keeping little fingers away from buttons

[thebecster]

Has anyone found a way to protect electrical gadgets from little fingers? My 11 month old has reprogrammed the DVD player so all on screen instructions are in Chinese characters(a Chinese friend is coming over to fix it). He did it using the buttons on the front of the machine, god knows how! We have a VCR lock which stops him posting things into it, but he just loves to press all the buttons, switching it off and on and off and on, not v. environmentally friendly! I remember my sisters used to have clear plastic shields across their Sky box etc. but I haven't found anywhere that sells them... Any ideas?? Ni hao, and thank you!

[Macdog]

I've got a sort of toy barricade (activity cube, VTech tree and assorted others) in front of TV etc.
Slows her down a bit
I have found this on web.
Is it the sort of thing you want??

[thebecster]

Ah-ha Macdog! I think that is the very thing I need! Thank you so much, I'll buy a bunch of them! I too have a barricade of toys but it doesn't slow him up enough - I'm quite a slow-moving person myself and he's a very fast-moving little person. Therein lies the fundamental problem I think.

[AttilaTheMum]

I used one of those right-angled tranparent photo frames when DS was small - the photo bit went under the TV & the stand just covered the on/off button, but we could still use the remote.
Depends on the area covered by the butons & how big the gap under your DVD player is - it won't work if it's too far off the shelf, as the frame will slide out.