In process of development and growing children master more and more space including they at home and also gain life experience. It is important that all these processes were safe for the child.
Irrespective of age and the level of development, it is necessary to hide the following from children: - medicine;
- toxic chemicals and strong substances (essential oils, dietary supplements, etc.); - alcohol and cigarettes; - weapon;
- at desire and a discretion of parents - valuable things and money.
What to hide from children who learn to creep and go
When the child begins to develop actively the world around, his parents need to make this process by the safest - both for the kid, and for the dwelling. First of all it is necessary to remove all fragile and valuable objects from a zone of reach of the child. You should not leave cell phones, laptops and other devices in the available place - the child can not only pull for a wire and drop them on himself that is fraught with injuries, but also to break quite expensive things.
It is important to estimate potential harm from all objects which can appear in a reach zone for the child then to hide the most dangerous of them. For example, magazines - children about one year are capable to tear off a piece of the page and to thrust into a mouth, risking to choke. If at this moment the adult is not near, the similar situation can become hazardous to health and even to the child's life. Therefore books, magazines, newspapers, plastic bags and everything that can become a source of various troubles, it is necessary to lift above or to hide.
Many experts recommend to parents to spend several minutes a day for well to explain to the child possible consequences of any given actions - in this case subsequently it is necessary to hide much less things.
Safety of children of more advanced age
The popular wisdom says: "little children - small bedka", meaning that with growing of children the scale of troubles, unfortunately, can increase. Usually children who were 5-6 years old already understand danger which they conceal in themselves a glass with hot tea, sharp scissors and the electric wire which is sticking out of the earth (of course if parents took care in time of that their child acquired similar things). Thus it is possible not to hide any more scissors and a needle case and also other accessories to needlework (it is natural, if nearby adults who control the events), but, at the same time, came to remove a turn far away some other objects. At preschool age many children quite often begin to show interest in books and can strongly react to what was seen. You should not leave in the available place materials which can do much harm to mentality of the child, for example, magazines and newspapers with descriptions of crimes and the corresponding photos. If in the house there are books or magazines of category "for adults", time them properly also came to hide. Will not be superfluous to check just in case illustrations in books which can be available to the child.
Cosmetics and household chemicals
Ideally, the child by 5-6 years already has some idea of the one who, as well as why uses any given subject. For example, the girl who sees how her mother uses a deodorant not only quite understands the meaning of the events, but also itself is capable to use it if desired. However the child to whom did not explain in time, for whom and for what spirits and powder, ink and lipstick are necessary and also as to use them, maybe, first, to be traumatized, allergic reaction or poisoning, and secondly, to spoil expensive cosmetics.
It is impossible to store household chemicals in tanks from under baby food, sweets or edible products - it can become the cause of poisoning if the kid unintentionally opens a bottle or a box and will decide to taste contents.
Having seen that the child became interested in any subject, it is better to spend a little time for explanations and to show how it is correct to them to use. Otherwise the kid himself will try to satisfy the curiosity, having reached "forbidden fruit". If the child, for example, decides to repeat mother's gesture and will try to open spirits with a spray, the probability that the stream will get into a face and eyes is high. To avoid it, it is better to hide similar objects in advance or as soon as possible to teach the child to use them correctly.