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babys and your components

Many of us have or had small children for example bellow 2 yo

They're in general free to do anything and can make themselves harm crowling onto the bunch of wires or touching naked tubes. They can also bite knobs, move movable components and so on...

My son is about to crawl and He will be visiting living room with my equipment quite often. I am not worried about my equipment pretty much since He won't be able to move even a single component -- too heavy. I worry about power cords, interconnects that are in the rear of my equipment stand. I worry about naked tubes on the mono amplifiers. I worry about speakers since thay can fall down when pushed.
On the other hand, I cannot limit Him to be in carriage or stroller or in bed while he's awake -- He has to walk and crawl.

It's not often the issue to keep separate room for that purpuoses(I've never seen that in my life). Most likely no matter how big or how many rooms is in your space, there is a wife in the family that will want to have it.

How do you manage this problem? What do you do to avoid accidents with babys?
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Marakanetz,

Luckily, my 15 month-old doesn't care for cords or wires. My wife found a power strip box at Babies-R-Us to secure most of the plugs in my system. My speaker cables only frustrate the baby because she trips on the occasionally on her trips from "here to there".

She did go through a phase where she couldn't leave the power switches on my amps alone. My wife and I were vigilent and told her "no" until she quit trying. Same went with touching the speakers (a real phobia of mine as an Apogee owner).

Finally, I allow the baby to operate the CD player via the remote. Obviously, I have to center the disc after she puts it in the tray, but the look of amazement on her face when the drawer closes and the music starts when she pushes the "play" button is priceless.
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