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window guards
So, what's the take on window guards for apartments? In NYC, you're required to have them permanently fixed on all windows of apartments with little kids (other than windows opening onto a fire escape). NYC law requires that all "child guards" must be permanently fixed to the window frame and unopenable. (Brilliant!)
Our local fire house, however, recommended (off the record) that at least one window in every room should have no guards (because if there are guards they can't get in, and even the openable ones usually aren't really openable from the outside, in addition to being illegal as child guards). So per fire department advice, we would have child guards on exactly one window in our apartment, which is blocked by furniture anyway.
Combine this with the fact that trepidation kid climbs like a monkey, and several times already he's gotten stuck hanging 4 feet off the ground, having scaled the window guards like a maniac rock-climber and unable to get down. And since the apartment is going to be hermetically sealed for air conditioning until September, I'm inclined just to take the damn things off and rethink in the fall.
Opinions?
I am, however, seriously considering putting kiddie gates up on the stairs on and off the fire escape/patio, just in case the trepidation kid manages to jimmy the door open. What the hell, it's no more illegal than the hibachi the upstairs neighbors have on theirs.
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