Need to make my child safe

[Justanotherquestioner]

For various reasons, I can't keep my child safe at the moment. I've got two lock boxes and have locked all medications away and desperately need a knife cage or something.

I don't know where to get this, what shop to go to, what to Google. The box I bought isn't big enough for my big knives.

My child is nearly five has great problem solving skills and zero safety awareness. He plans these things in advance so he does it all within seconds when I do something as simple as put the bins out or pop to the loo.

Stair gates and cupboard locks don't work. Putting things up high don't work. I need something with a lock. Please help!

Would a safe work? You should be able to get one big enough for kitchen knives.

Does your child have SN? I’m assuming it’s more than a general conversation about safety can resolve? Do you have any help or support with this?

What if they cannot see it? My son has sen if he sees it he wants it and will go all out to get it but if its out of sight he rarely remembers it exists

Put a lock on the kitchen door?

Or on a kitchen cupboard.

I need it to try to fit somewhere in my small kitchen. I didn't know if I lockable drawer insert existed.

No diagnosed sen. But essentially, yes. My final straw was yesterday catching him trying to carve his pumpkin but getting an out of reach

Sorry....

Getting an out of reach knife. All I did was pop for a wee!

We have no door on the kitchen. Maybe I'll go to b&q. They will surely have something?

I just feel sick at what happened

www.staples.co.uk/office-supplies/file-storage-and-archiving/box-files/metal-box-file-a4-lockable-290x370x220mm-silver-040011/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_L6LBhBbEiwA4c46um85GJ44l6Vowgovd9XH9L5ECHDhHEWx9L5lPicfCzXabiXLCQK62hoCAT0QAvD_BwE

This is large enough to fit my knives in

Can you lock the knives in your bedroom If you can't find a lock box for the knives..

Ok so maybe like a filing cabinet type thing.
I can shut the knives in my room. For practical reasons I'd rather not.
I'm in the process of fitting locks to my bedroom and office door also

I have a 5 year old who will try to help himself to the scissors to cut things out or has tried to use sharp knives to peel apples before, aren't these explorations normal?

Possibly entirely normal. We have other issues at play.

I've managed to buy a tool box and a padlock to lock it. Sorry for the drama. I tend to panic about this kind of thing

What about a tool box - most of them have the ability to padlock them shut. You can plastic ones in different sizes that are lightweight.

Toolbox is a great idea

How about this?

www.lakeland.co.uk/26712/Kuhn-Rikon-Child-Friendly-Knife-8cm-Blade?src=gfeed&gclid=CjwKCAjw_L6LBhBbEiwA4c46ugj9lHYcjbrjDocxqfuMl-00RjXG8yVY0os2BAuq9S3Rszo__Xwc3BoCkuAQAvD_BwE

Get him his own safety knife, show him how to use it safely and go from there? Will cut ingredients but not people.

Sounds very scary OP, poor you.

My 4yo tries the same. Tbh I'd teach them how to use knives properly and take away any mystery around them. I included 4yo in meal prep etc and now he doesn't try to get the knives because they aren't forbidden.

He does meal prep and has a variety of his own knives

He's a very pragmatic child. He simply sees them as a tool

Is there any indication he intends harm or is he just getting confused about which knives are allowed and which aren’t?

Having his own knives could well be blurring boundaries even if well intentioned

He's never wanted to use a knife as a weapon or anything. He just doesn't seem to understand that children have different boundaries to adults. I don't know how to get him to understand that.

I cant say he won't hurt himself though because six months ago he wanted to be a picture frame and kept trying trying hang himself on a wall. Not in a sinister way but it was scary and dangerous

He just doesn't seem to understand that children have different boundaries to adults

that's really just normal behaviour, we have had to teach 5 year old DS that he must ask adults if he wants to use knives/scissors etc. That these things can cause harm and he's not to do x,y,z without me or daddy or a grown up around.

DS is 7 and DD 5. DH is a chef so our kitchen is a nightmare. You can get lockable chef’s knife cases that should keep everything safe. So saying our two have learnt amazing knife skills, but can’t be trusted not to pull knives on each other…