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Child-proofing a home, age by age

Child-proofing a home, age by age: the structure is what makes it useful: a page per age band (0-6 months, 6-12, 1-2, 2-3, 3-5, 5-8, 8-12) listing exactly…

This launch guide maps the topic, the source base and the practical questions. Check the linked official authority before acting on a rule, deadline, price or safety requirement.

What this guide covers

The structure is what makes it useful: a page per age band (0-6 months, 6-12, 1-2, 2-3, 3-5, 5-8, 8-12) listing exactly what changes when the child can roll, pull up, walk, climb, unscrew and reach a worktop, and a page per hazard — furniture and TV tip-over anchoring, blind and curtain cords, window restrictors and balcony rails, stair gates, button batteries, high-power magnets, water-bead toys, nappy-bag sachets, dishwasher tablets, laundry capsules, hobs and oven doors, kettle flexes, bathwater temperature, a garden pond, a dog.

Each hazard page gives the injury mechanism from published registry data, the fix, and the poison-centre or emergency number per country.

How to use it

Use Child-proofing a home, age by age to understand the inputs, units and assumptions before relying on an output. A useful result should be reproducible from the named source rather than presented as an unexplained score.

The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.

Search vocabulary in four languages

Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.

Evidence and provenance

The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.

Source: EU Safety Gate injury alerts (open, reuse permitted), US CPSC anchor-it and button-battery guidance (public domain), national poison-centre data. · checked 2026-09-09

Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.

Scope and boundaries

/more/kits is what to keep in a first-aid kit; this is removing the hazard before it is needed.

Connected TempoLife guides

The following paths are the intentional hand-offs named in the brief. They keep adjacent subjects separate while making the next useful reference easy to find.

Why it belongs on TempoLife

/more/baby and /more/child-growth.

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