Understand Stove Safety for Children

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Hi! I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and today I'm giving you advice on baby proofing your kitchen. You want to be really careful when your child is in the kitchen and you're using your stovetop. Burners actually come in obviously, different sizes and different arrangements. Sometimes the burners are very close to the edge and sometimes they're a little further back. You don't want to take it for granted if your burners are a little further back that your child won't be able to reach it. Again, it's the old rule about children being resourceful and being able to drag anything across the floor and use it to stand and hoist themselves up. There are many different burner covers on the market and I highly recommend investing in them. They're very inexpensive, but they will keep your child's little fingers safe from hot burners once you've taken the pot off. Really, the only way to insure that your child isn't going to get burned when you're cooking is to be aware of where your child is to keep them away from the area. Again, accidents happen very, very quickly. One other quick tip before I let you go, it's really that you have the phone number to poison control on both your cell phone, your house phone, and up on the refrigerator on a piece of paper. Anywhere where it can be reachable in case of an emergency. Be sure that if your child ever ingest anything, that you have the information in front of you to be able to tell poison control what to do. It's not always recommended that you induce vomiting. It really just depends on what's been ingested, so be sure that you have that number handy and that you use it. That's what they're there for. They're answering 24 hours a day.

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