I have a patio outside my back door. It is very dirty - it is black but the stone underneath is a sandy/pinky sort of colour.
My mum has been helping me clear the place up as we haven't been here long. Anyway, she has been using a wire brush to scrub the little patio and bits of wire have come off the brush - these pieces are about the length of a staple say so they are quite hard to see to pick them up (there are quite a lot of them). My youngest DC is 13 months and she can't yet walk so spends time sitting/shuffling on her bum. I am really stressed out that she is going to get these nasty little wire pieces in her clothes/mouth etc and I don't know what to do. Best I can think of is to vacuum the patio.
Will these little pieces of wire harm her if she accidentally swallows one? How shall I try and make sure there are none left there? Any remaining ones could have gone into the grass around the area as well.
Perhaps I should have posted this in mental health! I feel embarassed to have written it down . But I do worry a lot about my DCs (3 and 1) coming to some sort of harm accidentally like this because I have failed to protect them properly.