While safety isn't usually a major concern when entertaining adults, it should be the primary concern if small children will be present. Take baby showers for example, the odds are fairly high that your friends are at similar life stages as you and there's a chance infants and toddlers will be running around your place. Seems like as good a time as any to baby-proof your place. Knowing your place is baby-friendly will also set the people you invite at ease and increase the likelihood they will attend.

For events like children's birthday parties, it's just as important to mark off areas where children shouldn't be allowed and place expensive, breakable or dangerous items out of reach and locked away. If you're not throwing a pool party, be sure to have a gate up around the pool. Read More...