Nowadays walking into some of your friends homes might leave you feeling like you'd walked into a kindergarten or pre-school instead. Child gates at every turn, socket covers and every even mildly sharp angle covered in rubber protectors (for the children of course and not the furniture). What can make this whole experience even more disturbing is realizing that his house is actually your own home. At some stage in the parenting process it stopped being a retreat for your and your spouse and became a childrens playground. What you need here is to find the balance between having your home look like a shopping center for child safety devices and an actual home.