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From Focus on the Family What’s the most dangerous room in your house? For busy toddlers, it’s usually the kitchen . While you’re busy cooking, the best place for a child under the age of three is just outside the kitchen – safe, but within view. Try using safety gates or playpens to keep them away from stoves and kitchen counters. When you’re not cooking, make sure your kitchen is as childproof as possible. Small appliances , such as toasters , blenders and rice cookers, should be kept a safe distance from the counter’s edge. It’s best to keep them unplugged when you’re not using them. Make sure you throw away empty cans and bottles and keep a tight lid on the dustbin. You might also start using the back burners of your stove, and turning pan handles inward. For really curious kids, consider installing a stovetop barrier. Safety locks are a must with active toddlers – especially in the kitchen. And always store cleaning products in a high cabinet. From TODAY, Voices - ...

From Focus on the Family Have you ever had the experience of walking through an open field and feeling the sting of small cockleburs — those annoying thin brown weeds, armed with spines — in your shoes and around your ankles? But there is something interesting about cockleburs. Inside those seed pods are several seeds , and they germinate in different years. If the first seed fails to sprout one year, the second is still waiting in the ground. But if the second one doesn’t take root, there is still a third seed waiting for the year after that. They are the original “ time release ” capsules. How do these cockleburs relate to children? We, as parents work so hard to teach certain concepts to our kids in the hopes some of them are going to take root and grow. But many of those seeds fail to germinate and the effort seems in vain. The good news is that this instruction can be like a time release capsule . It may lie dormant for a decade or more, and then suddenly break through ...