Media Room- Window Safety

The media room is on the third floor, and the windows are quite low to the floor...

I've been having nightmares that the boys will begin wrestling and fall into (and through) the windows.

We quickly decided that for piece of mind we should install window guards on both windows.

Here are the ones we picked:

We selected them for their size (wanted it to be large enough to secure the entire bottom of the window) and also for their emergency open feature.  (Another one of my fears is a house fire).

Mike installed them last weekend, and although they aren't pretty- I feel much better having them!

Window Guard Closed

We showed the boys how to open them by removing the black "key", then pulling the guard up & toward them... stressing this is only to be done in an emergency.

Window Guard swings open for emergencies

I also put one of those emergency window ladders in the storage area right next to the window, and made sure the kids knew how to operate that as well.

Now that our big safety concerns have been addressed, we can rest a little easier when the boys are playing up there.