Developing New Child Safety Habits

04.07.2011

A recent UK sur­vey found that only one in seven par­ents tie up their win­dow blind cords, only one in five strap their child into their high­chair and only four in ten par­ents move hot drinks out of reach of small children.

Did you know that a mug of cof­fee is hot enough to scald a tod­dler 15 min­utes after it’s made? Or that a tod­dler that falls from a high­chair can suf­fer brain dam­age? Did you know that five chil­dren have died in Ire­land in the last five years due to stran­gu­la­tion in win­dow blind cords?

 What could we do to pre­vent acci­dents? Con­tinue Reading

Tips For Child Proofing Your Home

17.03.2011

Crawl­ing around on the floor is actu­ally the first thing par­ents should do when child proof­ing their home.

Get­ting down on your hands and knees, crawl­ing around your home and look­ing at every­thing around you will give you a child’s per­spec­tive and open your eyes to the dan­gers and haz­ards. Do this before your child begins to crawl and you will have time to make your home safe. Con­tinue Reading

Window Blinds & Young Children. What Should I Know?

11.06.2010

Aaron O’Connell

As par­ents and child­min­ders we are all too much aware of the dan­gers to our chil­dren through­out the home. We can’t wrap them in cot­ton wool but we can take steps to put our minds at ease. Con­tinue Reading