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3 Tips For Keeping Your Home Safe For Your Family

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Your home should be a place where you and your loved ones can rest, relax, and feel safe together. However, you might live in an area where you feel less than safe sometimes. Or, you may have had a string of break-ins or burglaries in your area that makes you worried about the safety of your home and family. If this is the case, there are quite a few things you can do that will help to keep your home and family protected as well as give you some peace of mind that everything and everyone is safe. To show you how you can do this, here are three tips for keeping your home safe for your family. [Read more…] about 3 Tips For Keeping Your Home Safe For Your Family

Originally posted on September 12, 2018 @ 2:44 am

Summer Safety: 3 Seasonal Concerns

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When raising children you never get to turn off your internal safety alarms, but summer can really send a parent into high alert. Between pools and bees, ticks and grills – something always seems to be threatening your child. What can you do to keep them safe?

Though there’s no such thing as a 100% child proof environment, there are many steps you can take to protect your children. Start prepping now for peace of mind this summer. [Read more…] about Summer Safety: 3 Seasonal Concerns

Originally posted on April 13, 2017 @ 1:48 pm

First-Time Home Buyers Read Here

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Buying your first home is one of the most significant investments you will ever make. There is a long list of things to do before the whole process is complete, and it helps to have a thorough knowledge of what to expect.

Knowledge is powerful. When you understand the process of purchasing a home, you will be able to get the best possible outcome when it is time to sign your mortgage. Take a moment to start educating yourself, and check out these few tips on what to expect when purchasing your first home. [Read more…] about First-Time Home Buyers Read Here

Originally posted on October 16, 2017 @ 9:31 am

Getting Your Home Ready For A Family Expansion

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Whether you’re having a baby, adopting, or letting your cousin move in when he fell on hard times, there are things that you’ll want to do in order to get your home ready. Maybe you’re just having everyone over for the holidays, from now on, and you need to make sure that there is room for everyone to sit around the table for a meal.

There are different things that you can do to make more room in your home, whether it’s temporary room or permanent space for someone that’s going to be sticking around for awhile. The key is to make sure that you make a plan before you get into action, especially if you’re going to need to do some major renovations and get some money in order to do them. [Read more…] about Getting Your Home Ready For A Family Expansion

Originally posted on April 7, 2017 @ 9:01 am

3 Ways To Childproof Your Home

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When it comes to having kids one of the biggest concerns is safety in the home. Parents need to be able to rest assured that they know their little ones are out of harm’s way in the space they live in when they purchase a home.

When children are especially younger it can be a challenge to keep your eye on them constantly and ensuring that they aren’t getting into trouble or injury. Therefore, knowing the right precautions to take in order to not have to feel like they need to be under your constant surveillance is key when it comes to living comfortably in your home. Here are some of the best tips for ensuring that your home is well equipped with the right tools to ensure a safe environment. [Read more…] about 3 Ways To Childproof Your Home

Originally posted on October 10, 2017 @ 1:51 pm

Moth Wars: What You Should Know About Keeping Your Stuff Safe From A Moth Invasion

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At some point in life, we all deal with an Invasion from a pest or three. We live on a planet rich in nature. It’s inevitable. Most of us know to protect our homes from roaches, ants, and mice.

However, there is a more unlikely pest bothering happy home dwellers these days. The moth. They can be a beautiful sight to see until they invade your home. They can ruin your food and clothes and be a general nuisance. [Read more…] about Moth Wars: What You Should Know About Keeping Your Stuff Safe From A Moth Invasion

Originally posted on November 10, 2017 @ 3:03 pm

Creating A Family-Friendly Home

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Whether you already have children, have some coming to visit, or you have a new baby on the way, you need to make sure that you have a family friendly home that is safe for little ones and young ones. There are many things that go into having a safe home, and you also want it to be a home where little ones can feel comfortable as well (a home with no toys is going to quickly bore a child of nearly any age).

You may think that a safe home is just about making sure that little hands can’t get pinched in cupboards, but there is much more to it than that. Here are a few things to consider in creating your family friendly home atmosphere.

Window Safety

One of the important things needed in a safe home for children is the security of the home. There have been too many cases (one is too many) of children found wandering the streets on their own at ages like five or seven. They opened the door and left while a parent or sitter was napping.

Ensure doors and even windows are secured so that little ones stay in the home and stay safe. That could mean adding new types of locks to your doors, and it could also mean investing in some new windows that can make them safer in more ways than one. You don’t want little ones falling out them or getting their fingers slammed in them either.

Babies, Toddlers, Teens, Oh My!

Babies need safe beds, safe bedding, and safe toys. Since they won’t be doing much moving around on their own in the beginning they don’t need as many safety precautions around the home as toddlers do. Toddlers, and babies that are crawling and starting to walk, risk bumps and bruises.

Make sure large furniture is secured so it doesn’t fall on little climbers. Have cupboards child proofed, as well as toilet lids, and make sure to have bumper guards on tables. Teens are better at safety, but you should consider keeping prescription drugs and alcohol locked up.

Your Entertainment Room

Having a family friendly home is about more than just safety. You also want everyone to feel comfortable in your home. Kids want to feel like they are a part of the family, and they want to have kid’s things to entertain themselves with.

You also want to have some stuff that will let your family bond with each other, from movies that are family friendly to board games that everyone can play. It even helps to let your kids, when they’re old enough, have some say in decorating their own room.

Give your home a safe atmosphere that also lets the whole family feel like they can have fun and be comfortable.

Originally posted on October 30, 2016 @ 2:02 am

3 Tips for Keeping Your Kids’ Room Organized

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Although kids are tiny humans, they tend to have a lot of stuff. From clothing to toys, books and shoes, your kid’s room probably looks like it’s always on the verge of bursting at the seams. While you can go in there yourself and straighten things up, this won’t actually solve the long-term problem of helping your child have a more organized room. So to help get rid of this headache for yourself and teach your child valuable life skills, here are three tips for helping to keep your child’s room more organized.

Consider Their Age When Creating Organizational Strategies

While having your kids understand and enjoy cleaning from the day they can pick up a toy would be amazing, this just isn’t a reality. For this reason, it’s crucial that you take baby steps toward organization based on your child’s age. Jennifer Haupt, a contributor to HGTV.com, recommends keeping things simple for children ages 2 to 4, getting creative with children ages 5 to 8, and gradually increasing organizational responsibilities for children ages 9 and up. For each age group, make sure you have the organizational tools you need for success, like toy shelves, bins and buckets for each and every item in the room.
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Originally posted on September 8, 2016 @ 10:11 am

Smart Parenting Means Smart Landscaping

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If you’re a parent and have a home with a yard, then you know that there are plenty of ways that your kids can get into situations with your surrounding landscaping. There are things that can break, things to trip over, branches with thorns, bushes that have tasty-looking berries that will still make you sick, and a host of other things just waiting to become altercations with your children.

So, five aspects of your lawn to pay attention to might include organic lawn care, injury-free decorations and ornamentation, being smart about watering systems, planting non-poisonous bushes and shrubs, and using easy-to-trim designs to keep your workload down during the growing months. [Read more…] about Smart Parenting Means Smart Landscaping

Originally posted on May 4, 2016 @ 8:35 am