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To ask what age did you remove safety gates

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McHappyPants2012 · 11/04/2012 21:21

Dd will be soon 3 and I am debating if I should remove them. She has one on her bedroom door and there is one on the kitchen door.

Wibu to remove them or is she too young

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Magneto · 11/04/2012 21:23

Can she climb over them already? and how good is she at going down stairs?

Mrsjay · 11/04/2012 21:24

I had 1 on the kitchen door until i fell over the bugger dd1 was 2ish , i didnt bother with dd2 she was fine and wouldnt really come into the kitchen and if she did i sat her on a chair ,

Mrsjay · 11/04/2012 21:24

I didnt have 1 over the bedroom we live in a flat so no stiars to tumble down ,

CalmaLlamaDown · 11/04/2012 21:24

Kept the one at top of stairs until ds was nearly 5, was paranoid that he would sleepwalk and tumble down then, but like i say, i am bit paranoid..

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McHappyPants2012 · 11/04/2012 21:26

She is fine on the stairs But can't climb over the gates

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McHappyPants2012 · 11/04/2012 21:27

Llama that's what I keep thinking the what ifs

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WorraLiberty · 11/04/2012 21:27

Yeah I had sleepwalkers and so kept the one at the top of the stairs for a few years.

Mind you, the stairs start directly outside their bedroom door.

feedthegoat · 11/04/2012 21:27

We got rid of them all a month after 2nd birthday. We moved house 4 days before christmas to find our gates didn't fit anywhere in the house. We weren't organised before christmas and once we'd got through a week without them unscathed we decided not to bother.

feedthegoat · 11/04/2012 21:27

Shakey1500 · 11/04/2012 21:28

Hands up, DS will be 5 in August and I still have a stair gate at the top of the stairs. My reasoning being that he is incredibly clumsy and I have visions of him tumbling down the stairs whilst trying to navigate his sleepy self across the landing, past the top of the stairs, en route to the bathroom.

He has a seemingly permanent set of bruises on his legs from falling over, has two left feet bless him I don't know when I'll take it off. We have not long lived in this house also so the layout is still a bit new.

TreacleSoda · 11/04/2012 21:28

I only had one at the top of the stairs and I think we removed it when DD was about 2 1/2 or 3. She was very sensible going up and down the stairs and had never sleep walked, so we no longer felt the need for it.

Meglet · 11/04/2012 21:28

DC's are 5.5 and 3.7.

We still have one at the top of the stairs for crowd control and so I can hear the mad axe murderers coming up the stairs when he tries to open it.

And one on the kitchen door so they don't charge in when I'm cooking and cause an accident.

But we haven't needed them for over a year.

MousyMouse · 11/04/2012 21:35

2 years, because dc was able t open them...

mumnotmachine · 11/04/2012 21:40

I never had any stair gates, just trained the kids from an early age!

scuzy · 11/04/2012 21:57

ds turned 3 and i took down the stair gate at the bottom of the stairs. he is fine on the stairs. however left the one at top of stairs as if he wakes in middle of night he walks like a drunkard and is all over the shop.

WorraLiberty · 11/04/2012 21:58

I love tired kid's drunken walks

ValentineBombshell · 11/04/2012 22:02

Am just about to remove the bottom one, should have done it months ago as dc3(21m) has long been able to open and sit behind it - it's a favourite spot. Will keep the one at the top of the stairs though, which he can't open, as the upstairs bathroom is a place of wondrous adventure for him and it's useful to corral off part of the house.

scuzy · 11/04/2012 22:03

lol worraliberty its so cute he doesn't know his arse from his elbow when he wakes like that!

CoffeeDog · 11/04/2012 22:05

All mine went when the twin's turned 2. they had worked out from about 18mths that they could climb on each other to get over the gate then share the spoils....

Finally gave in at 2 when one had got over and the second was passing him his sister bedroom stool over the top of the gate so he could use it to reach the cherio's in the cuboard - They are men't for world domination i tell ya!!!

I now have a masking tape line on the floor which they are not allowed to cross without asking work's mostly except when the buggers pull it up

BertieBotts · 11/04/2012 22:05

DS is 3.5 and we still have them. Mainly for tantrum control and/or night time sleepwalking. Which he doesn't do.

He can open it though so probably irrelevant now.

ShowMethePony · 11/04/2012 22:06

Shakey, our neighbours still have theirs up and their youngest is 8. I think they just haven't got around to taking it down, the house is a bit like that.

OctopusSting · 11/04/2012 22:06

18 months

Anythingforabitofpeace · 11/04/2012 22:07

We never had any safety gates, anywhere. Never felt we needed them with DS just trained him what to touch and what not too. DD may be a whole different matter, we'll just wait ans see how she turns out.

highflyingbird · 11/04/2012 22:09

Never had one for any of mine. Up & down stairs absolutely fine from very very early on for all of them.

PartialToACupOfMilo · 11/04/2012 22:09

My dd's 2.4 and we don't use them anymore now. There is still one across the landing, but it's been open for the last few months and the only other one we had was to the kitchen and that's been taken down - though I don't remember why or when we did that!

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