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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Falling
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 10:04:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 10:04:00 1985
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Nf-From: umn-cs!smith    Apr  5 09:04:00 1985


  The stairway at our house is blocked by a technique that may work for
you:  the previous owners attached a small folding window shutter (of the
sort used indoors) to the wall of the stairway and placed a hook and
eye on the banister to latch it shut.  Also, find out how much cheap
carpet may be, or expensive carpet even.
  If your doctor couldn't find evidence of possible neurological damage
and didn't recommend close observation or hospitalization I don't see what
good staying home would do.  I'd surely trust our sitter to watch our kid
under similar circumstances.
  I remember that at a tender age I fell down a flight of thirteen uncarpeted
stairs ending on a cement floor.  I think I survived.  My mother did, too.

Rick.