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Essential Guide to Baby and Toddler Home Safety

Confidently create a safe environment for your little one with the guidance of internationally recognized child safety expert, Holly Choi.
A safe place to grow.

The Essential Guide to Baby and Toddler Home Safety is a comprehensive video “encyclopedia” for all things home safety for families with a baby or toddler.

If you have ever wanted to borrow the brain of baby and toddler safety expert, Holly Choi (@safebeginnings), to keep your little one safe: now you can! Holly’s goal was to create a course that caregivers could work through to solve a number of challenges around the home from a babyproofing perspective, and easy strategies to prevent serious injury.

The course starts off with “The Safety Mindset” module, where she talks about how to approach safety decision making and how to look at scenarios through an injury-prevention lens, without needing to feel like a “helicopter parent”. She provides you with all the information so that you can make solid choices for your own family, choices that fit your personal risk tolerance. 

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Course outline
  • The course contains over 55 lessons, with 5h30m of video content
  • The course also comes with a 28-page companion workbook to help guide you in creating a safe environment at home for your little one.
  • This is an ever-evolving course – new lessons to be added throughout the year, including seasonal content focused on holiday safety, winter safety and more.
  • The course spans 13 modules:

Pillars of injury prevention

Risks vs. hazards

Layers of protection

Safety standards

When to start babyproofing

Saving money

Essential vs. optional babyproofing

The solution may be removal

What is survivorship bias?

Used baby gear

“What about the cat?”

Where to get help

Creating a safe nursery

Spot the hazard

Preventing overheating

When to lower the crib mattress

Window treatments

What is “out of reach”?

Stairs, gates and banisters

Door lock solutions

Furniture hazards

Cabinet and drawer locks

Outlets, cords and cables

Preventing window falls

Appliance locks

Stove knob covers

When can babyproofing come down?

What is a “yes space”?

Examples of a “yes space”

The bobblehead effect

Elevated surfaces

Helmets, biking and other activities

Fitting a bike helmet (2V1 rule)

High chair safety

Selecting a high chair

Sources of common burn injuries

Preventing the most common burns

Hot hair tools

Fire safety

Drowning statistics

Safe bath time

Swimsuit safety

Swimming pool safety

Swimming lessons

Life jackets

Overlooked hazards

What’s poisonous and what to do if poisoning happens

Plant safety

Vintage toys

Button batteries

Top choking hazards

The toilet paper roll test

Multiple children and toys

Multiple children and gates

Transitioning to a toddler bed

Babyproofing on vacation

Visiting family

Entertaining guests

Hallowe’en safety

Holiday safety

"the right amount of thoroughness"
I love the course. It is the right amount of thoroughness without being too overwhelming or scary. I also love that now as certain milestones come up, I have easy to find resources to rewatch versus videos on Instagram where it's hard to find the right one when you need it.
Courtney
Frequently asked questions
The video content is 5 hours and 30 minutes, but you can take as long as you need to work through it.
No, all our online courses are lifetime access, and we believe that’s the only way it should be: because keeping our kids safe doesn’t have an expiry date.
The course works on most devices – phone, tablet or computer. Specifically, your phone, tablet or computer must be able to run one of the following web browsers:
Phone or Tablet: iOS Safari (version 11 and up), Chrome, or Samsung Internet
Desktop: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge, or Internet Explorer (version 11 only)
This course is intended to be purchased on a per-individual basis. We reserve the right to disable access to the course without warning for accounts accessing the course from several IP addresses, and/or multiple devices accessing the course simultaneously.

Absolutely! Get in touch with us and we’ll get you set up!

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Have an expert answer your questions directly: Holly has limited availability for one-on-one personalized safety consultations.