Christmas tree in a house with children and pets

Decorating a house and apartment for the New Year is a pleasant process that allows you to create a festive atmosphere. However, if there are small children and pets in the family, the decorated spruce will become an incredibly attractive object for them, which they want to touch and “taste”.

The easiest option – when the baby is less than three years old in the house, a kitten or a playful puppy – do not put a festive spruce in principle. It’s okay, for a couple of years, while the kids grow up, you can do without an artificial or real tree. You can replace them with completely safe and at the same time cute crafts, for example, from soft felt. Or just draw a spruce on canvas, right on the wall, so as not to provoke impulses to knock it down or tear off toys.

If the parents are determined to decorate their house with a Christmas tree no matter what, they can go for unexpected tricks. For example, hang a tree with toys on the ceiling, lift it to the top shelf of the cabinet, block it with a protective fence, even put it in a cage or behind glass doors. However, in the last two cases there is no guarantee that you will not give up after loud and prolonged protests of a child who wants to get to a new and such a bright object..

However, seriously, in the case of small children and pets, when installing a Christmas tree, you should adhere to the basic rules:

• Give up the rain! For some reason unknown to scientists, cats often eat it, simply swallowing it, like spaghetti. And then they suffer a lot. Children also love to pull glitter into their mouths, so no thin rain and lush garlands from which you can tear off small pieces. Better textile tapes or paper streamers, they are much safer even if ingested.
• Say a hard no to glass, fragile toys too! Unbreakable plastic, soft felt, sewn toys, paper crafts, tangerines and gingerbread – these are your decorations for the spruce.
• Taboos are also real candles, why provoke little shkodniks to play with fire or a desire to taste wax.
• The floor spruce must be installed very firmly. You can additionally tie it with a cord, rope to the cornice or a heating battery, so as not to be piled.
• We choose a garland certified, safe, with closed bulbs, we connect it so that the kids do not get to carry, do not get tangled in the wires and do not stumble over them.
• The spruce itself, artificial or real, must also have a quality certificate attesting to safety.

The British company Argos thought of cat lovers and young parents by offering them just such a spruce. What? Even very large boxes with gifts can be put under it, and kids and pets will not reach toys and branches. In addition, stylish, designers have gone to great lengths.

Another safe option is an inflatable Christmas tree. True, she is not so stylish, but quite cute, one might say, cartoonish. The only risk is that she will be pierced with something sharp, such as cat’s claws..

Children, cats, dogs are not a reason to refuse New Year’s decor in the house. But you need to approach him correctly, competently, carefully so that the holiday is not overshadowed by unforeseen situations and trips to the veterinarian.