You can, but you'd do better to partner it with a stereo integrated amp, through which you could feed your audio-only components. That would give you better all-round performance.
the only thing that worries me is having to volume controls with small kids thay love pressing buttons and i was reading about having one set to 12 oclock all the time .just worried if it got moved it might kill my speakers
There are a number of stereo amps with a fixed gain line level input which would give you the best of both worlds without the agro! eg roksan kandy K2 or the cambridge audio 840 to name a few.