B2tween Creativity & Safety

Each year, children are injured by hazards in and around the home.
The good news is that the risk of injury can be reduced or prevented

by using child-safety devices and reminding older children in the house

to re-secure safety devices after disabling them.
Most of these safety devices are easy to find and are relatively inexpensive.

You can buy them at hardware stores, baby equipment shops, supermarkets,

drug stores, home improvement stores, on the Internet and through mail order

catalogs. Safety devices should be sturdy enough to hinder access and yet

easy for you to use.
To be effective, they must be properly installed. Follow installation instructions

carefully. Remember, too, that no device is completely childproof; determined

youngsters have been known to overcome or disable them.
Here are some child safety devices that can help reduce injuries to young children.

The red numbers correspond to those on the image following the text.

1. Use Safety Latches and Locks

   

2. Use Safety Gates
3. Use Door Knob Covers and Door Locks
4. Use Anti-Scald Devices

  5. Use Smoke Alarms

To find out more safety devices, please download a pdf file below.

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I read a great article about raising a thankful child, So I will share with you.

This article is by Patty Onderko at www.parenting.com

"I was 7 years old when I received a tiny Christmas present -- about the size of an

eraser -- awkwardly wrapped and covered in tape. My sister's boyfriend, Jeff, was

visiting and had considerately brought gifts for his girlfriend's three younger siblings.

Mine, though, was by far the smallest. I remember opening it up to reveal a miniature

ceramic dog -- a cold, hard nothing that fit in the palm of my hand -- and thinking

how unlucky I was. I gave Jeff my best cold shoulder the rest of the day.

And I've felt guilty about it ever since. Partly because, in hindsight, Jeff's gift was

very thoughtful: I'd been obsessed with my dollhouse, and he had managed to find

one accessory my dream home did not yet have -- a pet. Still, I couldn't look past

the size of the gift to be grateful for the amount of care that had gone into choosing it.
In this, experts say, I wasn't an unusual kid: For distractible, still-developing children

(and that's pretty much all of them), gratitude can be hard-won. While many can be

trained to say "please" and "thank you" beginning at about 18 months, true

appreciativeness and generosity take time to seed and blossom.

"There's a difference between encouraging thankfulness in your kids and actually

expecting it," says Claire Lerner, a child-development specialist at Zero to Three,

a nonprofit organization dedicated to the healthy development of kids and families.

"Raising a grateful child is an ongoing process."
Vicki Hoefle, director of Parenting on Track, a parent-education program based in

East Middlebury, VT (and the mother of five teenagers), concurs: "As nice as it is to

think about having a five-year-old who appreciates and shows gratitude for everything,

the truth is, parents can feel successful if they raise a thirty-five-year-old who

embodies that grateful spirit."

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