Make Your Home a Safe Place For Your Toddler.

Let your child enjoy his achievement to crawl and walk by giving him a safe environment at home.

There comes a time when the child cannot be made to sit with toys. There is always a fear that he might land into trouble as he crawls or takes a step forward. This is also the time when a child curious to touch, see and feel the things around. So make sure your child gets the opportunity to explore and remain safe at the same time.

Reshuffle your drawers: A child loves to go through the things in low lying drawers and areas he can approach. Stuff them with harmless objects like handkerchiefs, towels or potatoes etc. Remove all small or dangerous things he can put in his mouth.

Rearrange the house: Redo the ambience of the house. Remove sharp edged furniture, tuck way decoration pieces, create open space to move about freely.

Lock away dangerous areas: Block the stairways, apply child locks on washrooms, refrigerators etc. so that you don't have to keep stopping your child or fear his safety. The most potential danger lies in electric sockets. Apply a duct tape or close the sockets so that the child cannot poke fingers.

Remove the dangerous objects: It is very important to stack the things like cleansers, bleach, chemicals, medicines, alcohol, sharp implements like garden tools, knives, scissors etc. locked away.

Choose the right toys: Don't give toys with small particles as the child may choke on them. At the same time don't give things like strings, polythene bags, or coins to play with as it may lead to suffocation. Always supervise the child and at the same time give him freedom to explore.
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Mrs. Sudha Gupta is an educationist par excellence and a visionary with a difference. Her expansive vision encompasses children, parents, teachers and the society as a whole. ‘To create a better world' is precisely how she explains her vision.

She has done extensive work in the field of education for the past 11 years. As the chairperson of 15 branches strong chain of preschools known as Mother's Pride, she has propagated the concept of holistic education that focuses on overall development of children namely academics, life skills and talents. To bring the concept of holistic education to formal education, she established Presidium with a unique vision of ‘Be what you want to be'.

Being a renowned educationist herself, she knew that only happy and motivated teachers could make her vision a reality. This led to the conception of ‘The Knowledge Tree', an academy which imparts new age expertise and skills required in teaching and school management. ‘Leaders in education' and not teachers is what she aims to produce.

Sudha Gupta is also one of the nation's most sought after parenting expert. As the chairperson of Mother's Pride chain of pre-nursery schools and Principal of Presidium Senior Secondary School, Sudha Gupta uses her 11 years of experience of dealing with parents and children to pen down some inspiring tips of positive parenting. She has conducted research on thousands of children and parents to reach some very effective methods of parenting. Sudha Gupta has written more than 1000 articles on the subject of parenting in leading newspapers and magazines like Times of India, Hindustan Times, India Today and Femina. She has authored several books on early childhood education and parenting, Celebrate Childhood and Jingling Rhymes to name a few. Her seminars, publications, T.V. and radio programs on parenting have transformed thousands of parents of Mother's Pride and Presidium, her staff of more than a thousand members and over a million of readers and listeners.

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