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Originally Posted by Slow Triathlete
... plastic bins that fit under my side of the bed and maybe the guest bed as well.
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I raised two kids to adulthood and mostly raised two more step kids. They survived my best and worst decisions, FWIW. Now I learn from the state of Rhode Island that some of my safety efforts were probably hollow and wasted. They may have lived in spite of me. Turns out it is pretty hard to kill your kids by letting them ingest your tobacco:
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Most (81 {90%}) of the exposures were reported by parents, and 88 (98%) of the exposures occurred in the child's home (Table_1). Symptoms were reported in 30 (33.3%) of the children and included spontaneous vomiting (up to four episodes) (26 {87%}), nausea (two {7%}), pale or flushed appearance (two {7%}), lethargy (one {3%}), and gagging (one {3%}). Thirteen (14%) of the children had been taken to a health-care facility. All 30 children recovered fully within 12 hours."
I am not irrationally opposed to 12-hours of pale, vomiting, lethargic, gagging babies; it's not the end of the world having to clean kiddie-barf from carpets, bedspreads, walls and the like. Nevertheless, you may wish to reconsider your jars-under-bed strategy in favor of a more secure alternative. From six-months on kids always find miraculous ways to get into stuff. They also will emulate your behavior, to wit: if you get the stuff under the bed and open it up, so will they. Sooner or later.
Inexpensive, locking two-drawer filing cabinets are small, multi-use handy thingies. Top drawer for checks, bills and papers; bottom drawer for Penzance? For example.