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Child Safety Tips: Stoves

Parents have often accidentally knocked scalding hot food or boiling water down onto their children. Children have also pulled pots of hot food down on themselves. While cooking, turn all pot handles away from the stove's edge. Check your pots and pans for loose handles. (Repair or throw away) For added protection, clip a stove guard to the front of your stove. Always keep your hot beverages out of your child's reach. Put it down whenever you pick up your child. If you have a gas stove, check the pilot lights regularly to make sure they are in good working order. Never use any kind of stove to heat your home.

To Prevent Serious Fires and Burns Caused by the Stove:

1. Move your children's cereals and snacks to the cabinet farthest from the stove.
2. Keep the fire extinguisher out of reach of small children, and teach the older children how to use it properly.
3. Remove any curtains or hanging towels that could touch the burners.
4. Never wear loose clothing while cooking.
5. Regularly scrape grease and food from the burners and the broiler.
6. Never use an aerosol can near the stove.
7. Although it seems obvious, people are still starting fires by leaving potholders, towels, |food packing, and recipes on the stove.
8. Many curious children accidentally turn on the stove after grabbing onto the stove's knobs. If possible, slide the knobs off your stove and keep them in a drawer until it is time to cook.

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Child Safety Tips: Refridgerator

If you have small children, don't tempt them with refrigerator magnets shaped like food. Remove all small magnets from your refrigerator and bulletin board. Warn your children against touching cold surfaces of the refrigerator with their tongue or wet hands. No experimenting needed here, they will get stuck.

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Trash

Protect your children from hazards in the garbage by using a child resistant trash can, or keep your trash can behind a locked cabinet. To prevent suffocation, tie knots in plastic bags before discarding. Also, keep your trash bags and plastic wrap in a cabinet with a safety latch. Keep aluminum foil and wax paper boxes out of children's reach; the serrated boxes can easily cut little fingers.

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Child Safety # 5

High Chairs

To keep your child from pushing themselves over, set the chair out of reach of walls, tables, and counters. Never leave your child unattended while they're in a highchair. Make sure the chair is very stable when it is set up. If it is the folding type, it must have a locking device. Never let your child stand up in a highchair or climb in unassisted. To avoid possible tipping, keep other children from hanging onto, or playing around the highchair. As the chair gets older, watch out for torn belts, loose screws, broken joints, sharp edges, and food caked in moving parts. Only use a highchair with a seat belt and crotch strap. A tray is not enough to keep a child in the highchair; Always use the restraints.

Hook-on Chairs

If you use a hook-on chair instead of a highchair, make sure your child's feet can't reach anything. Children have dislodged hook-on chairs by pushing off on table supports and benches. For added safety, use a hook-on chair with a clamp that locks to the table. As with highchairs, always use the restraints with a hook-on chair.

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Q: What steps can I take to reduce excessive humidity in my present home and control window condensation?

A: 1. Recognize that the best way to stop condensation is to reduce the moisture in the inside air.
2. Be sure that attic or crawl spaces are properly ventilated. Add a vapor barrier to cover the earth in the crawl space.
3. Be willing to try living in lower humidity.
4. Eliminate any sources of moisture in your home, which you can control.
5. In winter, provide more controlled ways for moist inside air to get out. Run kitchen or other ventilating fans longer and more often than you normally do.

WINDOWS & CONDENSATION

Q: Do windows cause condensation?
A: Windows are not a cause, per se. They provide a ready medium on which the vapor can condense. But the primary cause of condensation is excessive moisture in the air. Windows are only indicators of excessive moisture.

Q: Why do I see condensation on my windows and gliding doors first?
A: Condensation is generally seen first on windows and gliding doors because they tend to have the lowest temperature of any of the visible surfaces in the house.

Q: What causes condensation on windows and gliding doors?
A: Recall that cool air is able to hold less moisture than warm air. Therefore, when the warm, moist air of the room comes into contact with the cool glass surface, some water vapor that can no longer be held by the cooled air is deposited on the glass.