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How To Avoid Injury Risks With Toddlers At Home

by: Snehal | last updated: July 27, 2009
Category: Health & Safety: Safety | Tags: toddlers, house, injuires, accidents at home, baby care, risks, safety of babies

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How To Avoid Injury Risks With Toddlers At Home

Toddlers are bundles of energy. They want to move around, experiment with every little thing around them and get into adventures. As a result, parents hardly get to breathe when the kid is awake. So also their experimentation leads to several funny incidents as well many serious ones. Hence it is very important to teach them some things as well as to be with them to prevent them from landing into trouble. You may also have to change the settings of your house for that.

Toddlers have a habit of putting their hands on things or picking up things without bothering to check what it is. Hence make sure, you close the electricity sockets if they are reachable, disconnect wires. Do not keep windows or balcony doors open. Use childproof locks everywhere.

The kitchen is the favorite place to experiment. Place the utensils, sharp objects and filled containers away from them. Make sure you do not leave any hot item or utensil at a reachable distance. If possible do not let them into the kitchen as it is risky when they play below and you are handling things above.

Their third habit is pulling things and trying to stand by support or walk. Be very careful with furniture items. Do not use movable furniture or heavy items. Do not stack one item over the other. Be careful of sofas and beds too. They hurt themselves by the edges when trying to stand up or walk.

Another habit is popping in everything that they find. Do not keep anything other than safe toys around them. Objects like pills, medicines, beads, erasers are a big NO.

Toddlers love to start walking or crawling from the pint when their mood demands. Then they do not care of it is a stair case or the main door. Thus use of baby gates at such places is a must. Also watch out if they are overgrowing the crib as they may start out of it anytime.