Better Safe Than Sorry

Getting Started on Childproofing Your Home

By Leslie Stone

Children inspire us, enlighten us and add warmth to our lives. As parents, we must return that inspiration with love, understanding, education and communication. We cherish our children when they are curious infants and thoroughly enjoy watching them grow and learn. To help them reach their goals, we work to keep them safe through a variety of avenues, and one imperative way is by childproofing your home.

As a mother of three children and a childproofing professional, I know and understand the joys and worries of early parenthood. Therefore, I am committed to informing and educating parents on a vast number of safety issues that will ultimately help save their children's lives. One of these issues is childproofing the home.

By childproofing your home, many avoidable accidents can be eliminated and frightening statistics can be reduced. For instance, 100 children die every day from avoidable accidents, 26 million children are injured in and around the home every year and two million children require medical attention each year from household accidents. These three statistics are scary enough, but there are many more.

So where do you begin, and how do you accomplish the task of childproofing the home? The best answer is to call a child safety expert who is professionally trained to childproof the home. Such an expert will get down on his or her hands and knees to view the unseen dangers that parents may not catch but a child can easily see. The safety expert will give you his or her recommendations of what child safety products are necessary that will eliminate the dangers. You can then choose to have the safety professional do the work for you or you can do the work yourself. Either way, you can rest easy because you will know you are getting the correct safety product for the situation.

Want to see more?

• Safety Away from Home: Tips for Childproofing Other Locations
• Keep Kids Safe: Avoiding the Hazards of Home Remodeling
• Nursery Safety Checklist: Tips for Designing Baby's Room
• Check out our Article Library.
• Talk about it!