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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
So, what's the take on window guards for apartments? In NYC, you're required to have them permanently fixed on all windows of apartments with little kids (other than windows opening onto a fire escape). NYC law requires that all "child guards" must be permanently fixed to the window frame and unopenable. (Brilliant!)
Opinions?
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I moved into a house where the windows on the second floor already had these thingeys where if you want to open the window more than a few inches you have to press in this thingey that (I believe) most kids wouldn't be able to figure out how to use. Then there is the screen behind it.
Are these contraptions available to add to existing windows that don't have them? You say you have furniture in front of some windows. That would seem to do the trick if the furniture is heavy and the kids can't move it. (As long as you could fling it to access the window easily if you needed to get out). For my house, I got one of those fire ladders to plop on the sill and crawl down. Though I can't imagine Vietbabe would be able to use it and would have to go down on my back. I had it in a box in the basement but after watching Towering Inferno one late night, broke it open and put it in my bedroom. In terms of apartment living, I am still in shock over Eric Clapton's 4 year old falling 48 stories. There needs to be at least something on there. Especially if you have cleaning people who might leave the windows open.
On a less dramatic note - thanks for all the advice on slugs. PS - I took the anti-slug advice on here before the post warning about chemicals. I dumped the stuff on the dahlia area as a preventive but I think it killed my dahlias. Bummer. Serves me right. And worse, after thinking the milky liquid was safer for Babe than pellets, before the milky liquid could be absorbed in the ground, Babe got an ice cream with gumballs as eyes (Dora) from the darn ice cream truck and it fell out of her mouth and dropped on the liquid mess in the garden and she bolted for it to put back it back in her mouth. Man, it's amazing how you just can't think of everything. That Dora's eye would fall out, right into a wet mess of major pesticides and child would grab it and injest. Shudder.
Speaking of taking advice, as per Atticus I now have this as my mailbox, having been able to purchase it with my $100 Amazon gift certificate.
I have no time to dilly dally over these things. Atticus posted that it was a great mailbox and so I just bought it right away. You have such influence, Atticus. I like it but warning -- it is huge and I'm thinking too big for my teeny cape cod which has a cottage look. But darn if it doesn't hold several issues of magazines including the book size "Real Simple" magazine.
As for the Peapod, my sister swears by them. I didn't have it when Vietbabe was a teeny infant, but I would order on Netgrocer.com everything and it was nice to have on the screen different baby and kiddie-starter foods you could try. You can ponder what new baby foods they might like (and agonize over what bath time stuff, etc. you want) in the comfort of you home, rather than standing confused in the baby food. Plus your orders are "saved" so you can reorder by pulling up the prior order and revising it. Comes by fedex. Was it pricey? I don't remember. I was exhausted and clicking away on the computer after the 4 am feeding and not paying attention to cost.
