Dangers in the kitchen!

There are many dangers in our environment. In the home, there is always the danger of fire, water, furniture and decorations. Outside the home, there are vehicles and other things children play with from time to time, even during festive periods.

Very young children have to be constantly watched. Certainly, they are active, playful and curious. The only time they are not, is when they are sick.

Knowing this, an alert, responsible adult must be around them to ensure their fast actions, playfulness and curiosity do not land them in trouble.

Stoves and fires must be out of their reach. Having no proper knowledge of the stove, fire and boiling water in a kettle, they have no fear of such things.

Curiosity leads them to reach out to feel things in their surroundings. Pulling a kettle of hot boiling water can cause pain, burn and possibly a number of other injuries. Well, hot water onto the eyes can mean blindness.

Frying pans are just as dangerous. They are hot and, usually, so are their contents. A frying pan flipping through the air bringing along its fried food onto a little one’s head could leave behind more than just a trauma!

Children should not be allowed to touch food with lots of spices. If chilies, a very hot, spicy vegetable, were to get onto the hands and then those hands rub the eyes or finger the nose, there would be a most unpleasant two hours minimum suffering for the poor child.

Tell the children what can possibly happen when certain things in the kitchen are touched. Let them know as the things avail themselves at the kitchen. Knowledge is usually useful and prevention is always better than cure.

If certain experiences in the kitchen have not been written, please add them to the comment section.