Share your tips for childproofing your home with Fairy Non Bio

[JustineBMumsnet]

This activity is now closed

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

Standard Insight T&Cs apply

at the moment it's only gates on doors that we have to worry about

We had stair gates top and bottom as stairs very steep. Put poisonous things like bleaches and laundry stuff high up. None ever bothered with plugs or cupboards. Oven buttons an issue so always turned off at wall. Didn't worry about corners too much. Outside doors always locked and no dangly things.

A stair gate was invaluble when my son was smaller - especially given he sleep walked :o

Moving dangerous thinks out of reach where possible. Stair gate on the stairs. I found door locks for kitchen cupboards didn't work - they were figured out too quickly so in the kitchen it's a case of constant supervision.

My twins though safety gates were a challenge - they used to climb on top of each other to get over them! I even had to rearrange the funrniture in their bedroom, as I peeped in one night to find they had climbed from the beds to the bedside table, then onto the tall boy and were just reaching the top of the wardrobe!

One of them also learned to get round the parental contols on his computer at a very young age - he works in IT now!

Basically, I just had to watch them like a hawk at all times.

Stair gates here to keep dogs separate and store cleaning materials in the utility room which is always kept shut. I make a point of turning nozzles to off and clicking lids shut properly.

I have safety locks fitted on windows, stair gates at the top of the stairs and bottom and also keep household cleaning products and medicines like bleach, washing tablets and paracetamol in the cupboard above the sink out of reach to them (very paranoid about the children having access to this cupboard!)

Stairgates are important at both top and bottom of stairs, cupboards with cleaning products or anything harmful must have child proof locks too. Sharp edges also need looking at

No ornaments and strict enforcement of rues about behaviours that are and are not acceptable.

Stair gates at top and bottom of the stairs and on the DCs bedroom door (to stop nighttime wandering!).

All cleaning products and toxic stuff stored in high cupboard.

Anything dangerous locked away.

So many stair gates in the house, wishing we had a bungalow

stair gates top and bottom of the stairs, i also have one going into the kitchen so i can control which room the kids are in and if i am dishing up tea i dont want them under my feet with hot pans etc. I also have door locks on the kitchen cupboards to keep them away from dangerous things like cleaning products etc

So glad we're out of this, found stairgates, cupboard locks, and just generally moving everything out of sight and reach invaluable, and constant vigilance!

I have the plastic covers for plug sockets, a stair gate and child locks on the kitchen cupboards but not much else, just supervision!

Cupboard locks on the cleaning cupboard door, stairgates, and eyes everywhere!

invite a child round who is a few years older than yours and see what they can reach etc to test your child proofing

have chemicals high up and locks on tool cupboards

change your water temp so no matter how long your hot tap is on it won't burn your child

put a bell on the door or certain rooms or exits to alert you to your children accessing it

Cover the basics - Cupboard locks, stairgates and keeping wiring and plugs out of reach or covered!

Stair gates.stair gates. stair gates. We have 6 in our house! They've been up for 4.5 years. I can't wait until the day we can get rid! Our child is a monkey so they'll be up for a while longer 😩

We had a stair gate and locks on the cupboards.

lots of cupboard locks

Do you find it best to have stair gates in the doorway to every room?
No, we have a stair gate at the top and bottom of the stairs only.

Do you have an alternative for once your child works out how to use your cupboard locks?
We have child proof locks and dc shows no interest in searching in the cupboard currently

Perhaps you know a way to get corner guards to stay on your tables even though your child attempts to pull them off?
We don’t have them and have never needed them.

My main concerns are making sure all plug sockets are blanked off so nothing is poked in them.
All doors are either fixed open or closed so that fingers get chopped off in the gap.
All bottles have child proof lids on them.
Baby is never left alone in the bath or paddling pool.
I try to use common sense and if a chair has safety features I use them.
If I have to leave the room I either take baby with me in a wearable harness or use the playpen.

Never managed to make corner things stay on and my DS has injured himself on the coffee table twice. No more, we now physically put it away during the day and take it out after bedtime. Tbh that’s better as it means we don’t leave hot drinks around, we’re either holding them & hence very aware of them, or they’re well away.

Similarly I block the edge of the dining table with the chairs. Having something physically in the way seems to be the only thing that works.

We have a stairgate on the kitchen which is shut whenever we’re cooking and one on the top of the stairs which is shut at night, just to make sure they don’t sleepily go the wrong way.

Lots of cupboard locks as well, my children must be unimaginative because they’ve never really tried to unlock them!

We thought by buying a bungalow this would help. In fact it made things worse as the little one could explore everywhere. So we now have shares in a stair gate firm.

normal things in my house really. Baby gates, covers over plug sockets and padded corners on the edges of tables