What the image shows is something you don’t ever want to see in your home, especially if there are little kids around the house.
Victorian mother Chrissy McDonald realised this the hard way.
And seeing this very scenario in her own house only strengthened resolve to child-proofing her house.
In her Facebook post, she recalls the moment it all happened.
“Woke up this morning to see this!!!” she says. “I have 3 young children and they are my life! If this power point was turned ON this could of been the end of my little laney girls LIFE!!!
“Our whole world would of been tipped upside down and everything that we have achieved IN LIFE would of (sic) disappeared!”
According to Chrissy, she had looked at the power outlet two week ago and thought to herself that she needed to put covers on them so her children would be safe from being electrocuted.
“I needed to do that,” she remembered thinking.
Read Chrissy's full story on the next page
Seeing a key jammed into one of the holes of the power outlet that morning sent her reeling.
“PLEASE EVERYONE,” Chrissy pleads on her post, “remember place the power point covers on all your power points! Don't think ‘oh they are so annoying to take out all the time though’ JUST DO IT!”
Looking at her daughter, she realised how lucky she was that the switch to the power outlets were off.
Child-proofing the house
Around your house, be sure to secure furniture such as bookshelves and heavy furniture that could tip easily to the wall using brackets.
Use doorknob covers to keep them out of rooms with potential hazards and to keep them from leaving the house unsupervised.
Make sure your window blinds do not have looped cords on them as they can present a strangulation hazard to a young child.
And always cover your electrical outlets with protective covers to keep small fingers from them and small objects from being inserted into them.
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