Anyone know where to get cheap LARGE child fireguard?

pigpen

skintchick wrote: »

Why bother with a fireguard? I don't have one. I just taught my DD not to touch the fire, the same way I taught her about the oven. Children naturally have a wariness of hot things anyway, and fires are easy for them to understand because they look hot, unlike some hobs, for example.

I'd spend the money on something else, personally. But then I hardly used stair gates either. I just prefer teaching children about safety than simply preventing them get near it as one day they will be exposed to it somewhere else and if they don't have the relevant knowledge/skills they might get hurt.

Absolutely.. how are children meant to learn if they are barred from everything. Fireguards also get hot. Grandparents, aunts etc are unlikely to have such things making the stairs and fires etc more of a temptation whereas them just being there they are not. The 1 burn injury my children have had was on a radiator.

I don't have stair gates and have never had a child fall down them. Plug socket covers create a current in the socket actually making them dangerous.. these should actually be banned.

My 17 month old daughter can go up and downstairs safely, knows fires and cups of tea and the oven are hot and not to touch. Candles seem to be a different matter entirely.. she sings to them then tries blowing them out.. most amusing when they are 3ft above her head on a bookcase and not visible to her unless she is across the room!

CAH220865

Trying to find a home for a fire guard where do you live

thetope

when we had an open fire we didn't bother with a child guard and our daughter learned to avoid it successfully. however now we have a wood burning stove it sits further out into the room and if our 18 month old stumbled and put her hand out to steady herself on it or similar, her hand would stick to it. the body heats to 300 degrees or thereabouts - not worth the risk imo, it won't give you a second chance. we went for one of the babydan/lindam playpen thingys that doubles as a hearth guard but they are the £60-£70 ones - was the only thing i could find that would fit around our enormous hearth.