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Keeping Your Child Safe
By Cindy Wolf
The next step is to implement safety measures to reduce or even eliminate hazardous situations. It may be as simple as rearranging the furniture or as complicated as getting a correct fit of the car seat in your vehicle. You may need to be creative, but it doesn't have to be expensive.
The final step is to maintain your child's safety "zone." As your child physically and intellectually matures, different hazards will present themselves. Just as a child develops in stages, so does childproofing. As an infant, the stairs are not as much of a concern as they would be when your child gains mobility by crawling and walking.
Childproofing is not a "phase" of raising infants and toddlers, it's a way of life. Even as they grow into young children and teen-agers, they'll still need someone to care for them and watch out for them.
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