How to prevent accidents and fears

Year - dangerous age. Parents can not prevent all accidents. If they take too much care of the child and worry for him, he will grow timid and dependent.

On the other hand, most serious accidents are easily prevented if you know the most common hazards and intelligently avoid them. Here is a short list.

Combination of a low armchair with a table safer of a high chair. If you use a high armchair, it must have a wide base so that it can not roll over, a leash to hold the child trying to escape, a latch that does not allow to lift the tray. The baby carriage must have belts if the child has reached the age when he can get out of it. Above, and sometimes below, ladders, including the porch, should be equipped with barriers;they can be removed when the child learns to safely climb and fall. The upper floor windows of the must have grilles or only open at the top.

It's unreasonable to let a small child crawl or walk around the kitchen when they cook. There is a danger that a child splashes with hot fat, that the mother will slip and shed something hot, that the child will pull the saucepan from the stove. Now is the most suitable time for a game arena;The arena can be made from: chairs, laying them on one side. The child's armchair or playpen should be far from the plate. A child can move astonishingly quickly when he wants. Acquire the habit of placing pots and pans

with the handle from the front of the cooker. When setting the table, put the coffee pot or other vessels with hot in the middle of the table. Use the same precautions for kerosene lamps. Avoid tablecloths with dangling edges, for which the child can pull.

To a child who still puts things in his mouth, one should not give small items, such as buttons, beans, peas or beads, nuts or pop corn, because the child can breathe in and choke. Remove pencils and other sharp objects, if the toddler thrusts them into the mouth when playing or running.

Make it a rule to always check the water temperature in the bath, before putting the child on, then remember if you already did it. Sometimes taps with hot water cause burns. Do not touch the electrical equipment yourself and do not let the child touch it while in the bathtub or hold onto the tap. Do not leave pots and buckets of hot water on the floor.

The wiring should be in perfect condition. Teach your child not to pull on the wires and do not chew them. Cover sockets, which you do not use with , with adhesive tape or cover them with heavy furniture so that you can not put a pin in them. Screw in all empty cartridges lamps, if you can reach them.

Hold matches in a closed box somewhere high so that even a decidedly tuned three or four year old child can not get it.

Wells, pools, tanks should be well closed or fenced.

Throw broken glass, open cans into closed hard-to-reach tanks. For razor blades, use a jar with a slot at the top.

Do not allow a child to approach unfamiliar dogs while he is at the age when they can scare him or cause pain.

It's time to hide all the poisonous. One fifth of all poisoning falls on the second year of life. Children at this age, when everything is explored and tasted, eat anything, whatever it tastes. They especially like sweet pills, cigarettes and matches. You will be surprised to read the list of substances that most often lead to poisoning children:

1) aspirin and other medicines;

2) poison from insects and rats;

3) kerosene, gasoline, varnish and cleaning liquids;

4) lead in paint if the child chews anything painted( the paint used for painting objects in the house does not contain lead. The danger threatens from objects outside the house, from a painted porch, doors, windows, from furniture in the house,which was painted when repairing.);

5) lacquer for furniture and cleaning liquid for machines;

6) liquor and other alkaline compounds used for disinfection;

7) pesticides for plants;

8) cleaner for cleaning kitchen stoves.

Now it's time to inspect the house with eagles, or rather, a child's look. Remove all medicines far away, so that you can not reach them. Find safe places for household chemicals, liquids and powders, vaccines and creams for shoes, inks, cigarettes, tobacco, spraying fluids. Keep dangerous substances in separate boxes or on shelves, away from the relatively harmless medicines and condiments that you use in the kitchen so that you can not grab Not in a hurry. Never let your child play with bottles or sachets of medicines and other dangerous substances, no matter how tightly they are closed. Stick on all medicines clear labels so that you do not take advantage of the wrong ones. Stop using rat poison and ointments and powders from insects. Get rid of them. Be careful with empty bottles and jars containing poisonous substances.

Protect the child from frightening sounds and spectacles. A one-year-old child may be interested in a certain subject for a few weeks, for example a telephone, or overhead aircraft, or electric bulbs. Let him touch things that are not dangerous, and get acquainted with them. Sometimes, however, the child is a little scared. In this case, there is no need to draw attention to this subject. It is better to distract a child than to intensify his fear.

At this age, a child may get frightened by suddenly appearing unfamiliar objects or loud sounds, for example folding pictures, which suddenly pop up from a book, an opening umbrella, a vacuum cleaner, a siren, a barking dog, a train, even a vase with rustling leaves.

Do not allow a one-year-old child to enter such subjects until he is accustomed to them. If it is frightened by a vacuum cleaner, do not use it for several months when the child is in the house. Then try to turn it on when it's some distance away.

Fear of bathing. Between a year and two a child can be afraid of a bath because it slides on her bottom, or because soap gets into the eyes, or even because it is scared by the sound of water flowing from the tap or flowing out of the bath. So that the soap does not get into your eyes, soap off with a not so wet washcloth, and when you wash off the soap, do it several times and also not very wet washcloth. There are special shampoos for children that do not cause eye irritation. If the child is afraid to sit in the bath, do not force it. You can try a basin, but if he is afraid of it, for a few months, wipe the child with a damp sponge until he becomes emboldened. Then start with a few centimeters of water and take the baby out before releasing the water from the bath.

If the child resists by the end of the first year, when he is washed off the food from the face and hands after eating, put in front of him a tray of water on the tray, let him splash his hands in the water, and you in the meantime wipe his face with wet hands.