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anyone else got a 15mth old who just climbs .....

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hermykne · 30/10/2005 17:27

on everything, from the high stools in the kitchen to emptying a bin and turn ing it upside down to get up to the comouter.
he ll pull the dining chairs out and climb easily up onto the table.
i just am worn out liftig him, not so much worried about him falling - dh is - more the repetitve stubbornness of ds!

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hornbag · 30/10/2005 18:09

got a 16m DS who has just started climbing (dd never did this so its new to me!).
It all started last week when I turned my back for a minute and then found him standing on dd's little wooden chair. Took me a while to accept that he'd got himself up there!
He's now experimenting with what else he can climb on but hasn't quite sussed whats stable and what isn't/ what will hold his weight and what won't ( so we've had a few and moments)

moondog · 30/10/2005 18:11

Oooooooooooh yes!!!!
(Much bitter laughter)

Isit a boy thing?
Dd was never like this...

SenoraPostrophe · 30/10/2005 18:12

I have a 21 month old version.

he managed to get on our new table within 3 mins of delivery. also climbs up on the radiators to stand on the window sills (there are bars on the downstairs windows, but i still worry).

fuzzywuzzy · 30/10/2005 18:16

Don't think it is a boy thing.
I have 13 month dd, and today she managed to climb on to the windowsill using the Stokke tripp trappe highchair as some sort of ladder....the highchair still has the baby set attached, so I have no idea how madam managed it, but the shock of seeing dd2 peering out of the window all calm and serene has definitely taken a few years off my life!!!!

ruty · 30/10/2005 18:16

if i'm sitting on the armchair 13 month old ds climbs up my legs, and then putting his foot in my stomach manages to climb onto my shoulders and tries to crawl up to the top of the chair. I try to keep a tight grip!

chipkid · 30/10/2005 19:49

my ds was just he same-mow at 4 he still climbs every tree we pass and is usually the first to the top of the climbing frame. Fearless! My DD 12 months also likes to climb-but is more measured about it-she tests things to see if they hold her weight before scaling them.

Distracted · 30/10/2005 19:56

Oh yes - driving me mad! My 13 month old is forever climbing onto precarious things and he's not quite walking so is pretty precarious!

Think boys are more prone to do this, my dd never did it.

Don't tell me it goes on beyond the age of 4, I'll never survive

dinny · 30/10/2005 19:58

Hemrykyne, my ds is 13 months a total loon - thinks it is hilarous to throw himself off back of sofa and see me launch self into air to break his fall. just can't leave him for a second as he climbs up as high as humanly possible and then jumps. scary, isn't it? thought dd was hard work but she was a walk in the park compared to ds!

chipkid · 30/10/2005 20:01

the difference at four is that they have some sense and better balance-I remember my DS at 18 months climbing onto the kitchen table and diving off onto his head! onto a stone flagged floor! I was running towards him at the time (probably why he jumped off) thinking this is it this is curtains!! not a mark on him!!!! got a bit sick of going to casualty with him and would hate to read his medical records! must have "neglect" written all over them-he was such a handful! DD is a walk in the park.

spookyserenity · 30/10/2005 20:06

Definitely not just a boy thing. DD is far and away the worst of the three of them. Half the times I pick her up she ends up standing on my shoulders - she has no fear at all (it's a bit embarrassing actually that she can use my flab as footholds )

LadyTophamHatt · 30/10/2005 20:08

Ds1 was a climber when he was little.
We had to rearrange our living room so that he couldn't get to the shelves because we would have climbed those and the top one was over 6' high!!!!

It's weird because Ds2 wasn't such a bad climber when he was little but now Ds2 is the stunt man/speed demon/action man and Ds1 is always really cautious and careful now. They seem to have totally swapped.

littlerach · 30/10/2005 20:16

DD2 is a climber, she climbs onto a little stool, thne onto the sofa and stands shouting "mummy, mummeeeee, mumeeeeeeeee" until I appear. She then giggles and looks as though she is about to leap off.

She is 14 months and absolutely tiny, so sems even more odd!

DD1 didn't ever climb.

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hermykne · 30/10/2005 20:23

dinny that is hilarious! i have such a funny mental image of you!

its nuts

maybe if the 2nd child is a girl and 1st a boy then the girl is a bit more adventrous because my dd never attempted anything that ds does but he definitely watches all her moves now. but she doesnt climb to the table and sit grinning

what do all of you do ifthey fall?

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HerRoyalLovlinessMaloryTowers · 30/10/2005 20:24

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dinny · 30/10/2005 20:25

Hermy, I've never let him fall - have contorted myself incredibly to catch him (am incredibly over-protectve of him atm as he has health probs). He is so rufty-tufty though - he can honestly wrestle me to the ground and undo bra if he fancies a quick drink.

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hermykne · 30/10/2005 20:27

oh hes determined then!

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dinny · 30/10/2005 20:28

pmsl - he is a nutter. actually think I will be terrified of him when he's a teenager. thank goodness dh is quite tough. honestly, girls are soooooo much easier!

tegan · 30/10/2005 20:30

dd1 never climbed but dd2 (18mths) will climb on anything. We have found her on the dining table, in window sils, she has pulled chairs from dining room to kitchen to gain access to worktops.

madmarchscare · 30/10/2005 20:38

Yes DS (23mos) seems to be constantly looking for things to climb. If hes not climbing, he's running. Dont get a bl**dy minute when he's awake. Was climbing fairly confidently before he could walk IIRC. With sense of danger not developed yet, I can get pretty nervy at times.

albosmum · 30/10/2005 20:45

I think they all do! at this age

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hermykne · 30/10/2005 22:09

MADMARCHSCARE
i think i know youre "dont get a minute when hes awake"
i am the same until ds naps and thank god he naps for nearly 2 hrs in the day! sanity time.

it drives me nuts my garden is like a bog presently with the amount of rain we've had, so they just cant play outside even with waterproofs

but he loves outside

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longwaytogo · 30/10/2005 22:48

3 dd's never climbed but ds 19 months climbs, he is an absolute nutter. dd 3 didnt walk till 19 months so him climbing everything at the same age is a night mare, he stands with his arms stretched behind him and shouts ready, steady and then flings arms and body forward and go and boy oh boy there is no stopping him, looks like and angel though

triplethefun · 30/10/2005 23:54

My dd is a climber. When she was 13mths I left her for a couple of minutes in ds2's bedroom. I closed the window just in case ds2 who was almost 4 at that time had a kamikaze moment. He's not really the type but you never know.

Heard ds2 shouting and returned to find dd standing on the windowsill - very proud of herself! Apparently, she had hauled herself onto the bed using the duvet, then, pulling herself up with the curtains she stood on the radiator then onto the windowsill! She wasn't even walking at this time.

triplethefun · 31/10/2005 00:02

Also... left dd (now 17mths) downstairs while I nipped upstairs for a nappy, glanced out the window and saw a van driver staring up at me, went downstairs to find dd standing naked in the middle of the dining table on the phone.

Actually, seeing a pattern here, obviously I will have to get her sewn to my hip as I can never leave her alone again