Finding a new home and making your home safe for a toddler

making your home safe for a toddler
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Finding a new home when you have a toddler comes with its own set of challenges, from attending viewings or finding a safe environment for your toddler to live in – parents certainly have their hands full. Thankfully, there are some things you can do to find your dream home, while making your home safe for a toddler too.

Start by finding the right real estate company

The right real estate company will narrow down your search by finding fewer, but more suitable properties to match your requirements, and limiting the number of in-person viewings to those that suit you best. You can look at past reviews, to get a better idea of how each company could help you, but Compass can help because their agents have the use of advanced technology which has exclusive listings and helps you narrow down your search, so you only find properties matching your criteria.

Keeping dangerous items out of reach

When viewing a property as the parent of a toddler, you need to ensure there is a suitable storage space where dangerous items can be kept away from your toddler. This could be a secure storage cupboard, the space to build a locked cupboard, or to install shelves that are safely out of reach. When thinking about making your new home safe for a toddler, make a list of everything such as medicines, household cleaning products, etc, which could be dangerous to your toddler, and plan where you will keep all of these.

Cover up sharp corners

When making your home safe for a toddler, the furniture you already own may be toddler-proof, but when buying a new property, it’s crucial to ensure there are no sharp corners on the fixtures and fittings included with your new home. You should be able to find ways of protecting your toddler from these with foam protectors or silicone strips. This should prevent more serious injuries if your toddler should bang their head while exploring and learning to walk. Also look at where you might install safety gates to prevent your toddler from wandering unsupervised into areas such as the kitchen, where there could be food cooking, posing a higher risk of accidents.

Additional safety gates

While you’re looking at suitable places to install safety gates, the top or bottom of the stairs are the best places, or as close to these areas as possible when making your home safe for a toddler. If you have a patio and fireplace, these are other areas where you might install gates. Toddlers are learning and quickly becoming more active, so just taking your eyes off them for a few seconds can result in them getting somewhere they shouldn’t be. You can reduce the risks and make life easier for yourself by keeping them out of some of the more dangerous parts of your home and garden. The good news is, that if you’ve just brought a new property, you can install safety gates without damaging your walls.

It’s entirely possible to have your dream home whilst making your home safe for a toddler at the same time. You might have to take a lot of safety measures to keep your toddler safe, but it will be worth it.

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