Protecting Equipment from Children


My grandchildren are visiting this weekend.  They love buttons, knobs and remote controls.  Is there a good way to protect my equipment from destructive little hands?

aeschwartz

@jerrybj wow! So instead of teaching the munchkin some lessons of discipline, or taking a few very simple steps to possibly protect your system, you just binned it? That seems excessive to give up something you love to that degree rather than come up with a compromised solution. Wow.

@geof3 

Really? Wow. You are going to be so judgemental? How arrogant of you. You know nothing about me.

@geof3 Spot on! "Constant surveillance", "firm NO".

 

Worked for me, with two boys, up to a point: during a house move (we'd been there 16 years) we packed up my B&W 801M2s. As one of the speakers was wrapped up by the movers, a Titleist DT golf ball rolled out of the port. It had neither improved nor worsened the bass response. Its presence was inaudible which says something about the Matrix structure. Nobody knows how long it had been in there, I reckon at least 10 years...  😄

I have 2 lounges... One is mine.... Daddies lounge. Only adults allowed (if invited) 

Again, you are all so concerned about your precious gear, you should be more concerned about the kids…

My daughter knocked a stand mount speaker over when she was learning to walk. Thankfully, it didn’t land directly on her foot or toes as she would have lost a couple. It did make a perfect triangular hole in the floor however. Same daughter who at three years of age picked up my watch (which I had taken off so as not to scratch her with it - playtime) looked at it, looked at the wall, looked at me and whipped it across the room into the wall. 700 dollar repair… Same daughter who at 9 decided to play DJ with a friend using my TT. So long cantilever. My son thought the tubes in my amp were pretty, and he tried to pull one out when a toddler. Blisters on thumb and three fingers. Never tried that again. 
 

Kids break stuff, get over it. Anything lost, broken or stolen is just an opportunity to get something better. Lost, broken or stolen kids, not so easily replaced….