Additions to your child safety product list
Just a few years ago, there was no product category called “Child Safety Products.” But in the last decade or so, this category has grown significantly and continues to produce new and more innovative products to keep your child safe at home and in the family automobile.
This article will discuss the latest advances in child safety products on a category by category basis.
Child Safety Pressure Gates
When your toddler starts to crawl or walk, a reliable baby pressure gate can be your most important piece of baby safety equipment. These gates prevent a toddler from going from room to room. Today you can choose from auto close pressure gates that locks automatically. These gates provide child-secure latches which feature easy one-hand operation. These gates are available in a large range of sizes, materials, heights and widths. There are gates that are meant to be installed permanently at home and child safety gates that are designed to travel with you and your child. This new generation of baby pressure gates comes with a full range of adaptors.
Child Safety Staircase Gates
Nothing is more terrifying to parents, than the thought of their young children falling down a flight of stairs. The latest generation of child safe staircase gates are designed specifically to secure the top of staircases t keep your child safe. Baby staircase gates are available in a range of materials, lengths and widths to meet the baby protection needs of any parent in any kind of home that has a staircase.
Child Safety Bathroom Products
The bathroom with its slippery floors, hard surfaces and medicines and cleaning materials represents a potential safety hazard for parents of young children. Today there is a long list of products to help you keep your child safe in the bathroom. These products include: child-proof cabinet locks; emergency door lock releases; digital bath faucet thermometers to avoid scalding; baby bath gates to keep child from touching the part of the tub with the hot water faucet; baby toilet locks (you can also use this device to keep your dog from drinking from the toilet); soft foam bumpers for the tub; snap on safety grips for the side of the tub; baby bath mats for better gripping in the tub and many more useful safety items.
Child Door Safety
Doors represent potential danger for young children. Today there is a wide range of door safety products including special bi-fold door slide locks; door flip locks; door holders and child-proof door knob locks; and door jamb stops for doors in your child’s room; there are also zany door pinch guards made in animal shapes.
Child Safety Play Yards
These products pick up where traditional play pens leave off. Bigger and specially built for safety, these protected child play are available for permanent or portable use and come in a number of sizes with either slats or chain link siding for ultimate strength and safety.
Child Safety Driveway Safety Accessories
If you have small children, you need to exercise extreme caution when you back your car out, or pull your car into the driveway. Rollover or back over injuries to young children are unfortunately very common. Now there are products to help protect your child including professional, highly visible, portable driveway safety signs and retractable driveway guards that cut off access of your driveway from your child.
Electrical Child Safety Devices
Your young child does not understand the dangers of electricity. Fortunately, there are many new products that can provide extra protection. These include: child safety outlet covers; deluxe power strip; electrical outlet caps for child safety; electrical cord shortener to avoid tripping; wire-guards for child safety.
Fireplace Child Safety Devices
Fireplaces are beautiful but they all have hard surfaces and hard edges that can present a danger to a curious child. Now, your young child can enjoy the family fireplace thanks to new products that provide fireplace and hearth bumpers to protect young children in case they fall near the fireplace. These items provide soft cushioning in a way that is both safe and visually attractive.
Furniture Child Safety Products
The hard edges and corners of your furniture can mean a nasty injury to your child. Now you can make your furniture child safe with these useful products: furniture corner cushions, appliance child-proof locks, anti-tipping furniture strap; padded crib rail covers; wrap around table pads.
Kitchen Child Safety Products
Kids love to be in the family kitchen. Unfortunately, for a young child, there can be many dangers lurking in the average kitchen. To make your kitchen safer for your child, you can choose from the following products: appliance and cabinet locks in a large range of configurations; refrigerator safety locks, oven front locks; oversized stove knob covers for child safety; stove guards and stove lids.
Really New Child Safety Products
Child safety products are continuously being improved and new products are being introduced. Here are two recent new product entries:
Child Safety Kits
Some retailers are making it easier to choose child safety accessories by preparing child safety kits which include a collection of baby proofing items. For example, one recent kit includes the following:
The answer to many of your home baby-proofing needs in one box! This ultimate collection of home safety items includes: Outlet Plugs Blind Cord Wind-Ups; Cabinet Slide Latch; White Soft Jamb Door Stops; Tip Resistant Furniture Brackets; Safe-Lock Cabinet Latches; Gorilla Door Pinch Guards; Door Knob Covers w/ Lock Guard; Bi-fold Door Slide-Lock
Child Friendly First Aid Kit
If your child does have an accident, it is good to have first aid supplies handy. Several manufacturers have developed child friendly first-aid kits that include the following: Child-Friendly Doctor's Bag, Crayon Bandages, 1/2 oz Eye Wash, Instant Cold Pack, Exam Gloves, Hypoallergenic First-Aid Tape, Sterile Gauze Pads, Conforming Gauze Roll Insect Sting Relief Pads, Antibiotic Ointment Packs Antiseptic Cleansing Wipes, Anti-Itch Ointment One Time use Thermometers, Plastic Disposable Tweezers Cotton Application Swabs, Burn Relief Gel Knee and Elbow Bandages. Some kits contain first-aid booklets and even CDs.