New Year's holidays - a time when everyone can afford to relax, including the parents of young children. We decorate the house, put a Christmas tree, buy gifts and goodies for the holiday table - and the safety of the child at the time fades into the background.
To feast, not turned into tragedy, it is necessary to remember the main rule of child safety during the New Year celebrations.
1. The main guarantee children's safety - sober and attentive parents. If your house is small children, the best New Year's Eve limited symbolic glass of champagne. In the New Year's Eve it is important to have at least one designated driver among the celebrants, so that in case the need to take the child to the hospital because the ambulance service may be downloaded challenges.
2. Do not store your home firecrackers and fireworks. No matter how many years of your child, the age of reason does not guarantee the accurate handling of such dangerous objects. And firecrackers and fireworks can not be used in the presence of children as adults even experienced something can go according to plan.
If the child has a pocket money and can buy their own firecrackers or fireworks, it is necessary to discuss in advance the potential danger of such a purchase, and agree that the child will not use these without your presence things.
If firecrackers or fireworks are in your home in anticipation of the New Year, they should be strictly out of reach of the child.
3. Do not leave your child alone with electric garlands and candles. The child may by accident or during the game to get an electric shock or cause a fire. And do not place lighted candles on the table - a child can accidentally pull the tablecloth and overturn them.
4. Check that the electrical garlands. If in the chain has broken bulb or some damage, she can hit the child shock or cause a short circuit and fire. In the house where there are young children, the use of electric garland is not recommended: the child can begin to chew or tear it.
5. Do not use glass toys. Even very young children can be creative in trying to reach out to the bright and beautiful Christmas tree toys. And because the tree is better to decorate with plastic toys - they do not look less attractive, but do not fight.
In addition, the child can easily remove the suspension toys, and under it frequently turns out to be a sharp jagged edge of toys and wire to hold the hanger.
6. Do not put a big tree. There are children who are 2-3 years old are able to behave carefully and will not touch a large Christmas tree, but there is a frisky kids who at any age can be in the game and pampering take down the Christmas tree and garlands of all toys.
If you have a real tree, then their weight in the fall it can be very traumatic for the child. But even an artificial tree can cause injury if the baby will pull it towards you. To create a festive mood is enough to put a small artificial Christmas tree out of the reach of children.
Also in stores you can find a lot of alternatives for festive decoration: branches, wreaths, garlands and other floral compositions.
7. Do not let the baby tinsel, "rain", serpentine. These decorations can cause suffocation because a child can get acquainted with them only under constant adult supervision.
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