Protecting TV from baby, suggestions?

Looking for suggestions on how to protect the TV from my nephew, some reason the female side of my family dont respect electronics so while im at work all day they dont care about trying to teach my nephew to stop touching the tv and stand which is bad for him and bad for me! Got attached to my Panasonic ST50... the last line of plasmas and my best TV purchase ever :(.

I had an idea of something like a 3 panel 'gate' like you get the single panel for staircases but I am having a really bad day and cant seem to find any, my Googlefu is horrendus today so I would appreciate any help regarding this, so far I have found a 6 panel play pen which allows you to move the panels anyway you want but its £80... I dont need this all I need is a simple metal panel that is short enough to see the tv but sturdy enough to stop him attempting to touch the tv.

Old picture but its pretty much the same apart from a different tv
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Help appreciated!

Search ebay for "folding dog run"

They don't have to be set up as a pen like in the pictures, I've set mine up as a slightly zig-zag'd fence to protect my AV kit from my brothers dog when it's around.

Maybe it'll work for a baby too?

Lindam Safe and Secure Metal Playpen comes with wall mounts, covers our TV and fireplace along with enough room for my 5 year old to keep all her crap he keeps trying to frigging eat :shocked2:

I had some massive velcro straps so one ends attached to the rad and the other the settee rather than drill the wall.

Hmm, this is why i liked tube TV's as they could fall on babies, therefore teaching them quicker not to mess with your electronics

ha techtorpedo.
trying turning off the backlight and lowering the brightness or buy a mounting bracket (for the tv).
the good old days when radiation and static coming off your tv would keep the kids away.

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ha techtorpedo.
trying turning off the backlight and lowering the brightness

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you don't have kids do you? :|

Fireguard

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We still have a CRT; about 20kg worth and pretty robust. Not so worried about it.. How old is said nephew? From about 18 most months you can put the fear of god into them. Persuade him it will kill him in a loud, excited but serious voice over and over again while holding his fore arm and pointing at the dangerzone. Repeat whenever you see him encroaching. I did that with plug sockets and it seems to have worked okay. The fore arm grab stops them escaping :). If you can't disciine them they'll get someone's else's TV :(

As an alternative; A cheap table would raise if off the floor to safety. If your sofa is far enough back it should be okay to n your neck.

Moat ?

Was going to say chloroform but wasn't too PC

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get one of those and put it in another room

That kid's expression! At risk of being constructive; think like a baby/young child. Lie on the floor, and imagine all the equipment,etc to explore, and also dangerous surfaces to fall on. I used shelves and kid proof plugs. My son used to play happily for hours in the lounge on his own, listening to classical music. Distraction is also good, get something more interesting. Good luck!

You cannot protect anything from babies/toddlers. The only thing you can do is make it difficult and be around.

They will find the weakpoint and WILL exploit it.

Get some of that electrified cattle fence stuff, no only will it keep your nephew away, it will teach others that going near the TV is bad for them.

Spray it all in jungle formula. It tastes rank and when said nephew touches screen/stand then inevitably puts hand in mouth (which kids do) it will hopefully make him stay away.

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Spray it all in jungle formula. It tastes rank and when said nephew touches screen/stand then inevitably puts hand in mouth (which kids do) it will hopefully make him stay away.

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Get hold of some Bitrex "In 1982, Bitrex® was officially recognised as the world’s most bitter substance by the Guinness Book of Records – in fact it is so bitter that a teaspoon full of Bitrex® would still be tasted in an Olympic sized swimming pool!"

If it works to stop pigs cannibalising each other's tails, then surely it'll stop a child using deejayburnout's theory...

I mounted the TV on the wall, out of reach. It wasn't ideal, it wreaked the surround sound layout, but I didn't have to clean dried yoghurt off the screen every time I wanted to watch something.

OFC now the kids are older, I can't get near the thing anyway.

Wall mount is the safest solution. I wall mounted my old LCD and moved the cooler equipment into a glass fronted bookcase (a billy from Ikea - no handle so hard to open) and put the hot youview box on top! Not elegant but pretty safe. Stands just don't work well with kids i'm afraid.

When my boy was young, we IGNORED him doing ANYTHING that we disliked but that was safe.. and distacted him to something better/more fun..far away from the thing that needed avoiding..... Ignoring the thing that is being done wrong..utterly ignoring it.. and immediately doing something utterly different and over the other side of the room, worked.

Toy car being rolled up wall, potentially marking the wall...ignored, started playing with a toy myself on the floor until I was spotted, and it was worth the risk of the wall maybe being marked just once for it never being done again.

Firewood from basket picked up and dropped... put sofa cushion on the floor and put a favourite toy on it.. and push toy over... utterely different thing.. and WHEN not being watched put fire wood back in the basket...so zero attention is placed on fire basket

the list went on, and on, but ONLY when told nicely NOT to do something, did he then repeat it.. for attention I assume.

Friends kids were /are beiong told no .. no.. no.. over and over and it simply makes it all worse, it seems.

There is one greater benefit to the system.. when you DO shout "NO" at maximum volume, which was so very very rare, the boy crumbled into a sobbing heap and never.. ever... ever went near the electric plugs again.

In short it's like training a dog. Dont pull the chewed slipper out from it's mouth.. distract it to a game with a ball and then subtly take the slipper away.

With this TV situation, over a long weekend, quite simply distract the kid from the TV antics with anything else and UTTERLY IGNORE what's occured to the TV. Don't buff the screen, or make any fuss at all... don't take the kid away from the TV.. simply do something a LOT more interesting elsewhere immediately.

My boy is now 8. I can trust him with guns, chainsaws, knives etc. I don't let him use them, unnattended .. but I can leave him with them, to stand over/by them.. and he knows to do as he's told. No fuss. No stress.

as an additon, I had an open fire when he was young...(dangerous) and moved to a log stove when he was about 4 (more dangerous.. a LOT hotter and stuck out in the room, waiting to be touched, fallen against)

I had a fire guard to stop toys flying into the fire.. and sparks flying out. It was not to deter him from sticking his body in.. though had he tripped it would have caught him.

When the stove was fitted, he was of talking age, but still he needed a lesson. So I immitated burning my hand on it, and I sobbed piteously... and he caught on immediately.

He was always very somber about it when his mates visited, though it was rarely on when people visited who we didn't know had experience of a fire/stove.


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But... my TV got slaughtered by a host of visiting kids. A very very stern quiet talking too and a clearly bullish stance sorts most kids visiting my home. But when it didn't.....
or in the Opening Posters case, not his kids, to train..... the foldable FIREGUARD is a good idea. Ebay.. cheap.. and once you'd done with it, it's AWESOME for making camps in the garden in summer, with a blanket :)

I wall mounted mine, albeit too late to stop the damage.

My little one had splatted fruity hand prints on the TV, and in culmination of using Dettol (my bad) I wiped away the anti-reflective coating.

Get your TV on the wall!

Broken egg shells on the floor surrounding TV