On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:08:17 GMT, "Vilco" > wrote:

>Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> And securing the stove isn't going to keep toddlers from reach up and
>> pulling pots off the stove. That happens way too often.
>> Nothing will fix this "problem" except being careful.
>
>I have seen a kind of grating which you can attach to the perimeter of the
>stove, built with a solid metal coupling, thus raising the top borders of a
>good 7-8 inches. This way the pots are out of reach from toddlers.

And when the toddler pulls the kitchen stool over to the stove and
climbs on it so they can see what's up there?

The kitchen is NOT the place for unsupervised animals, babies or
toddlers... when my brother was a baby my mother turned her back for a
few minutes and he pulled himself up onto the front of the heater and
then was stuck there screaming because his hands were burning and he
didn't know how to get down... that was in the living room but it
could just have easily happened on a hot oven. I NEVER let the cats
into the kitchen while I'm cooking, and do my darnest to keep them out
of there the rest of the time too, because they're a hazard to me and
to themselves...

If you have children or animals and you are cooking, you need to be
there and alert for disaster ALL THE TIME, because they don't know
that what they're doing is dangerous, and it could easily get them
killed...