[blparent] Tips on Baby/child proofing your home

Tue Feb 23 20:43:39 UTC 2010

I would even recommend that if you own your own home, remove those horendous 
blinds and put up drapes.
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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC Inc)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
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> They do, I think because people lack day-to-day experience with kids, so
> you truly don't know what is and is not dangerous to a child as they
> develop.
> I had no idea chords were bad.I didn't know this until one of my friends
> told me to move the crib away from the window so "your baby won't tie
> the chord around her neck". My first thought was "When she can tie,
> she'll know not to do that". Even if I'd moved the crib, my daughter
> could have still gotten to the chord crawling around the room, hence why
> they had to be hooked up with some device in the wall, a device I never
> knew existed.
> Baby proofing as we know it has really only been done since the 1950's
> which is interesting to think about, especially next time you talk with
> an older person.
> Please know too that what is "common sense" to you may or may not be to
> someone else and what is "wasting your money" to one family may be what
> they need to do because they lack the time, knowellege or skill set to
> do it themselves. Kind of like hiring a housecleaner or dog walker or
> anything else, we all do what we need to do.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:33 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Tips on Baby/child proofing your home
>
> That is so weird to me, I didn't even know that kind of service existed.
> Like I have said, 100 times before, yuou are so lucky to have a group
> like
> this. V
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC Inc)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Tips on Baby/child proofing your home
>
> You will want gates to keep a kid out of areas where you can't
> supervise, a place to play, and you'll want to cover all outlets and
> make sure all chords are tied up so that they don't pose a strangulation
> hazzard. You'll also want to make sure that furniture won't tip over
> onto your kid if he/she pulls it down and put corner guards on objects
> with sharp corners. You'll want to put harmful chemicals out of reach.
> Mostly though, you want to know your kid because you'll know when
> they're causing trouble or about to by what they say or don't say and
> the sounds they make or don't make.
> You'll want to have trash cans that are out of reach because most of
> what people throw away is just nasty or is harmful i.e. bottle caps are
> a choking hazzard.
> I'll say that we used a baby proffing company mostly because at the
> time, my husband was working an incredible amount of hours and I had
> plans to go to the beach with my family. I knew there was no way we'd
> get the work done because "we" wouldn't be doing it.
> Also, the companies can or should be able to explain the items that are
> really important to be aweare of v. the nice to know about ones.
> That being said, their risk tollerance is very low, and you will need to
> mesh that with your own parenting style. Like all things, the mindset
> can be the hardest to get used to, and changing your behavior can take
> some time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Miranda Borka
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:29 AM
> To: Blind Parents
> Subject: [blparent] Tips on Baby/child proofing your home
>
> Hi,
> We're gathering information on what we can do to baby/childproof our
> home. We're looking for information for children between 0-3 years of
> age.
> Since we don't have the $300.00 or more for a babyproofing expert to
> come and evaluate our home, we're wondering if any of you have any tips
> and experiences of what does or doesn't work?
> Thanks in advance, and have a great day!
>
> In Christ, Miranda
>
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