Hi,

As we think about safety products to gift those whom you care about this holiday season, let us remember the seniors in our family or those who need to be physically supported as they go about the daily routines that we all take for granted.

While seniors and those who are on the road to recovery know that they sometimes have to depend on others to move around, they still value their independence and will cherish every chance to exercise it. It helps if the furniture around the house has good stability to help seniors maintain steadiness of their body. One of the most worrisome and difficult moments is going to the bathroom. They have to be careful because things are more slippery in the bathroom and the tasks require so much shifting of weight it is easy to get off balance.

Toilet Seat Safety Support

For safety in the bathroom, the toilet seat needs to be made of firm materials secured firmly to the toilet base. Sitting balance can sometimes be a problem, so you may want to give them a Toilet Seat Safety Support to help them keep their balance at these critical moments. This is a free-standing frame that provides support on either side when they sit down or get up. The conveniently located handholds allow them to transfer weight from the feet to the hands and help prevent them from falling when they get on or off the toilet seat. If you click the picture, you will see how the toilet seat safety support looks and get an idea of its features. As an extra, there is a magazine rack for keeping stuff they like to read.

This simple frame helps our beloved seniors or recovering patients keep their privacy and exercise the independence they so cherish — and need. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living,
Yovette Mumford

Hi

In this series of blogs about safety products as gift ideas for the holiday season, we thought about the seniors in our homes or those weakened by a major illness and are still on the road to recovery.

Who would have thought that those in their 50s and 60s today would become caregivers to 80- or 90-year-old parents? The Family Caregiver Alliance estimates that “unpaid caregivers” — meaning younger family members — will total 37 million by 2050, which would be almost double the 20 million estimated in 2000.

Safety Bath Seat With Back

We can help the physically weakened members of the family keep their independence in taking care of themselves by making the bathroom safe for them. A tub chair, like the Safety Bath Seat with Back rest, is a sturdy chair meant to be placed in the bathtub. Being of molded high-density plastic, it is water resistant; having rubber tips at the end of anodized aluminum legs, it is slip resistant. The seat and back rest have drainage holes to make sure the plastic does not become slippery. The chair will enable seniors who cannot get down into a tub or a recovering person who is too weak to stand in a shower to bathe in the tub rather than in bed. If you click the picture, you’ll get more details on the features of the Safety Bath Seat with Back rest.

Think of the boost to their self-confidence (and the greater satisfaction that results) when they can get a proper bath in the shower by themselves instead of the sponge baths we give them in bed! To make it even safer for them, we can install safety bars, or grab bars, in and near the tub to give them a handhold when they change positions.

These gifts will surely be appreciated by those who will use them. They will feel empowered, even as they feel a lot fresher. Look around in our website for more safety products you can give in this holiday season. There’s one for every member of the family. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living, Yovette Mumford

Hi,

During the gift-giving season, one of the more enduring gifts to children that I can remember is books. Everyone profits so much from reading books, but none more so than children.

Our pre-school children often derive so much of their learning from books. There are many research studies telling us that children who begin to read at an early age with fun books have greater tendency to read real books and achieve better results in school. In today’s technology-based learning systems, interactive books offer children an instant feedback on their choices to questions posed by the book.

Interactive Home Safety Book

Come to think of it, the best way to teach our children to develop awareness about safety — in the home or while at play — may be through an Interactive Safety Book. The book asks children “what would you do” questions to various home- and play-situations, and they give their answers through the little buttons on the page. This particular Interactive Safety Book is not quite the interactive books that children read online with a computer, but it does interact with the children. It tells them the accuracy of their answers with fun sounds and flashing red/green lights.

The nice thing about the Interactive Safety Book is a wrap-up section that allows parents and children to do some interaction of their own as they discuss the safety situations in the book and the appropriate responses to each. It is going to be such fun for you and your child. Click the picture to learn some more about the Interactive Safety Book and look around in our website for more safety product ideas for every member of the family. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living, Yovette Mumford

Hi,

I would like us to consider the toddlers in our families and what we can give them this holiday season that would be for their long-term benefit.

Most of us know how intensely inquisitive toddlers can be. They are always exploring and experimenting, wanting to know what a thing is and what makes it tick, what it does and what it takes to break it. Soon enough, the toys we give them will be gone, but they will continue probing and touching. They must want so much to find the words to ask us their questions, but until they acquire the means, they can do nothing else but act these questions out and discover for themselves. Every new discovery will raise more questions than answers, and the more the toddler finds out, the more he/she will want to know.

As they get more interested and involved in their environment, we as parents should respect and respond to their need by providing a stimulating but safe environment. Child-proofing is the cheapest, and the most sensible, way of doing this. Child-proofing your home will take only a few hours and cost very little, especially with the Mommy’s Helper Home Safety Kit.

Home Safety Kit

You will need childproof latches on cabinets, covers on electrical sockets, door stops and safety locks. You can get all of these in one box, the Mommy’s Helper Home Safety Kit. If you click the picture, you’ll find more details on the Home Safety Kit. You’ll probably want sturdy swing gates across any open staircases. Think of anything dangerous or valuable that the toddler can reach and find ways to get them out of the way or secure them.

Child-proofing is the best way for us to accommodate the toddler’s need to exercise their curiosity and further develop their minds. Look around in our website for more home safety and child proofing products. Let the toddler explore. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living, Yovette Mumford