The screws, bolts, and/or other fasteners should all be in place. Are they loose? Will position of mattress hold under your baby's weight? It is imperative that this be tested before you put your baby in crib. Take something that approximates weight of your baby at about 4 months old. Bounce it off mattress to be certain it will hold its position. If it doesn't it could cause serious injury to your baby or worse.

When setting up nursery (if it isn't already up) consider very carefully where you will place crib. If you place crib near a window and you have Venetian blinds, either shorten cords or anchor them somewhere that your baby can't reach and get a hold of them. If it all possible avoid placing crib near window. As your baby grows into a toddler and s/he attempts to climb out of crib; s/he could possibly fall which could cause serious injury to your baby.

Blankets and your baby are not necessarily a good mix. With incidents of SIDS today, you want to be sure to do everything that could possibly put your infant at risk. It is more advisable to put your baby to bed in a sleeper. If you absolutely have to have a blanket on baby, tuck it tightly around and under foot of mattress with your baby's feet touching footboard. Also you don't want to put blanket any higher on baby than up to his chest as that will help prevent him from slipping under blankets and suffocating.

Bumper pads are a great concept but unless they are secured properly, there is a risk of your baby slipping between mattress and bumpers and possibly suffocating. If you use them they should be anchored in at least eight places one at each corner of crib and at least two spaced evenly on each of sides. There should be a total of 16 ties in all, for top and bottom.

Home-schoolers are a direct challenge to public-school monopoly. This monopoly makes it almost impossible to fire tenured public-school teachers or principals. As a result, tenure gives most teachers life-time guaranteed jobs. They get this incredible benefit only because public schools have a lock on our children’s education.

If public-school employees had to work for private schools and compete for their jobs in real world, they would lose their security-blanket tenure. That’s why school authorities view home-schooling parents who challenge their monopoly as a serious threat.

Many school officials also can’t stand fact that average parents who never went to college give their kids a better education than so-called public-school experts. Successful home-schooling parents therefore humiliate failed public schools by comparison.

Home-schooling parents also humiliate school authorities who claim that only certified or licensed teachers are qualified to teach children. Most home-schooling parents thankfully never stepped foot inside a so-called teacher college or university department of education. Yet these parents give their children a superior education compared to public-school educated kids.