I entitled this post, "Like father, like daughter" for the simple fact that Anne-Kelly learned to climb in the last day or two. Brent loves rock-climbing now as an adult, but the stories are many about Brent's climbs up various things as a child. Anne-Kelly's favorite thing to climb is stairs. She figured out how to climb just a few stairs from the sunken den at her Papa Tom's house, but has since graduated to trying to climb our stairs here in our living room. It's time to invest in a baby gate, people.
I'm sort of from the school of thought, however, that I don't want to completely babyproof my house because then she won't learn not to do things. Does that make sense? If you just barricade the stairs, how will she ever learn that she's not supposed to go up them when they are no longer barricaded? There are two ways of thinking about babyproofing, I've heard. Anyway, I think we are definitely getting a baby gate, but we aren't going overboard with all the other gadgets. For example, I only have one cabinet latch, and it is for the cabinet under the sink that has cleaning products in it. The rest of them have stuff in them like pots and pans and tupperware, which is Anne-Kelly's favorite. She drags it all out and has a grand time doing it.
Anyway, looks like this post has gone about as far as it can go. Anne-Kelly is crying and needs her mommy.
A quick update, however. This Thursday we are leaving to go to my parent's farm in Kentucky for the weekend. Joining us will be Brent's mom and brother, his McDaris grandparents (Gary's parents), Aunt Whitney and the kids, and my grandmothers. Possibly my brother too, I'm hoping. We should have a great time, I hope. Or we might drive each other nuts! We'll see. Just kidding about the nuts part, haha. Hope you're having a nice week!
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i agree with your babyproofing philosophy. our pastor's kids come over sometimes and one of the first times she came over over she said- your house is not kid friendly at all, you will have to change alot when you have kids. but the way i see it, i will teach my child that we dont climb on every piece of furniture, etc. they have to learn sometime right??
ReplyDeleteI agree with your approach. Eric and I have put hazardous chemicals up high away from Eli, and have relocated a decorative wine rack with empty glass bottles. Everything else stays...he already know what "no" means. He doesn't always obey, but he does know!
ReplyDeleteHi, I came over from Hillary Warlick's blog... just wanted to say I have a similar philosophy about baby proofing! With my kids, I haven't had much trouble teaching them that some things are just off limits. (Obviously any safely issues are already taken care of.) I think it's a great way to start teaching them to respect the things around them, you know? I have a low cupboard with all the kids' cups and bowls and I love that I can tell my daughter (3) to get her own cup of water or bowl for her snack. :) Occasionally my son (14 months) empties the entire thing, but I say it's a good way to teach them how to clean up!
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