When you have a baby, safety suddenly becomes a major priority. If you?re like most parents, you go looking for the best ways to guard against accidents, injuries and trauma of any kind. The first port of call, of course, is those services and products that claim to ?babyproof? your home. There are zillions of them, from high-end, bespoke consultants who will custom-fit your house with baby gates and toilet bowl locks to the cheaper plastic kits you can buy at any hardware store.
The problem is, none of them really work. I?m not saying that they don?t do their job. Technically, they do. Baby gates make it complicated for everyone in your family, including the baby, to go up and down the stairs. Fiddly cupboard and drawer locks impede your ability to do basic household chores, like get things out of the cupboards. But here?s one thing they won?t do: make your house a truly secure and safe environment for you and your baby. For that, you need to be a calm, emotionally secure parent. You need to be truly confident in the belief that your home is a safe space in which to raise an infant. You need to believe it. To reach this higher level of parenting consciousness, you need to babyproof your life, not just your house. And in most cases, that higher level of babyproofing only comes with hard-won experience.
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