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Should I worry about toddler falling over stairs hand bannister

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ForRubyMoose · 30/05/2025 19:19

On my landing in my house I have terrace Victorian house with spindles and a hand banister at the top of the stairs.

Should I be worried the toddler will try to climb over the hand bannister and fall down the stairs?

Not my house in the picture but hard to describe.

Should I worry about toddler falling over stairs hand bannister
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Mulledjuice · 30/05/2025 19:29

How old is your child now and what level of mobility?

Will they be able to get out of one of the upstairs rooms by themselves? If not then they will always be supervised upstairs, no?

NuffSaidSam · 30/05/2025 19:29

If you've got a chair there like in the picture then move it.

With nothing to stand on nearby it's safe unless you've got a climber, in which case it could potentially be unsafe.

Nurseryquestions86 · 30/05/2025 19:28

I have the same and a 3 year old. They've never tried it. Also I doubt you'll be leaving them unsupervised on the landing anyway.

Pinkelephant66 · 30/05/2025 19:27

As long as you haven’t got chairs there that he could climb on to (like in the photo) I think he’ll be fine

Mulledjuice · 30/05/2025 19:26

With a chair next to it (or anything else he could climb on) yes.

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ForRubyMoose · 30/05/2025 19:26

Hollowvoice · 30/05/2025 19:23

Had something kind of similar in a previous house and to be honest it never occurred to me to worry about it, and DCs never tried to climb

I think about it way too much, can't shake that it's unsafe! Cry

I guess if he cabt get down the stairs (death stairs) he would come into my room?

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KrisAkabusi · 30/05/2025 19:25

Assuming your planning on putting a stair gate in, I dont really see your worry. There must be hundreds if thousands of homes with stairs to a landing like that. We have one and it never occurred to me that the kids might go over the barrier.

Hollowvoice · 30/05/2025 19:23

Had something kind of similar in a previous house and to be honest it never occurred to me to worry about it, and DCs never tried to climb

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