Weare moving into a home very soon that has a fireplace in the livingroom. We have 4 kids; 9 yrs, 7 yrs, 6 yrs, and 17months. My main concern is the baby. The other kids know the dangers of fire and I wouldn’t expect them to be in as much danger. The baby however isn’t old enough to realize. Of course she will be supervised at all times. I just want to make sure we don’t have any accidents. For parents with fireplaces, how do you kids proof your fireplace? Any tips you could give me would be great. Links to products you have used would be very helpful as well. Thanks in advance!
Best Answer: Either put a gate around it or just use the rubber bumpers for the hard edges if you don't plan to use it much.
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The best thing to do is to only put it on when you are in that area and watch them, but I know sometimes things happen and you are not always looking. My sister has a gate that covers the whole area its a fire place child proof gate. maybe you can google it. I hope this helps
get a fire guard that can be securely attached to the wall on either side of the fire and goes all the way round so curious little hands can’t get behind it
no matter how much you train your other children not to touch,please don’t take ANY unneccesary risks – accidents can happen sooooooo easily..they could be playfully running around or pushing each other and fall near it,they can reach over it to get something on the mantleshelf for example, or hair or clothing can be singed more easily than you might expect just by standing near it ( i’ve done it and i’m older than they are lol)
and i know what you mean by her being supervised at all times, but what happens if there’s an emergency in another room that requires you to move fast to deal with it and you have neither the time to turn the fire off nor take the baby with you? sounds silly? it happened to a friend of mine whose older child fell down the stairs and as she dashed out to see what all the screaming was about and attend to him, she came back to see that her toddler had moved over to the window to look outside having climbed out of her high chair! a new trick she had only just mastered that morning! as far as my friend had been concerned, she had been safely in the chair and in no danger…never mind being left to play on the floor for example…she could easily have touched the fire!
Either put a gate around it or just use the rubber bumpers for the hard edges if you don’t plan to use it much.
I don’t have any children yet but from past experience I would say keep a baby gate up in the room that has the fire place. I would only use the fire place if there was someone close by or set up a play pen to put the baby in. There is little fences that you can set up around the fire place to keep your baby a safe distance from the fire place. I did a little search on google for you because I couldn’t remember the name. They are called Kidco Hearthgate G70 Fireplace gates. http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Kidco_Kidco_Hearth_Gate_G70
This website also has the portable playpens that you can set up and let your baby crawl on the floor. I hope I could help and give you some ideas!
For my toddler I took a real simple measure of safety regarding the fireplace. Real sudden like… I stopped using it. Not until he was 4 anyway.
I don’t live in a shanty cabin on the prairie, so i don’t need it to cook or heat with…so I didn’t use it. it is not a necessity, so better safe than burnt.