to think that my 2 year old should not be able to open a Lindam baby gate?

[loobyt]

Does anyone else have this problem?

If u read the lindam box it says not suitable for children over 12 months, thats cos they can open them!!! They are designed to keep crawling babies safe not curious toddlers!!!

Not good, they shouldn't be able to open it. My 2 year old used to shimmy over it, which wasn't good either!

I always think that toddlers who do stuff like this are displaying early signs of intelligence.

i think it also says somewhere in teh instructions taht they are only to be used under supervision.

Under supervision, yes, but the little monkey can get to the gate and open it before I can get to him! I agree bubbleOseven, definately displaying signs of intelligence (gets that from his Mum of course!)

well as he is over 12 months, you shouldn't be depending on it anyway.

I emailed Lindam a few months ago with the same problem and was given some facile nonsense about there being no substitute for supervision. The whole point of it was to stop her escaping from her bedroom and flushing stuff down the loo. (She can be very sneaky quiet when she's roaming the house in the wee small hours.) So apparently I am meant to sit up all night and try to catch her out.

I have since resolved to buy nothing made by Lindam in future.

My DD was just gone two at the time as well.

loobyt - it's time to get the one they advertise for dogs! (it looks the same, but is taller).

The curious ones do tend to be able to undo them quite early, you need to more complicated 'locks'!

Mind you - ours baffled the builder for quite some time, the 2 year old had to open it for him

I'm not 'depending' on it, I was just asking out of interest.

Sandyballs - bet that was interesting!

Neverpush - nice to see it's not just me with this problem!

ChipingIn - one for dogs, really? Sounds good to me! and yes, most visitors are totally unable to open the gates! Says something...

I posted ages ago, saying my then 2 year old sneaked downstairs and helped himself to breakfast. Posters told me I should use a gate, when I said he could open them, they replied that you can buy alarmed ones. There you go problem solved

Alarmed gates? Excellent, may wake the baby though!

I remember when dd learnt to open the stairgate

I hadnt been relying on it since she was 18 months and only shut it at night to prevent her falling down the stairs while walking about in the middle of the night. She never showed any interest in opening it.

Then when she was just turned two and the same week ds started to bum shuffle and it might have had a use again, she turned round and opened it.

Yeah my lindam gate is alarmed but i took batteries out cos it just encouraged my daughter to learn how to open it so she got the reward of a nice tune!!

Never underestimate a 2 year old. I had to get rid of our gate when my ds2 was 16 months he could open it then. Now at 2 he has been known to leave the room and come back smiling with a biscuit in hand. A biscuit from the biscuit tin whcih is on the top shelf of my over head kitchen cupboard. To do this he takes the lid off the pedal bin, stands on it climbs onto the worktop stands onto the worktop, opens cupboard , opens the tin and he's sorted. He even puts the lid back on the bsicuit tin.

It would be take a genius to make anything 2 year old proof ime.

at two year old having to open the gate for the builder

OP you have obviously bread some kind of super genius child

Might have to look into the alarmed gates...

Ledodgy your description makes me think of the squirrel challenges they do on wildlife programmes to get the peanuts. Obviously an infinitely superior one.
My ds doesn't like our fridge shouting at him when he leaves the door open too long whilst scavenging.

We had one that was difficult to open, was fabulous they were about 5 until they were strong enough to do it, kept all the adult visitors confused too

Ooh don't like to hear about children climbing on kitchen worktops [shudder]

Reminds me of the story about the little boy who climed over the cooker and accidently turned one of the gas knobs on and set fire to his pj's. Had 40% burns or something equally horrific and took ages to recover.

Sorry, will hijack elsewhere....

Sorry that was just (shudder) not a link to anything

Nothing is safe from a 2 yo on a mission ime. I've had four children like Ledodgy's DS. We didn't bother with stairgates or cupboard catches after no 1, just use constant vigilance. Luckily DD3 isn't quite tall enough at 13 months to vault out of the playpen...

I like covert surveillance so you can watch their tactics. Ds can't normally stop talking but when he is on a mission he's like a ninja.