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Many accidents in the home don’t just happen. They are often caused by carelessness on the part of adults or curiosity in children who learn by touching, tasting and exploring.
To help prevent them, here are some tips.

1. Keep medicines and household poisons in safe places which can be locked. These include cleaning materials as well.
2. Cover unused electrical outlets. Children are prone to insert knives, forks or pins into them.
3. When cooking, turn handles of pans and pots towards the back of the stove.
4. Wipe off spilled liquids and grease on the kitchen floor immediately.
5. Keep matches and lighters away from children.
6. Prevent children from playing ball near glass windows.
7. Make sure that garden fences and gates are free from protruding nails. Rusty nails compound the gravity of the wounds.
8. Nasty cuts may result from carelessly thrown open cans and broken glass that are not swept away.
9. Embers of backyard rubbish fires should be properly put out. They are sources of burned feet and bigger fires.
10. Never use thin plastic sheeting in the baby’s cot or bed. If it comes loose it can stick to the baby’s face and cause suffocation.
11. Remove or sew on firmly all loose buttons and other decorations on children’s clothes. Children have been known to swallow or inhale such small objects as pins, buttons, and ball pen caps.
12. Never pass hot drinks, soups over person’s head.
13. Never store harmful liquids — (kerosene, poison, etc.) in soft drinks or milk bottles. Children often drink the contents by mistake.
14. Don’t allow children to play with spray cans containing pesticides, lacquers, etc. Children may spray the contents on their faces and skin.
15. Half-empty bottles of medicines should not be left lying around the shelf. Flush the contents into the toilet bowl or wash out containers out of doors.
16. Teach children to put away their toys after playing with them.
17. Keep stairways free from clutter. Safety gates are good pre-cautionary measures when there are toddlers or crawlers in the family.
18. Pets should be trained not to lie in half-dark places where people can trip over them.
19. Keep step-ladders and all reachable objects from adventurous toddlers. Make sure that they understand these are restricted.
20. Drowning accidents can occur inside the home. A small child needs only a small amount of water to submerge his face for this to occur.
21. Never leave a baby or a small child unattended.
Although it is difficult to anticipate the movements of a small child, parents should follow these tips to keep everyone happy and to ward off accidents.

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