of home injury deaths among children include such things as choking/suffocation, poisoning and burns, the Home Safety Council points out. These three causes are generally preventable by careful planning and “accident-proofing” your home.
How do parents “accident-proof” a home? Basically, adult habits have to change drastically when a young child enters a family and reaches the crawling age. Parents have to step back a distance and appraise every inch of every room and imagine “what could happen if our little one could reach this?” And then do something about it. Admittedly, no planning is 100% guaranteed, but you can utilize many items that are available to prevent young children from harming themselves through natural curiosity. One of those is KinderGard, an inexpensive “starter kit” to address the most obvious dangers in the house.
What are some of those dangers? Many of them await in the kitchen. Depending upon the age and dexterity of the young child, he or she is going to want to open cabinet doors and every other kind of door in the kitchen, behind which lurk a myriad of dangerous cleaning and cooking products. Those openings must be “sealed off” from little ones. Drawers in every room are extremely enticing to the child, drawers that are full of such dangerous things as scissors, knives and other potentially harmful tools. The KinderGard addresses these kinds of challenges.
Poisoning, of course, is always a threat in the home. Most of us have many liquids that we don’t even realize would be deadly to a child. They have to be totally out of reach and/or under lock and key. And don’t forget the various pills and other medicines taken daily which could also be fatal to a youngster.
Two other dangers that the National Safety Council cites are uncovered outlet plugs and sharp corners on counters. (Both of these are solved by the KinderGard, with plugs for the outlets and cushions for the corners.)
Parents must always be on guard against potential electrocution of children in bathtubs, sinks and pools, among other places where water could be retained. Electrical appliances, where possible, should be made with immersion-protection devices. In the past, many fatal accidents were caused by hair dryers falling into bathtubs. If you have any old dryers (made in the early 90s), discard them.
Dangers are everywhere you look. Constant attention and alertness when a child is around are the best preventive measures. But you should employ all the help you can get -- from KinderGard and one or more of many other safety devices on the market. If you are interested in seeing KinderGard, go to www.yoursecurityandsafety.com/kindergard.htm
Advantageously, the article is really the sweetest on this valuable topic. I agree with your conclusions and will thirstily look forward to your future updates. Saying thanks will not just be enough, for the wonderful lucidity in your writing. I will right away grab your rss feed to stay informed of any updates. Admirable work and much success in your business endeavors!
I should harmonize with your point. You wrote it down so well. I just stumbled your blog. BTW, I find your writing clean, and easy to read, can you please recommend some books about publishing and blogging? I really appreciate it if you can share the one you studied from. Or perhaps you can write about it as well. Thank you so much. Looking forward in your next blog post. Respects, -- Roxanne
Great stuff as usual...I personally have embraced the new technologies and the CMS platforms, I think the new tools only make the web designs better. I am glad that new technologies are coming out in web design that make things easier, improved, and better looking for design.
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Hi there, nice site with good info. I really like coming back here often. There's only one thing that annoys me and that is the misfunctioning of comment posting. I usually get to 500 error page, and have to do the post twice.
I think that is an interesting point, it made me think a bit. Thanks for sparking my thinking cap. Sometimes I get so much in a rut that I just feel like a record.
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Very good article. I've found your blog via Bing and I'm really happy about the information you provide in your articles. Btw your blogs layout is really messed up on the Chrome browser. Would be great if you could fix that. Anyhow keep up the great work!
I am buying Salt and Pepper Pots from different countrieswhenever I can and where ever I find them. They are so cute. Besides they are useful and complete my kitchen and dinner table.
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I find it difficult to believe everything that is written here is all true. Maybe some of you should look to do some more research before you comment on here in future!
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I bought a new Hair Dryer Holder last week and I must say it's a great device. I'm wondering how I have lived without that. I only can say it made my life easier and it's saving so much time.
Thanks a lot for this post. It's incredibly informative. If you don't mind, I've got a question; How do you deal with Spam in blog comments? I genuinely hate it, It wastes my time and I hate dealing with it each day. Do you have any suggestions for what I can do to reduce the amount of comment spam I get on my blog? Thanks for the suggestions"