It seems like forever since I've written here, but we've been working on getting things back into place, like our daily routine without visitors. We've also been making some big decisions about the next few months, which will be the subject of another post soon. This morning however, my little love bug displayed a desire for learning a new skill that I haven't seen from her before. She decided in the last few days that she wants to climb onto things. She has been using interesting household items like the Capri Sun boxes, or the Apple juice jugs as good places to sit, and has now graduated to trying to use them as step stools. This is not always effective, and she is now learning about gravity. This morning she tried to climb onto a chair all by herself. She made it, and had a tricky time turning around to sit down. She very quickly figured the whole thing out, and all day I have seen her quick as a flash crawl her way onto a chair, turn around smoothly, look at everything from her newly aquired vantage point, and then start to pick at her toes. She is even intent on getting down by herself, which is a bit more scary for Mom to watch. She still has trouble getting down from the bed, although she has figured out the couch and the stairs for the most part. I am so amazed at how quickly she has mastered the chairs, and am vigilant to be the net for while we learn about getting down. What a new adventure climbing is. It is as though she can hear her life soundtrack, and someone is belting at the top of their lungs "Climb every mountain!" from Sound of Music. She is just showing this urge to climb, to see new sights, and get into new things. Any ideas to keep her from climbing up the bookcase?
3 comments:
I don't know about climbing book cases but we put a cardboard box from our stair gate on our stairs and it worked for a really long time because our kid couldn't get a hand hold to climb. I don't know if you could use something like that in front of your book cases. Either that or rearrange your furniture so that like your couches block access to them or something like that.
Good Luck!
My girls are climbers also. I learned early on that I needed to let them climb, just specify the place. It took work but I gently reminded and pulled them off shelves, couches and other high dangerous things. I then take them to the park each day and show them where they can climb. They have a bunk bed in their room that they can climb on as well. I made sure to teach important rules like; use both hands and no jumping. It really does help them learn coordination quickly. Good luck.
We haven't really had the bookcases long enough for the kids to try climbing on, but we told them that they weren't supposed to get up there and that if they needed to get something to ask for Mommy or Daddy to come help them. It's worked so far, until Knut discovered he could get the step-stool and reach far enough to get the things that had been taken away.
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