Creating a Safe Home Environment for Your Children

 

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When you have children, your world changes. You have to change all sorts of aspects of your day to day lifestyle and routine to ensure that you’re giving them the best upbringing you possibly can. From moving home to be close to family and friends for support or to be within good schools’ catchment areas to altering your working hours, social life, diet and more. Of course, one area you may have to change is how your home is arranged, as this can help to create a child-safe environment for your little one to grow up in. Believe it or not, there are all sorts of threats in the average house that could prove dangerous for children, and it’s important that you take steps to remove them within your own living spaces. Here are some suggestions that will help you to achieve this!

How To Feel Safer In Your Own Home

 If there is one place in the world where you deserve to feel safe, it is your own home. But there are so many things that you might need to focus on in order to ensure that you do feel safe there, and unfortunately it is not always that straightforward to make this a reality. Nonetheless, as long as you are happy to focus on a few key things, you might find that you can much more easily make this happen. In this post, we are going to take a look at how you might be able to feel safer in your own home in no time.

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Boasting The Best Possible Home For Your Young Family

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Before we even make the move into the world of purchasing a house. We’ll run through all of the details that we’re going to add – all of the cute design and the personal touches that match our personalities. We often get ahead of ourselves and start to get lost in the idea of customising our new abode. Something that can sometimes get lost in all of the wonders is the responsibilities we have as grown-ups to keep things safe around us – and that becomes even more significant as our kids come into this world.

Simple Ways to Make Your Family Home Safer 100%

It’s easy to overlook the safety features of your home if you’ve never experienced a burglary or break in. But why wait until something terrible happens before you take action? That’s not the way it should be, so maybe now is the time for you to find ways to make your family home safer than it’s been for a long time. Read on now and learn about some of the most simple yet effective ways to make your home safer.

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How Healthy is Your Home Really?

Home might feel like the safest and coziest place in the world, but actually there are lots of ways that it could be affecting your health. When we spend so much of our free time at home, it goes without saying that this needs to be a safe and comfortable place, and so here are some things to consider.

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Getting Winter Ready

With all this bad weather we're having at the moment, it makes me realise just how unprepared I am for it. Thankfully we are not completely unprepared, we have a snow shovel and gritting salt, but they're not always easy to find in a garage that's over flowing with so many other things. Every time we get snow I say we need to be more prepared. But by time we get round to doing anything about it the snow has gone and we forget we need to get organised and move onto something else. But we are now on day 6 of snow and are set for more next week.

It's crazy how everything comes to a stop the moment we get a bit of snow, when other counties cope with it for weeks and months on end. But that's just it we don't have it for very long so never feel the need to put measures in place to cope with it. I'm certainly not about to go out and buy new winter tyres, as no doubt we'll have spring type weather in a couple of weeks, that's just how it is here in the UK.

Home Safety Checks That You Need to Carry Out

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Our homes are our pride and joy. They are the space where we raise our families, spend our free time, and keep all of our belongings. So we want to ensure that they’re in good nick at all times. Believe it or not, the standard family home can become a pretty dangerous environment if you don’t maintain it properly. So, in order to prioritise your family’s well being and protect your property and belongings, you need to be on top form. Here are a few home safety checks that you need to regularly carry out to ensure that everything is working properly and your home is safe and sound!

Home Safety: Protecting Yourself From Burglars

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No matter how impenetrable we think our homes are, burglars are always finding new ways to break in. As anybody who has had a burglary knows, your possessions are not the only things that matter. Knowing somebody has invaded your personal space is going to leave you feeling paranoid and unsafe for weeks and months to come.

You Don’t Need To Wrap Kids In Cotton Wool To Keep Them Safe

If there’s one thing mums fear the most, it’s something bad happening to their little ones. Whether it’s an accident or illness or a bully or home intrusion that you worry about causing your child harm, you can’t wrap your little ones in cotton wool forever. Your children need to have the space to grow and explore the world around them; they have the right not to be mollycoddled.

As a parent, it’s completely normal to worry about your little ones, but what you don’t want to do is let your fears stop them from having a happy childhood. The good news is that to keep your little ones safe you don’t need to wrap them in cotton wool, you just need to take some precautions to safeguard them, that’s all.

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Making Your Bathroom Baby Safe

Having a baby is hard work on poor Mum. If you’ve recently given birth then just moving around your home can be quite uncomfortable! And if you’re determined to keep in physical contact with your newborn at all times, then your body is in for an even bigger challenge. Safety is essential for both you and your little one. No room can be more dangerous, or more difficult to manage than your bathroom. Here are just a few of the ways you can keep everyone safe and happy:

Not A Spa

When you have babies and toddlers around the house, it’s probably best to shut your spa down for a little while. This means no potpourri, candles or scented sticks, I’m afraid! Anything that can be grabbed will be grabbed, and if these things end up in their mouths, it can be very dangerous.

Our bathrooms are also home to our most prized bottles of foam bath, essential oils, and shampoos. None of these have safety caps, but all could poison your child. If you have bathroom cabinet or cupboard, it’s best to make sure all these items are shut away. You can use child locks to make sure the doors stay shut. Don’t forget to take everything down off shelves if you’re holding your baby at all times. They can reach where you can.

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Summer Fun And Sun Safety For Kids

We all want to enjoy the sunshine, and watch the pure delight on our kids’ faces as they run on the beach, but you can’t stop hearing those pesky warnings about the dangers of sunburn and skin cancer. The truth is, the sun is an essential source of Vitamin D, which is crucial for developing healthy bones, and it can help fight depression; in short, it’s not evil. However, too much sun can cause damage to skin, and no parent wants to see their child suffer through sunburn. The only solution, therefore, is compromise. Here are a few ways you can let your children enjoy the sunshine, without risking UV damage.

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Protecting Your Kids From Hidden Dangers

A Mummy's job is to provide and protect, and there are plenty of things that we go out of our way to shield our kids from. Such as unhealthy food, running onto a busy road, and dangers like sharp objects. But there are some things that are less obvious than these, but can still be dangerous to our little ones. That is why it is essential to identify any hidden dangers in the home and deal with them before they become a problem.

Water hazards

Now, one of the biggest hidden hazards in the home or garden tends to be water. As adults, we think of a bath or a pond as a very small body of water that pose no risk to us. But of course, this is not the case for children. In fact, accidents can happen even in the smallest amounts of water, so is very crucial that you are aware of this and take measure to avoid any problems.

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My Baby Nearly Drowned in the Bath

This evening was a normal sort of evening. I hadn't long been home from work and it was just me and the little man like most nights. It's not always easy doing things alone night after night, but I just get on with it and it's nice having some mummy and baby time. I decided tonight would be bath night. I'm not a huge fan of bath night as I have a baby who likes to climb and hates being changed and dressed, but needs must and he enjoys it while he's in there.

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