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Bathroom Safety
Like everyone, babies and toddlers like to have some sense of ownership in their environment. While the bathroom is a difficult place to give children free reign, it is a good idea to carve out a space for them that they can feel is their own. Nail a hook in the wall so they can have a space to hang their towel, put their water toys in a plastic bin they can reach or put a step-stool in the room so they can reach their toothbrush on the counter. Then let them know that they have their bathroom stuff and Mommy and Daddy have their own bathroom stuff too. While you have to be sure to keep the dangerous things locked up and out of reach, your things such as hairbrushes, toothbrushes and towels will be off-limits to them as well. But because they have their own bathroom goodies, they will learn to understand to respect other people's things and know not to get into things that don't belong to them.
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