How To Identify Quality Home Safety Devices When Childproofing Your Home

How do I identify quality home safety devices?

Identifying a quality child safety device may be difficult for the layperson. What child safety professionals do is try it all. Professional babyproofers buy it all, try it all, and the one thing that I have unique to myself, as well as being a child safety professional, is that I'm a mommy. I don't just buy it and see that if it's functional. I use it. And if it can keep my kids out or if it can keep them out but drive me insane because it's so difficult to open and close, then I'm not going to recommend it as a quality home safety device. As a consumer, if you're going to a retail store, how do you define which child safety device will work best in your home? Trial and error is the easiest way to do it. If there's a JPMA logo on it, you know that it's approved by Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, so will be a quality home safety device. But if it has an International Association for Child Safety logo on it, it's probably going to be a great child safety device for home use.