Make Your Home Children Safe

Imminent dangers are lurking inside the homes and many parents are unaware of them. How many small children you have read in newspaper or seen in television dead from unsafe home? Not a few. As responsible parents you can avoid these accidents by reading precautions below.

Tips:

1.Place your medicine in a high cabinet and padlock it.

2.Do not place your medicine in your refrigerator.

3.Do not transfer chemicals to other container. A studying student died when he accidentally drank formalin transferred to a drinking glass.

3.Always replace the bottle cap of your medicine very tightly after every use. One child was able to open a liniment containing methyl salicylate camphor and gulp it. He convulsed and brought to a hospital.

4.Do not let your children see you taking medicine. Children learn mostly by imitation. They may follow you and take your medicine when you are not at home.

5.Always secure the placement of your cigarette lighter or match. This is an old warning and yet many houses were burned because of this carelessness.

6.Always close the valve of your LPG gas when leaving home.

7.Never teach your children to operate home air conditioners. Wrongful operation of air conditioner may result to burn out compressor or house fire if circuit breaker will not break.

8.Always unplug television or other home appliances when not in use.

9.Please specify covered electrical outlet when installing yours. You can not discount the creativity of your children and insert metal in it.

11.If possible, do not make a window grill that children could climb. The reason is simple. The may climb it and in the process break their bones.

12.Do not buy a heavy self-folding bed. One toddler played in their upper room with it while her nanny was down stairs. The bed folded so strong and she suffocated and died.

13.Do not allow your children to see violent television program. They may copy the example.

14.Never leave your children alone at home. A mother left his children at their apartment home and bolted the door. When she left, a fire broke out next door and all her children died in the fire.

15.Keep you knives or other pointed tools away from your children.

16.Discourage your small children to play with marbles or seeds of fruits. They may place them in their mouths , ears or nose. This is the same with other small toys. Children below 3 years have the tendency to place everything inside their mouths. Beware.

17.If you are using a big pail to soak you laundry, keep it in a secured place. A child climbed the big pail while her mother had fallen asleep due to tiredness. When she woke up her child was dead in the pail—drown. This is the same with the tub of a washing machine. You should always empty it after every use.

18.If your house is near an empty pit, please secure your children not to go near it. A couple lost their two children for the simple mistake of allowing their small children play near it. The pit was full of water and the two children got drown.

19.If you are living near the bridge, please always secure your gate. Children may wander and fall off the bridge.

20.Do not disregard the warning in the plastic bag of not allowing your children to toy with it. A simple mistake and they will die.

Accident does just happen. It has causes. Accident happens to every one. It may happen in your home if you will not be careful. Avoid needless deaths of your loved ones. Be careful.