We get it, your babies and toddlers are super adorable, you love them to the moon and back and you’ll do anything in your power to keep them out of harms way. While we don’t sell bubbles to keep the kids in, we offer a surprisingly large selection of baby-proofing products.
Every year thousands of children in America get hurt or even killed in tragic household accidents, many of which could have been prevented with proper child proofing. From furniture tipping to accidental ingestion of household chemicals and strangulation by the strings of blinds, your home can hold many hazards for young children. Danger zone!
Luckily, smart folks at our suppliers have come up with ingenious ways to protect your child. There are some obvious measures you can take like installing baby gates and outlet covers and then less obvious but equally as important ones such as securing windows, blinds and toilets. Browse our entire collection to make sure your sweet child is safe!
We carry various outlet covers in different colors. Some cover the entire outlet while others require you to turn your device’s plug to gain access to the actual electricity.
Windows, while lovely for natural light and fresh air, can pose a safety risk for children. They can become entangled and suffocate in the cords of your blinds or even lean out of windows and fall. Of course you can opt to cut the blind cords (but then how do you adjust them!?) or alternatively use our window blind cord winders to keep the strings out of kids’ ways. Install window stops to prevent your children from pushing them open to the point that they can climb out. Please do not nail them close, you will want to ensure you allow adults and older children to open windows in case of emergencies like fires and floods.
Don’t allow children access to items that could harm them. Secure cabinets and drawers that hold medicine, knives, cleaning supplies and other potentially dangerous things. Granted you may want to stop your darlings from opening cabinets that have perfectly safe items in them, too. Little fingers can easily get pinched by drawers or doors. Blackhawk Hardware offers various clever contraptions to keep those closed.
Another sometimes overlooked danger lurks in your bathrooms. Children’s weight is allocated differently than ours with their heads being disproportionally heavy. So when they peek into toilets, they can actually easily fall in head first, get stuck and drown. Thankfully there is an easy fix for that, too. Come in to Blackhawk Hardware to shop our extensive range of childproofing devices including toilet locks.
