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Summary: Learn how to childproof your living room to keep your kids safe from hidden dangers from a parenting expert in this free how-to video on childproofing your home with safety tips for kids.
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About the Expert
Valerie Lary Valerie Lary has appeared in several parenting videos on the subject of childproofing, and has childproofed her own home for the safety of her children. read more
Check all art work within reach of young children, especially with breakable glass. Things like this here, children will pop off easily and may insert things like forks or knives into the electrical sockets, so these really aren’t needed when you have children.
Plants look great, don’t they? But they’re really quite dangerous for little kids. They look at them sometimes as candy as this could look like to you. So I recommend we take all our plants when we have little kids and put them up high, and especially this one not being quite stable- this should be way up high. So with little children, all plants as a rule - let’s put them up.
To a little kid, this much look like art to them. So what would they like to do? They’d like to put their fingers through doors. Then of course they can open them and here you have everything they could possibly- especially glass could be very, very detrimental to a child. So I’d recommend that we put latches through every type of door or cupboard that a child could access. That way, we can all feel secure that we won’t have any trouble with our children getting into things that they’re not supposed to be getting into. So let’s put things that they cannot get into and not get into trouble.
Sometimes we forget as parents, when we open up our blinds, this is in reach for children. So what I suggest is to totally place these cords way up high so they cannot strangle your children.