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How To Keep Kids From Climbing Over A Staircase Banister
It is estimated that every six minutes a child under 5 years old in America falls down stairs and rushed to the emergency room. That adds up to over 90,000 kids, and 90 percent have head injuries.
“What that tells us is that we have much more that we need to do to make the home environment safer for children,” study author Dr. Gary A. Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told The New York Times. “Children under 5 spend most of their time in the home, and […]
The Easy Way To Child Proof Your Banister & Stairs
It seems like children and even cats can find a way to find anything dangerous. When we bought our house, never did I think the horizontal railing on the upstairs banister could be used as steps to climb!
At first, I really liked the architectural look of the railing, but for my kids, it like a ladder just begging them to climb on it, and fall onto the first floor, and it’s right between our children’s bedrooms!
No matter how many times we told them not to climb on the banister, it remained a serious danger. The temptation was just too much!
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