Safety of DEAR Children

Children are generally unaware of the dangerous posed by different items and situations. They need special protection and extra guidance in all their activities during the initial years.
Children tend to go to kitchen frequently as the mother is mostly there and the father and older children are out of the house. The child needs attention and the mother is the best source,  so the continuous attempts to enter kitchen. Kitchen, as we all know, has a lot of hazardous activities going on like boiling frying ,cutting ,grinding ,crushing scrubbing etc and an innocent child can grab the knife sweets jar, steaming kettle, the fork ,cups etc. He may try to open boxes or containers and would like to taste what they contain (even pepper ,Red Chillies ,spices etc )
The child enjoys emptying the containers on floor ,mixing their contents, playing with them and may even what harmful things in his eyes or mouth or rub on his body.
Avoid any cooking while holding a baby in your arms as the child may try to jump on to the stove or may feel giddy with all the pungent smell and the fumes .
Avoid holding a hot drink in your hand with a child in your hand ,as a child can in a fraction of a second try to grab the item ,which may scald the child and even yourself.
The table cloth should not be left hanging too low as a child may hold and pull it down, bringing all the dishes down and also hurting himself. Do avoid allowing a child move around freely with a glass, milk bottle in his hand because should the child fall ,the bottle is most likely to break and the broken glass pieces may injure the child's skin and eyes . Never ever leave a child unsupervised in the kitchen and keep all electrical gadgets away from child's reach.
The bathroom is another place where a child should not be left unattended. He may drown in inches of water, get soap in the eyes or pour toilet cleansing fluid over the head or drink it . All these situations can be very harmful. Do not leave children alone even for a few seconds in the bathtub, near a swimming pool ,water bucket or a toilet bowl. They can drown in less time then it takes to answer the telephone or a doorbell
In the bedroom ,the dressing table is very inviting with all its glass bottles and other fancy things . Anything made of glass like nail polish bottle, can break and injure a child. Therefore, do not allow small children there alone. A child can also lock himself in a cupboard or trunk which he cannot open easily from inside. This may be fatal as he may suffocate. Hence, keep all cupboards and trunks bolted.
The study room with it's pointed pencils, pens ,ballpoint pens, ink bottles pins paper clips and other such items can also be quite inviting to a child yet all of these items can hurt curious child so do not leave these items on the table when you are not using them keep them in a drawer.
Do not let the child stay alone in store room workshop or a garage these places are generally full of a variety of potentially dangerous items, tools and gardening equipments. He can get badly hurt in numerous ways. Furthermore as the workshop or the garage is generally at one end of the house, a child's cries for help may not be heard easily inside the house, thus dealing prompt medical attention.
Check that nowhere in the house is an electric socket at a low level a child can insert his finger or even a paper clip etc into a socket and get shock low level showcase should be moved up plugged or cover tightly when not in use.

( Goodwill's A Complete Guide to Family Safety and First-Aid By Dr.Ashwani Bhardwaj)