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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When DC was little I had stair gates and moved chemicals out of the way. DS broke his arm at 3 when jumping down 3 steps. So these were my important child proofs.

Leave a stairgate across the kitchen door long after you stop using them elsewhere, it means you can see / hear them when you are cooking but you don't need to worry about them getting under your feet when you are carrying something hot, touching the oven etc

Stair gates and socket plugs were our main problem areas so that was a must for us

The only child proofing we have are child gates on the stairs top and bottom, and one into the kitchen. Also have child proof catches on the kitchen product cupboards and bathroom products cupboard.

Condoms have been quite effective at making sure no more of the buggers find their way into our home.

Never really did any of that. We had stair gates at the top and bottom but apart from that our downstairs is pretty open plan so I'd know if they were emptying cupboards or sticking their fingers in sockets! I know it's better to be safe than sorry but I think that just locking cupboards doesn't teach them about the dangers. Anything dangerous, such as medical supplies have always been in the highest cupboards anyway. As were Christmas presents

I try to keep the living room minimal,no ornaments, no coffee table
I use socket covers and my Tv Is up high on the wall

i left some non dangerous items out, a vase or whatever on the mantle piece and taught them early on not to touch it. ditto with cupboards, then if we went to other people house it was a lot easier to tell them not to touch things. because they knew things were out of bounds they never went for them. we had a large amount of toys in the living room in storage boxes so they generally enjoyed empting them out and finds 'new' things to play with.

We have always put safety first with our Dc, stair gates and keeping medicines and cleaning products out of reach or locked away. We also make sure that things which could topple easily are secured to the wall ( cabinets , flat screen TVs) some think OTT but safety is paramount and it only takes one time to have a bad accident

get down and crawl around on the floor to see what dangers there are to deal with

Luckily my daughter isn't bothered about going into cupboards or messing with plug sockets so I haven't had to worry too much. We have stair gates on the stairs and on her bedroom and I moved anything hazardous from the cleaning cupboards into a high cupboard which she is unable to reach.

When I had my first child child I got all the child proof mod-cons. The cupboard clips, the wedges to prevent fingers being shut in doors, the little plug coverlets. To be honest by Child number 5 I only kept the stair gate. I never had any accidents in the home but I think it was because I was more mindful and consciously kept checking for safety.

baby gates and plug covers are great, I think cupboard locks are good if you keep any chemicals within easy reach.

We have a stair gate at the top & bottom of the stairs, never leave keys in the main doors, turn off cooker at the mains, socket covers and never lit candles where my kids can reach

Our medicine store is in a cupboard which is high up and out of reach. We try to explain dangers around the house as much as we can and take sensible precautions such as keeping bleach etc out of reach.

Do a risk assessment in every room AND THEN take action

Only way to be sure is don't have kids... :D

We've got a stairgate top and bottom, plus child locks over the cupboard doors where items are stored that could hurt our son. Other than that we've left things alone but we live in a newish build house without many hazards.

I had child proof locks on every cupboard at bottom level that contained anything breakable/flammable/chemical, as well as that I would lock the front door from the inside and put the key on a hook up high next to it to avoid him getting out while I was not looking, something my nephew did! I also had stair gates at both the top and bottom of the stairs and it eased my fears a little, the cat was not happy though!

basic stair gates, nasty stuff up high

Do a safety assessment. Remove anything breakable and things that can cause harm. Child gates on the stairs and at the kitchen. The playpen also keeps the little ones out of harms way. As my Grandmother used to say, keep dangerous stuff out of reach.

We have a lockable cupboard in the kitchen where all cleaning products go.

I thought I had done a good job baby proofing our home as never had any accident with first dd then along came ds and he was into everything! He broke the tv and washing machine in one day by pressing the on/off buttons so much they got stuck. I had to move all dangerous stuff to a high up cupboard and all the room doors had to have the foam bits so he couldn't spam them shut. Also had to lock the front door as he was an escapee at 2 years of age!

I think what precautions you take depends on your child. With our first born apart from keeping cleaning products or anything harmful out of low cupboards which she loved to empty and put back we did very little. Her younger brother however was very different, fast moving, a climber (stair gates were not an obstacle to him) and a nightmare to keep safe. Constant supervision was the only answer and for a time it wore me to a frazzle! Luckily it was a phase that he grew out of .........eventually :)

stairgate and cupboard locks are all you need :)