Maybe make one place
really safe. Then, if you need someplace to put your child, when you have to leave the room, you're in good shape.
We brought our son home from the hospital with an inground pool - that wasn't a fence between our house & the cement pond. It was the demise of the previous owner
. It was fenced before he could walk, of course. (He didn't walk until the week before his first birthday, didn't crawl much and never attempted to move across the patio to the pool. I did keep a playpen on the patio so I could put him in it, if I was distracted.)
Our son is 3.5 years now. He was really hard on our floor lamps - he wiped out 4! I kept the cleaning fluids locked up, but he much preferred the cabinet with the pots & pans - they still make a lot of noise! Now, I'm sure he wouldn't drink the cleaners, but I wouldn't want them spilled on my wooden kitchen floor
. He figured out how to get the plug covers undone at a year, but has never tried to put anything in the sockets. He can't pass door stop without playing with the spring in it...or turning off/on the water faucets outside.
We have a cabinet filled with paperware/picnic stuff - that still has child locks. I hate to clean up all of the stuff
