October Child Safety Month
October is Child Safety Month and that includes safety with window treatments. On the one hand you might say there really aren’t that many deaths of children with shade and blind cords compared to other illnesses, but really, isn’t one death too many??? And it is very preventable.
The issue is that children can get tangled in and strangle with the dangling pull cords on shades or blinds. The cord is the length of the shade until you raise the shade. Then the cord gets longer and becomes an easily reached hazard. Just recently in the news, I heard about some children dying because they became caught in the cords on their parent’s roman shades. That should never happen.
Obviously, keeping the child away from the cords is the answer. Move the cribs away from the windows so they can’t reach the cords from their bed. But as the child gets mobile, you need to keep the cords away at all times. Many of our shades and blinds have single cords or ‘’break away” tassels so that there isn’t a loop on which the child can choke. Many shades are cordless or operated by remote control (what is one more remote?) so there are no dangling lift cords. And when there needs to be a continuous cord on the side of the shade, the cord is mounted securely at the bottom so the child can not release it.
Children are very precious and there are many evils we can not prevent. This is not one of them. Custom window fashions are now designed with your child’s safety in mind.
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