Ensure Your Home Is A Safe And Healthy Space For Your Kids

Your main job as a parent is to keep your children safe and ensure they are as healthy as they can possibly be. Since they are likely to spend most of their time in your home, it makes sense that you should do everything you can to ensure your house is as safe and healthy as possible. Below are some of the best ways you can do just that.

Declutter and clean

The more clutter you have in your home, the more dust will gather and the more likely it is that your children will end up pulling things over and hurting themselves. By decluttering, you can minimize risks of dust allergens affecting your children, and accidents from appening, It will also be easier for you to keep the place very clean, which is so important for good health.

Ensure your windows aren’t drafty

If your windows are drafty, then not only will they be leaking air into your room that can make the place much cooler, which is not great in winter, but they will be letting in more pollen mold, and dust spores, that could make our family sick too. Finding a good replacement window company to install new, draft-free windows, is then, one of the best things you can do for your family. If that is not possible, then using caulking and weatherstripping to ensure there are no gaps where there shouldn’t be is a good alternative too.

Secure blind cords

If you have blinds in your home, you need to ensure that the cords are tied up out of reach of children. If they are allowed to hang loose, they could present a strangulation risk should kids pull on them and start playing around with them.

Install cupboard locks

Placing cupboard locks on any cupboards that contain potentially dangerous things like bleach and other household cleaning products, or medicines, is so important as it will prevent kids from gaining access to them and potentially poisoning themselves. It will also give you much greater peace of mind when your children are playing because you will know they won’t be ankle to access anything they shouldn't.

Remove rugs and carpets

Rugs might bring the room together, but they represent a very real slip and trip risk, especially for young kids who love to run around without a care, not really watching where they are going.

Not only that, but both rugs and carpets are very good at collecting duster, dirt, and allergens in the fabric, and since kids spend so much time on the floor, this can make them sick. Hard floors are so much easier to keep clean.

If you do have carpets, then making sure you all remove your shoes in the house will help to minimize any contaminants getting on the floor, so make sure you buy all of your family a nice comfy pair of slippers.

When your home is safe and healthy, your children will be safe and healthy too, so what are you waiting for?