Now I know that there are child safe caps on many medications.  I also know that my 9 year old can open them.  I recomend keeping medications in a cabinet up where they are hard even for an adult to reach.  Keeping them in a medicine cabinet is a bad idea, kids can easily reach it,  and humidity is bad for medication.  I kept ours above our kitchen sink untill I realized that someone had helped themselves to an entire bottle of my husbands medication, which he had prior to back surgery, and that our oldest two kids could climb up on the cabinet and reach it.  I have since moved the perscription meds to the safe in our room, which we purchased to keep the guns away from the kids, and the regular medication I put in a box in a cabinet high up where I have to stand on something to reach.  It is a pain, but it would be horrible for one of my kiddos to get into it and take something and me not know what it was and how much they took.  Well that covers the home front, but check out grandma and grandpas house next time you are there.  Ours keeps pain medicine and vitamins on a table next to where they sit, BAD IDEA!  Way to easy for the kids to get into and no one ever even know it.  Any where you leave your kids it is your responsibility to check, ask where they keep that kind of thing, if you think you will be overstepping your bounds mabey they are not the best person to leave your children in the care of.  Check your purse and car for loose pills you may have dropped also.  It is amazing what kids will find and where.