how do you (or did you) keep your toddler out of the kitchen bin!!?!

[lunarx]

ds, 19 months today, has a fixation with our kitchen bin like nothing else in the house, his toybox, nothing. he loves it.

i've tried scolding him. "no bin" and taking him from it. he only laughs. and i hold a deadpan serious face.

do they make a bin safety lock/latch? have you used another kind of safety device on it? how did it work?

for the time being, i am keeping the bin in the downstairs bathroom, which luckily, is ajoined to the kitchen. sigh!!

Could you adopt a little bin on the worktop approach, just to keep it out of reach?

Ds (3) took an orange pip to the bin this morning, and returned with an extremely stale (and half eaten) fairy cake that had been chucked out earlier on.

It's just a phase, no solution except to say it will pass .

this too will pass. The DTs don't find the bin nearly as exciting as they used to.

same here with my 15 mths old bin as she loves opening it and closing it and be there for ages... this morning she was eating out of the bin!!! !! (ive already just fed her too!!)

We don't have a door to our kitchen but wanted to keep dd out (cat food, litter tray, bin etc) so we put a stairgate across it, at a height such that the cat could still get under it, but dd couldn't.

Oh yes, the bin obsession phase, I reckon your ds is right on cue. We had to make do without a bin in the kitchen for a few months, which is a bit of a bore but less yucky than fishing slop-covered toys out of it.

thanks for the reassurance..! he sees us putting stuff in it, so he puts his toys in it. i guess keeping it out of his way is the only solution right now. some battles aren't worth fighting!!