The only stove guards I can find are the ones made by Prince Lionheart which get pretty bad reviews. I am worried about my toddler reaching up and grabbing the stovetop. Any ideas or products?
I must say that I am impressed with the number of answers I received...thank you to all!
As for the advice of teaching my dd to touch the stove...well, to me, that goes without saying, but I've always been of the opinion that for babies and toddlers, one modifies the environement, not the child. My girlfriend has beautiful but breakable and dangerous trinkets throughout the house...when I ask her, she says she says "no no" to her baby and sometimes macks the baby's hand! Needless to say, I put all of MY dangerous things in the attic until my dd is older. Just part of the whole "childproofing" thing for me.
So I guess what I'm saying is that while I do appreciate simply using the word "no" with my dd near the stove, I don't trust the curiosity of a toddler not to outweigh her desire to obey the command. Would I let her play on the sidewalk while I am inside and trust her not to run in traffic because I firmly told her "no" in the past? Absolutely not! I would guard her and place myself BETWEEN her and the street. That is what I wanted to use the stove guard for.
I hope you understand my position, and thank you for all of your responses! :)
Try www.onestepahead.com they have a lot of safety products if thats not the right web address just google it.
S.,
I bought a stove guard because I didn't want my son to grab a pot from the stove. He never paid attention to the stove until I put the stove guard there, then it tried to throws balls on the stove to see if they would land on the stove guard. Within a week, he ripped off the stove guard. Once it was gone, he didn't pay anymore attention to the stove.
I basically cooked on the rear eyes of the stove until he was older and made sure he was not near the stove when I took items from the oven.
Hi S.,
My husband installed the knob covers when I was pregnant as one dopey morning I turned on the gas stove with my huge belly (and didn't know it - that's a whole other FUNNY story). Anyway, they are a fact of life now as we have a very inquisitive toddler and despite "HOT" and "NO", she wants to mimic everything I do. So if you cook a lot and are worried, get those covers. I know we got the first set as a gift from my dad, but I'm pretty sure we got the replacement set at either Bed Bath & Beyond or Babies R Us. As for the pots on the stove, keep the handles rotated inward to the wall and cook on the back two burners as a habit. Luckily, they do learn quickly as my daughter has quit trying to touch the oven door:)
Good luck!
i had a lock for the stove and knob covers for the burners, not sure if that's what you mean. Honestly i never even had a time when my kids made a grab for anything. I would always tell them no and made them stand at the other end of the kitchen before i took dinner out of the oven etc. so they mayhave picked up on my extreme paranoia. so for us, it was a precaution, but what a Pain in the Butt, messing around with all of those was an extra hassle i could have lived with out, But you never know.
We never used stove guards either, just always said "HOT" in a loud voice and if they did get too close to a stove hot or not we would say "no". Neither of my kids have ever touched a hot stove. Our concern was always what if we're at someone else's house and we're desensitized to the danger? So we felt it was better to teach them of the dangers.
S.,
I never used O. either. Just told him "no" and "hot" a lot! We never had an issue or incident, thank God. The only things I used were the outlet plug covers and the cabinet locks for cupboards with cleaning stuff/medicine/etc. and mini blind cord guards.
I agree with the other post. We never had them either. If you consistantly tell them ouch and hot they will listen. There are so many safety gadgets out there...the only ones i thought were truly needed were the outlet plugs and baby gates.
Well i read what some people had to say and if you still want to get one. go to onestepahead.com they have some on there.
I don't think anything will help more than telling her from an early age not to touch the stove, the stove is very hot, she could get burnt very easily, and the stove is not a toy.
I have never had a stove guard and am truly grateful that it has never been an issue.
I'm just teaching my son not to touch the stove-- every time he does, he goes to time out. I'm not too cranky, but there are a few hard and fast rules, and not touching the stove is one of them. Other than that, we keep the pot handles all facing in and (obviously) never leave him alone in the kitchen-- or let him near the stove-- when the stove is hot.
I've never used a stove guard, honestly, I didnt even knew they made them. I never had a problem with my little one touching the stove either. I just told her "hot!" and she learned pretty fast. But, I read your responses and figured I'd snoop around online for ya. I found some other than Prince Lionheart. I found one at www.onestepahead.com and another at www.TotShield.com. I found the one from TotShield at Amazon.com too. You can check them out and read the reviews. Hope I helped some! Good Luck!
