Share your tips for childproofing your home with Fairy Non Bio

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Babies and toddlers are often curious about everything they can get their hands on, making the process of childproofing a rite of passage for most parents. Fairy Non Bio would like to hear your tips for childproofing your home.

Here’s what Fairy Non Bio has to say: “Cleaning products are easily found by little explorers and it is our passion to keep all children safe. We have designed new child lock pack systems for our 3in1 PODs to make it difficult for them to get into, but we still want to spread the word to click close the lid and store up high. We want to know what else could help keep kids safe!”

Do you find it best to have stair gates in the doorway to every room? Do you have an alternative for once your child works out how to use your cupboard locks? Perhaps you know a way to get corner guards to stay on your tables even though your child attempts to pull them off? Whatever your childproofing tips, we’d love to hear them.

All who share their tips for childproofing below will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

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Stair gates are useful but the cupboard door contraptions never worked. I generally taught them about not touching dangerous items rather than preventing them from getting to it so they ignored it.

Socket covers and pan handles always turned in on the hob.

Keep anything dangerous up high and out of reach, children seem to be better at undoing child proof caps and child locks than many adults.

As well as the usual purchased safety products, my husband made door barriers that slotted in and out of doorways to keep them in or out of the rooms we wanted to.

Well so far we've changed the living room around so there is much more crawling/walking area and less (useless as it turns out!)furniture, and she can use the sofas to pull herself up & practice walking! We've installed stair-gates upstairs and downstairs and just made sure there isn't anything dangerous on her level, and as she's growing we are adapting everything really!

When I was a childminder, we were advised to get down to a crawling baby's level to spot any potential hazards. It's very effective, it's surprising what you can miss when you are used to looking at things from an adult's perspective.

Secure front door locks
Window locks
Electric socket plugs
Anything dangerous stored high up (knives, medicines anything chemical)
Keep low services clear

Install electric socket protectors around the house, the type that are harder for toddlers to pull out.

One of our tricks is that we used masking tape to draw a line on the floor about 30 cm from the kitchen cupboards. We told Leo this was a zone where only bad guys go and that anyone who stepped into this zone would transform into a bad guy. So far he has willingly stayed behind the line meaning that we don't have to worry about him opening cupboards or trying to reach anything on the worktops.
I'm sure at some point he will realise and will want to cross into the bad guy zone but so far, so good!

I like to have them foam attachments on doors that stop them from fully closing. It means they can't trap their fingers in them!

Honestly aside from all the normal safety things (stairgates, plug covers) I found another way to ensure we had everything covered by getting down to my daughters level when she crawls and then spotting any potential dangers then! The best way is too try and think like a baby, and act accordingly. I realised by doing this we had a unstable book unit when I pulled against it as a baby would! It wasn’t obvious to the naked eye and only actually being at that level made us realise! It’s well worth doing x

stair gates

To be honest it's been a nightmare here. Tried the sticky magnetic cupboard locks. He pulled them open within days. Now we've just emptied the bottom cupboards of most stuff .

Stairgates another annoyance. Plasterboard walls. Managed to screw one at a weird angle from the banister to a door frame to avoid it. Need one downstairs now though. Tried a pressure one. There's now a big hole in our downstairs hall wall.

If only there was a 'baby proofing service' i could hire. I'd definitely pay for it.

We totally reorganised our storage, but one thing we didn't think of was the wine rack.
Don't be like Grannybiker
Move your wine!

Childproof locks on cupboards, a stair gate is a must, corner protectors and not to have glass or ornaments in reach and also to make sure all chemicals are in a secure, safe place

we moved everything upwards, includig china and technology, we put childproof plugs every where and cupboard locks on

It was so difficult to child proof the house for my now, 15 year old Grandson, at 2, he even managed to get to the top of a huge American fridge freezer to eat all his fish oils, he could unlock the front door before he could even walk, we had all the usual child locks and baby gates up, but the only way to ensure he kept safe was to never leave him alone in a room, EVER !, really hard work but he now a lovely intelligent 15 year old who has just finished his higher tier GCSE's

A stairgate at the top of the stairs, but apart from that we have just ensured anything particularly hazardous (chemicals etc) is in high cupboards and hard to reach. The main thing we try to do is supervise and play :)

Stair gates and keeping everything high up!

No delicate objects are low enough to be vulnerable! Medicines are locked in a cabinet away from harm. Sweets and unhealthy snacks are also hidden so they don't get used to helping themselves.

Can’t go wrong with stair gates and cupboard locks

We have a stair gate at the top of the stairs, doors that children can't open downstairs (we have a old house) and cupboard locks on kitchen doors. Window catches on upstairs windows, high shelves in the bathroom, book shelves screwed to walls...

Cupboard locks on all the cupboards, medicines and cleaning stored in high cupboards. Baby gates on stairs. We also cut off all of the cords on the blinds. Makes it difficult to open them but a lot safer. Xx

I have stair gates to the kitchen and top/ bottom of stairs, door stoppers on certain doors and the cleaning supplies cupboards and drawer with the sharps in have been childproofed, beyond that my house is ok, anything else that could cause harm ous either well out of reach or is shut away when not in use.

I child proofed my house with stair gates top and bottom and across the kitchen. I put covers over the sockets. Locks on the kitchen cupboards, toilet. Also i covered the corners of the tables and units.