Curtain Lid
 |
16 piece CHRISTMAS themed Bathroom Set Holiday Reindeer SANTA shower curtain, hooks, toilet lid cover, tank cover & contour rug Sale Price: $41.99 Average Rating:   |
|
16-pc. Christmas Bathroom Set This 16-Pc. Christmas Bathroom Set includes a shower curtain, 12-pc. curtain hooks and rings set and a 3-pc. rug set, all for a great price! The shower curtain (70" x 72") features Santa, a snowman, penguin and reindeer sitting in a bathtub getting clean. Hang the curtain with the 6 snowball-shaped hooks and 6 clear rings (1-3/4" x 1-1/2" dia.). The 3-pc. rug set includes a u-shaped rug (22-1/4" x 23") with a snowman, reindeer and penguin on it, a toilet tank cover (15" x 15-3/8") with snowflakes and a seat cover (11-1/2" x 18-1/4") with Santa's face. Made of an acrylic/polyester blend, machine washable. 16-piece Christmas set includes: shower curtain, 12-pc. curtain hooks and rings set & a 3-pc. rug set. Great set to get you in the Christmas/ Holiday spirit! |
 |
Lovely Palm Tree in Oasis 6-Piece Bathroom Accessory set Sale Price: $28.50 Average Rating:  |
Dangers That Lurk At Home For Your Child
In Australia, every year about 300 children die from unintentional injuries and 60,000 are hospitalised. (Kidsafe-Qld)
Child safety is a major concern for all parents. We try to protect our children from the outside world. From strangers, cars and dogs but did you know that the most common place for young children to get hurt is in their own home.
Children like to explore, this is how they learn and develop. But there are many things that are in our homes that are not safe for our children.
Lots of dangers lurk in our homes, many are objects that you would not even consider to be dangerous. To us maybe not, but to someone small who is not capable of thinking about dangers or strong enough to get out of a dangerous situation, it can be fatal.
Check these rooms for major hazards:-
Kitchen- The most hazardous room in the house
* Keep hot drinks away from the edges of benches and out of reach. Pot handles should always be facing to the back of the stove not out over the edge, probably best to cook on the back burners.
* Place all sharp knives in a locked drawer and have safety catches fixed to all low cupboards and drawers. It is good to have a low cupboard that is just for them, where they can hide or have plastic tupperware containers in it. They can explore and play without getting hurt.
* Place all cleaning products up high with lids on tightly and out of reach of prying little people.
* If possible have a guard across entry to kitchen, this way you will know that your child cannot get into anything that can harm him/her.
Laundry-Another potentially dangerous area.
* Cleaning chemicals should be kept up high with tight lids. Out of reach of children.
* Catches fixed on all doors as in kitchen.
* Nappy buckets should have lid on top and be placed in sink out of reach.
* Ironing boards and Iron placed up high with cords wrapped up high also, this could kill a young child if dropped onto his/her head.
Bathroom
* Hot tap water is the most common injury in the bathroom. When setting up a bath, turn the cold tap on first and then adjust the hot water. Turn off hot tap first then the cold. Most children will play with taps and will turn them back on. If you do not turn the hot off first there will still be hot water in the line and it will burn. Another effective method is having the temperature of your hot water turned down which will stop unnecessary scalding and serious scarring to your child.
* Make sure that you empty the bath water when you take your child out of it. A child can drown in the smallest amount of water. Never leave your child unsupervised while they are in the bath.
* All medicines, razors, scissors and nail care products or chemicals should be in a cupboard out of reach or a locked drawer.
Living Area
* All power points should have safety protectors placed in them. Get an electrician to install a circuit breaker if not one already installed.
* Curtains and blinds can be very dangerous because of cords hanging down low. This is an accident waiting to happen. Many children can get caught and strangled because of these cords. Make sure they are tied up high.
* Fire places should have guards to protect little hands. When children are first learning to walk they are not very stable and can stubble into a hot fire in a matter of seconds.
* Remove all heavy ornaments until your child is old enough to understand the dangers. I know that it makes the house more appealing and homely but you have to sacrifice these items for the safety of your child.
* Remove any small objects that may get lodged in the throat and cause choking. This can be buttons from a sewing box or pieces off the end of a pen.
* Keep photo frames with glass inserts out of reach. If broken, they can cause serious cuts to the hands and feet.
* Ashtrays should be emptied and matches or lighters put out of reach.
Check outside, pool areas and fencing, the garage, in the garden, protect them from driveways.
Don't ever stop them from exploring, help them and assist where possible. Good supervision will ease safety concerns.
Children are a very precious gift and to lose them to early in life would be unbearable.
I hope bringing these safety issues out into the open will help you as a parent, to realise just how much danger is in the home for someone so small.
About the Author
Concerned mother and aunty who wants to keep all children out of harms way. I have studied Child Psychology and Children's Services . I have just started a new blog about anything relating to children http://www.kidslot.blogspot.com
I just spilt fabric softener on a new pair of silk curtains...what shall I do to get it off?
I was carrying things into the house from the garage. I didn't know that the lid had broken on the fabric softener and it toppled over and spilt down the newly papered wall and on the curtains. It has cleaned off the wall, and my mum is leaving the softener to dry on the curtains to see what to do with them. Has this ever happened to anybody else? Perhaps not on curtains, on anything. What would you do to get it off?
Thankyou.
Are the curtains washable? If so, remove and wash in multiple changes of plain water ASAP. Do not let the fabric softener dry on the fabric.
If the curtains have to be dry cleaned, take them to a reputable cleaner ASAP and tell them what the problem is.