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Another show of hands

  • Yes, i have bought them.

    Votes: 93 64.1%

  • No, I have never bought them.

    Votes: 51 35.2%

  • I never bought them, but I wish I would have, or if they were available I would have.

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Total voters
    145
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The first wife is a safety freak when it comes to the kids as soon as the were floor crawlers we have had the inserts and I am still trying to pry them out finally got here to take the cabinet locks off I was tired of getting the boy to remove them for me so I could get to my Capt Crunch at nite.
 
I had them on the receptacles for several years and the kids never did get shocked. I was glad they were available and that they were cheap, 'cause it cost a lot of moolah raising kids. :smile: I would have hated going around putting in expensive receptacles.
 
My daughter is not even crawling yet - but I feel there will be a combination approach - most outlets are behind furnature - she is and will be supervised, and there will be a conversation at some point. I think I will be more worried about my wifes paint collection and gardening chem lab and tools. As well as my own tools in the garage....
 
I did it with my first kid. You know how it is : with the first kid , everyone is more nervous. Now, I have 2, did not bother having them for the second kid. I am a bad dad!!Just kidding. I have to be honest: my kids scare to go to hospitals, doctors.... and I use this as a tool to scare them. I told them how they would get hurt, burn and end up going to the hospital. They never touch the receptacles.
 
Yes, installed many due to my wife.

I got shocked once plugging something in when I was small and learned never to do that again. The same way I learned and still learn most of life's important lessons, the hard way. Needless to say my wife did not agree with my teaching methods.
 
when i was a kid i remember I was going to stick a toothpick in the outlet hole and my uncle screamed at me and scared the crap out of me. needless to say i never tried that again. My parents never had no plastic plugs and we all came out ok.
I personally resist the idea of making everything baby proof. whats next mandatory emergency lights or even better mandatory night lights in dark hallways. Oh yea i can see it now.
 
tonyou812 said:
when i was a kid i remember I was going to stick a toothpick in the outlet hole and my uncle screamed at me and scared the crap out of me. needless to say i never tried that again. My parents never had no plastic plugs and we all came out ok.
I personally resist the idea of making everything baby proof. whats next mandatory emergency lights or even better mandatory night lights in dark hallways. Oh yea i can see it now.
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It is the parents responsibility to protect their children?! There is law in force that requires special carseats to be used to protect them in cars. I don't see how that differs from requirements of guarding them against electrical hazard.

Not that I agree with the childseat law, but.....

The rest of it is plain economics. If these are not signed into law, then they would be seldom used, therefore very expensive. If you require everybody to have them, then the mass volume production brings the price way down and competition arises that further drives the price down and employs a buncha people. So at the end I have to admit that even though I don't like being told what to do, overall it protects children and benefits society.
 
I raised five kids without the plastic inserts and never lost one, I just talked to each of them as they got curious about the receptacles and explained it would hurt more then falling down stairs and they might have to see the doctor (seems most kids hate doctors).
My youngest son put them everywhere in his house I caught the two year old trying to pry one off a few weeks ago, she had seen her mother removing one to use the receptacle and wanted to copy. No matter how you try it if you get a child that wants to play with something they will find a way.
 
One Kid, one house, receptacles covers, kid locks on the poison cabinets and knife drawer. kid locks came off after the first time i saw him open one - probably when he was about five. Receptacle covers came off shortly after.

When he was four, locked the gun cabinet, pistols in a safe, ammunition in a separate locked box, bedroom 45ACP in a combo locked box, closet shotgun in a locked, quick release clip bolted to the wall.

I've always been more concerned about the poisons than anything else.
 
When my first child was born I bought plastic receptacle inserts and installed them throughout my house.

Also to kind of add to where I think Ryan is going, I also bought a gate to install at the top of the stairs to keep my kids from falling down the stairs and saftey latches for the kitchen and bathroom drawers and cabinets. I also went through the house and moved or removed floor level items that I felt might be harmful to my kids. You know, its called being a parent. :)

Chris
 
3 great girls, no plug inserts or TR receptacles...it is amazing that they all survived :roll:

Like Dennis, I did speak to them about that and many other things, stoves, jumping on beds, standing in tubs, the list is endless. Now it is college, boys, boys, boys and other adult stuff. I am close to my girls and they actually STILL listen to their father and ask for advice - that too is amazing :grin:


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I do not disagree with anyone who should so choose to install any kind of protective devices for whatever reason...it is called "choice" in a free country. :wink:
 
I never messed with receptacles because my Dad is a retired electrician and told us kids the danger of playing with them.

Too bad he never told us not to stick a knife in the toaster though because I remember getting a pretty good shock.:roll:
 
Today I did a final inspection on a basement finish. The h/o moved stuff into the basement before inspection & stuck those #%$* plastic inserts in every receps. I think I'll be glad when I start seeing TR receps.
PS, I didn't even have gfi protection growing up & I'm still here.
 
No kids no problems. I grew up with out plastic inserts and here I am today! I am not against the idea but I believe if the kid can stick something in the receptacle then they could easily remove the plug and still stick something in it. This thread brought back a memory of when I was about 4 or 5, I stuck tweezers into the bath outlet (no gfi!) and it scarred the sh*t out of me. After that I learned a good lesson about what not to do!
 
celtic said:
Bob...I did the same/similar as Dennis:
....told both kids (5/8) that they are to stay away....the older child doesn't question me, the little one wanted to know "Why?" I told her it gets hot like the stove (it doesn't, but she understands hot/cold ~ so you go with what you can).
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I use the same explanation w/ my 3 yr old. He understands that hot things are bad. Anything I want him to stay away from is "hot hot hot!!". It works well. I did buy the plastic inserts too.
 
I have twin daughters, now 13. I did for the first two years. I have never spanked my daughters. Well, just one slap on the hand. Aspen decided to play pokey with a recep when she was around eight months. I did what I thought was best. It did do the trick. I don't know if I would have rather been personally zapped, or slap her hand, but it seemed to have worked. Never happened again;)
 
considered it?

considered it?

I considered installing plastic safety receptacle caps, but never could seem to schedule an outage to do so! I did not want to work them hot! (as per osha requirements)
 
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