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).

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My children are grown up now, but I now have to childproof for my granddaughter, so am interested to read the tips here. We used to use socket covers in electric sockets, but my daughter tells me they are now thought to be dangerous.

Always put pans on the back burners unless you are using more than 2.
Never run hot water first into a bath. My dad fell into the bath my mum was running with just hot water & spent a year in hospital

A good no trip stairgate is a must for us but our little one has always been such a monkey that he just can't be left unattended!

All cleaning products are kept up in a wall cupboard away from small hands.

Keep everything high up and out of reach. If they can't get hold of it, they can't hurt themselves or anyone else

When my son was little, we had plug protectors in every plug socket and corner protectors on anything that had a corner! Any cupboards that were within reach had cupboard clips on and the stairs had stair gates at the top and bottom. Needless to say it took an absolute age to do anything with all the child proofing everywhere!!

Homeproofing the child was the most important, e.g. teaching safe ways to cope with stairs, what to do/not do with the dog/ the bottles under the sink etc.

Remove any valuable decorative pieces that are easily smashed or cant be fixed down. Nothing is sacred if you have toddlers!

We have quite big windows upstairs which are fairly low also so they have devices fitted to avoid them opening too far preventing anyone falling out! Other than that, we've never had the need to do much else.

Using all the safety nozzles on sprays and bottles.
Also stair gates and cupboard locks.
Keep dangerous products high up.

I had a wooden partition downstairs which I could slide in and out it was the same colour as the stairs my friend made it for me and I just thought it was genius it was also brilliant at keeping the guest from going upstairs snooping in the bedrooms

Use Safety Gates to help prevent falls down stairs and to keep children from entering rooms and other areas with possible dangers.Safety Latches and Locks for cabinets and drawers in kitchens, bathrooms, and other areas to help prevent poisonings and other injuries. Also Window Guards and Safety Netting was used in my house

Not having anything dangerous at grabbing level!

I still cook on the furthest jobs on the cooker because I used to worry that they would burn themselves on the pans. We have mostly got rid of all the baby proofing now ... only the top stair gate to go. They can open it themselves but it stops me worrying that someone will sleepwalk and fall down

Not so much now but we had baby gates all around the house I had to tie the gate with cable tie as they learnt how to open the latch 😂 That was fine until they learnt how to climb over lol.
I also turn my door handles upside down on doors when they learn to open them 😊❤️

Our main things were stair gates, on the kitchen and top and bottom of stairs. Anything chemically stored high up out of reach. Some cupboards we've put locks on to stop them getting in. Apart from that, now much. A few corner guards when they were stumbling toddlers

I know this sounds silly, but i went down to floor level by sitting on the floor and looking at what i could see as hazards, by looking up as a toddler do.

We used (still do on the cleaning product cupboard) cupboard locks which are like a clamp that go over the handles so didn't involve drilling, and found them very effective. It is also granny proof too!

While we've had a massive clearout in our living room since our 16-month old has been on the move, we've avoided a lot of the "traditional" things like corner guards...he's bumped his head on the coffee table a couple of times (nothing minor), but since then, he's just been more careful!

We only used stair gates with our two the rest was common sense and observation

Washing detergents stored on top of fridge out of reach. Luckily my DS has never been one for touching things he's not meant to. The only thing we needed when he was a toddler was a baby gate at the top of the stairs.

child locks on kitchen cupboards and on the bin - because she loves opening it and taking all the rubbish out?!
stair gate, and all precious items moved to high shelves for now

Simple for us. Child gates. God send

Common sense (cleaning products our of reach, water at a sensible temperature, don't leave upstairs windows open, no loose cables for grabbing, pots and kettles away from edges in the kitchen, medicines out of reach, stair gates on stairs) a canny sense of foreboding, telepathy, eyes in the back of my head and I'm good!

Get down on your hands and knees and have a good crawl around. It's amazing the dangers that you see from a toddler/baby's level. Stairgates were always a must. I also used to keep the older children's Lego in there bedrooms out of the way of infants