Any tips on getting my 18 month old to STOP climbing on chairs and then tables !

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I don't know how to stop him. It's constant and never stops.

I must remove him from the table / kitchen island 50 times a day.

Does he need an indoor climbing frame ?

He gets the chair, climbs them and then on the table- on repeat.

Any tips ?? It's SO annoying.

I remove him and tell him no, but it just continues.

He goes to nursery three days a week. He has plenty of outdoor time too. He has a slide outside he likes to climb up on etc.

It's so frustrating !

Ignore him. Let him do it. Pretend you’re unbothered.

He’ll soon stop if he’s not getting a reaction.

I worry that he'll fall ? Although to be fair, it never looks like he's going to fall.

dont leave him within reach of them

Move the chairs away from the island/ table. Then ignore him

He just drags them back to the table and or just jumps around on the actual chairs. Thankfully they're heavy so they don't fall over. We were in holiday in the summer and he did it to some plastic chairs and the chair toppled over and he fell.

My 12 month old daughter does this too.

We've just bought an indoor climbing frame for her off amazon and for outside when she can walk, we have a metal domed climbing frame.

Also, we have crash mats and cushions around so when she climbs up furniture, she has a soft landing if she does fall.

Playpen, although he might climb out of that too I guess.

It might be a stage that he gets through quickly.

Find him things to climb safely if it’s the climb he’s enjoying. Or does he want to be up on the worktop to be with you? Mine spent much of their time on the kitchen worktop while I was doing stuff- they’d guddle around with tubs and spoons etc or eat snacks tucked up there safely whilst I prepped food or whatever…
Teach him to climb backwards down off things and make sure he’s not allowed to jump off being caught etc… he needs to be allowed to feel the danger as it presents itself and not think he can walk off things unharmed…
”babies go backwards!” Downstairs, off sofas off worktops etc.

Teach him how to get down safely, by going backwards.

does he enjoy the stairs for the same reason? If so, redirect!

He's obsessed with the stairs. We have a stair gate at the top and bottom.

Every time I go up, he's desperate to climb over the stair gate- which is also dangerous as unfortunately our stair gate at the bottom of the stairs is on the third step up, as the banister doesn't go to the bottom of the stairs so we could only attach it on the third step up, which makes him climbing around there very dangerous.

I either have to take him upstairs with me ( he now likes to walk up and down the stairs holding my hand ) or I have to he very quick because it's dangerous that he hangs around at the bottom.

Pikler triangle.

That's just what toddlers do it's only natural, don't get mad at him.

Oh, determined little one!!
You’ll have to come up with something even more exciting to do! Building a den from sofa cushions etc…. Or just pick him up and put him on the table til he realises it’s boring….. or teach him to do it safely….( like going down the stairs backwards)
Also, this phase will pass

Gate on the kitchen door? Or have you got open plan, which means you've just got another 18 months or so of saying No and lifting him back off again 100 times a day?

My 20 month old has been the same for a while! She climbs on everything. As soon as she's finished her meal she'll climb on the table. Of course I put her off and say no but she doesn't give a toss. She'll drag chairs over to the side unit to climb on. Just last week she worked out how to scale the kitchen drawers to get on the worktop, so that's a new fun thing. They say in nursery they turn away for a moment and turn back and she's on top of something. My older boys never did this to this extent! Anyway, no help just solidarity...

Have you tried seeing where he goes with it. Let him climb, observe and see what's next?

And I'd also consider getting him down and then encouraging him to go back up. And keep doing that until he gets bored of climbing up and decides to do something else.

Burning the obsession out / making it boring has been more effective for us than trying to stop them.

Does it matter? He will grow out of it and I would just let him and show him how to get off again safely

I always admire kids who climb a lot its such a healthy activity!

Tie him up?

Sorry, some kids are just monkeys. I'll never forget standing outside Tesco with my mam as a kid as she'd bumped into someone she knew and was having a good natter and some woman shrieks "MY GOD THERE'S A CHILD ON THE ROOF" and it was my wee brother having scaled the building in the 3 minutes my mam had her eye off him.

You'll have fun with him for sure. If it's any consolation the climbers also tend to bounce if they do fall.

This.

Climbers will always find a way to climb and there will be times where he will manage to climb even with efforts to prevent it so it's important he knows how to get down safely. This includes stairs.

Also make sure your heavy furniture is bolted to the walls - I came out of the loo once to find my then 2yo DS three-quarters of the way up the front of the bookcase having used the shelves like a ladder. Put locks on the upstairs windows too and make sure any cords are tied up so he can't tangle in them.

This was my daughter at 12 months old in the first lockdown. Drove me mad. But in hindsight it was a short phase and she was practicing a skill so I would have tried to exercise more patience. Now, at 4, we take her to the climbing wall!

My Dd went from commando crawling to climbing before she learnt to walk. She just wasn’t content to stay in one place.

It was a long time ago but we bought her one of those tray tables with a seat on wheels. She whizzed around in that to her hearts content. Got up quite a speed too. The house had a good downstairs layout and the stairs were safely blocked.

option 1 - let him climb while you watch. teach him to get down safely. Keep doing this for 2-3 days and he may then feel 'I'm done with climbing' and will move on to a new skill. Similarly, teach him to go down the stairs feet first on his tummy - much safer than walking for a little one and more fun.

option 2 - get more stairgates and fence him away from all tables / chairs etc. but that will be hard.

I'd do option 1.

My son did this for a good few months, it was very irritating.

We made sure it was safe for him
if he did climb (no knives on counters/kettle and toaster switched off at the plug/cleaning things away etc) and he grew out of it eventually.

We tried a pickler triangle etc but he was always more interested in getting on to the kitchen counters.

His sister was never that persistent.

Put the chairs out of the kitchen, or gate the doorway so the baby is out of the kitchen.