If you’ll be visiting the grandparents’ house (or anyone’s home)—especially on a routine basis, for an extended period of time, or if you’re going to leave your child in someone's care for a night out—here are some safety strategies to consider:

• Ask grandparents to remove potentially dangerous items from the floor as well as from areas your child may be using as a play space.

• Ask Grandma to push small appliances back from the edges of the countertops, put away cords, remove tablecloths, and use the back burners when she is cooking.

• Ask your hosts to put medicines, chemicals, cleaners, and any potentially hazardous items in a locked cabinet.

• Ask you hosts to be cognizant of everyday items they may typically leave on countertops and otherwise within your child’s reach that could be hazardous to a child, such as food storage bags, aluminum foil or plastic wrap containers with a jagged metal edge, refrigerator magnets, and cleaning materials.