Your Room-By-Room Guide to Childproofing Your Home

With potential dangers luring around every corner, childproofing your home can be a challenge. This guide is a good start to keeping your little ones safe.

Bedroom

Make sure the crib’s mattress is firm and fits tightly so that there’s no way for your child to get stuck between the mattress and the crib. Use a fitted bottom sheet specifically made for your crib, and keep all pillows, stuffed toys, blankets and bumper pads out of crib.

Bathroom

It takes only a few inches of water for a child to drown. Never leave a baby or young child alone in the tub, even for just a moment. Keep everything you need for bath time, such as soap and shampoo, within arm’s reach.

Stairways

Look for safety gates that can be screwed into the wall and meet current safety standards.

Laundry room

Kids might mistake brightly colored detergent pods for candy. Keep the contain stores in a locked cabinet.

Living room

Mount flat screen TVs on the wall and keep top-heavy furniture like bookshelves secured to the wall with screws. Use outlet covered and outlet plans to protect kids from electrocution.

Dining area

Keep your child’s highchair far enough away from other surfaces so that a baby can’t touch them with his or her feet and tip over. Use the safety straps – yes all of them – every time.

Kitchen

Use your stove’s back burners only and keep pot handles turned in. know where your child is when you’re walking with hot liquids so that you don’t trip, install safety latches or locks on all cabinets and drawers.