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Constantly watching a 16 month old...

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sparklefarts · 21/02/2017 07:23

Our 16 month old is an excellent walker, rarely falls anymore etc. The flat has been baby proofed as much as possible and we obviously have no stairs.

The aibu....i think it's OK to let her wander a bit, say I'm in the living room and she walks off into her bedroom, I can hear her chatting away etc then she comes walking back. I leave her to it. My DH follows her and is always always shutting doors so she can't go walking off and he doesn't have to follow her. Our flats not big. Don't get me wrong if she wandered off and I couldn't hear her (ie to one of the further away rooms I'd follow her).
But it's making the mornings so difficult when we're both at work as he keeps shutting her in rooms with us or having one of us follow her so that getting ready takes forever.

Aibu. To think that she should be allowed to walk into different rooms and back? Or am I a bad parenting putting her in danger?

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Seeline · 21/02/2017 09:51

We had a baby gate across the kitchen and at top and bottom of the stairs. Other than that they were free to go where they liked. Also did little baby proofing beyond obviously moving chemicals/medicines.

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