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Speaker 1: Right. So, in the space of less than one day,

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Speaker 1: a coroner has called for regulations to make corded blinds

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Speaker 1: died in one of these blinds has backed up that call,

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Speaker 1: and then the government has said no, there will be

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Speaker 1: no regulation. Thing has done in less in a day. This,

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Speaker 1: by the way, if you don't know what I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: this is a parent's worst nightmare, isn't it. It's the

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Speaker 1: idea that something in the house that seemingly innocuous kills

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Speaker 1: your child. The corded blinds are that, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you've got the blind and you've got the loopy cord,

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Speaker 1: what sometimes happens is that, and that's the one with

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Speaker 1: the kind of the little bubbles on it, the round bits.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes what happens is the kids get themselves stuck in

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Speaker 1: it and they can't get themselves out. And freaks me

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Speaker 1: out the thought of that happening, so much so that

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Speaker 1: I've already gone around adding cliques to the windows to

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Speaker 1: make the blind safe. And after hearing the coroner's report

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Speaker 1: out today, our double checked every blind just to be sure. Again.

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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine how awful this tragedy is for this family,

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Speaker 1: and I do realize that they have the best intentions

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Speaker 1: in mind, they have the best of intentions and trying

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Speaker 1: to stop this from happening to another family like it

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Speaker 1: has to them. But I think the government's actually come

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Speaker 1: down on the right side of this, because, as we've

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Speaker 1: discussed so often on this show, it is just too

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Speaker 1: easy to write a new rule without perhaps realizing what

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Speaker 1: the unintended consequences of that will be for years, potentially

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Speaker 1: before some other government finally repeals it decades later, Like

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Speaker 1: the well meaning rules around apple trees in early childhood centers,

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Speaker 1: they caused all kinds of headaches. Actually, safety, I would argue,

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Speaker 1: is something that parents shouldn't be outsourcing to rules. Blinds

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Speaker 1: are not the only thing in your house that can

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Speaker 1: hurt your toddler. Heavy furniture that's at risk of falling

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Speaker 1: over should be bracketed back so it doesn't fall on

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Speaker 1: the kids. Pools should be fenced off for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: Knife draws should be locked for obvious reasons. Hard edges

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Speaker 1: should have soft things put on them. You can go online,

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Speaker 1: you can find a list of the things that you

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Speaker 1: should do. There are plenty of these lists out there,

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Speaker 1: and then you can go through every single one and

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Speaker 1: make your house safer, which you should do. You could

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Speaker 1: buy cleats to fix the blind card to the wall,

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Speaker 1: and you should. So the fixers out there. The knowledge

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Speaker 1: is out there in the information age. Do you still

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Speaker 1: need a rule? For more from Heather Duplasy Allen Drive.

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