Write an article based on this "Use a rubber band to keep kids from locking a door. Make a smaller "laundry basket play tub" within your bathtub. Create a child safety bead-bracelet with your phone number on it. Use pool noodles to help keep a kid from rolling out of bed. Trace a kid's feet on paper when you're shoe shopping without them. Use paper cupcake or muffin wrappers to catch drips from frozen treats."
Loop the rubber band over one door knob, make a figure eight over the latch, then loop the free end of the rubber band over the other door knob. Choose a thick, sturdy rubber band that is stretched taut when positioned this way. Place a standard rectangular laundry basket into the tub as you fill it with water. Put your toddler or small child into the basket, along with their toys. When bathtime is done, just drain the tub and lift out the basket with all the toys inside! This is not a substitute for an infant bath basin. Use it only for kids who are big enough to bathe in a standard tub. Supervise children at all times while bathing. Buy a container of colorful bracelet beads and let your child help you thread them onto the bracelet string. Pick out numbered beads and string them on so that they correspond to your phone number. You might also want to spell out the child's first name. A bracelet is no substitute for proper supervision of a child. Lay a foam pool noodle along each long edge of the bed, right on top of the mattress. Tuck the fitted sheet over the mattress so that the noodles are held securely in place. The small humps created by the noodles will make it less likely that your child will roll off the edge of the bed. Use this as a short-term measure for an occasional problem. Invest in proper bed rails if your child rolls out of bed frequently. Instead of having to guess whether a pair of shoes will fit, bring their feet (or at least a tracing of them) with you. Trace around both their feet, either barefoot or with socks on. If the shoes you're looking at are larger (but not too much larger) than the traced outlines, the shoes will fitat least for a few months! Poke the bottom of the wooden stick of your kid's favorite frozen treatlike a Popsicle or ice cream barthrough the bottom of the paper wrapper. Slide the wrapper up to the base of the treat and let it catch all the inevitable drips! Paper wrappers with foil on the outside work best, but any paper wrapper will do.