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Dear Lord, I have a climber....

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 20:57

....a glorious 15 month old Tasmanian devil of a climber. He's into everything at a million miles an hour. he's running about the bath trying to climb out, climbing on the tv stand/coffee table/sofas etc, I walk onto the living room and fund him happily sitting in his high chair....its exhausting, I'm so worried he's going to hurt himself (floors are wooden or tiled)and he's already all bruised. He throws things, whacks me/the wall/the telly with whatever he can find whilst laughing manically. So, he's fabulous but crazy, and crazy hard work. How do I keep him safe and make him understand no! When I say no he runs about gleefully screeching 'nonononono!!'.....please!

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Iatemyskinnyperson · 13/08/2012 21:04

Sorry but dont think there is a solution to this one except time!!! Maybe take the lo out to park lots to burn off some energy?

DottyWottyDooDah · 13/08/2012 21:05

Me too. He's only 23 months now, but has calmed down quite a lot. Still very active, but getting the common sense to go with his physical skill.

We go to the park lots - he likes to climb up and down the slide ladder (not slide down).

We are thinking of getting a trampoline to help him burn off. He currently uses our bed and my lovely expensive mattress is not what it once was...

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:08

See, I was afraid of that. what about discipline though, is he too little to understand yet?

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MrsNouveauRichards · 13/08/2012 21:08

Yes, here too. He is 2 this week and turning into a lovely little boy, but 16m and he was climbing out of highchairs while strapped in, out of trolleys and buggies and his cot. I found him on top of the fire guard on several occasions. It is exhausting. Lots of exercise, lots, like several hours a day helped us through.

Good luck!

Pozzled · 13/08/2012 21:16

No advice, but plenty of sympathy here. DD2 is 14 months, can climb into and out of her highchair, onto sofas, will be up the stairs in seconds if the stairgate is open, etc etc.

I'm concerned about her falling (wooden floors!) but I'm also running out of places to put small, dangerous items as she can reach most high shelves now. It's exhausting!

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:24

It bloody is exhausting! And also quite stressful, I'm back a work four days so he's at nursery - its a full on routine, 8am to 4.30, his pa picks him up and does dinner, I get home at 5.45....my poor DP is peeling spuds with one hand, extracting ds from the dishwasher with the other, its a whole other level isn't it, just when you think you have it cracked!

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Noqontrol · 13/08/2012 21:28

I have one of those, he's 2.5 yrs now and hasn't slowed down any. In fact I think he's getting worse!

BlackOutTheSun · 13/08/2012 21:29

Sounds like my 17 month old. She can open stairgate and doors.
The garden is my best friend

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:31

The day he works out the stairgate is the day I invest in some manner of cage! So seriously, grin and bear it, run around the garden, hope he doesn't break his head......?

And as for 'no!' forget it?

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Happiestinwellybobs · 13/08/2012 21:31

My 15 month launched herself (literally) into this phase a month ago. We continually seem to have bruises on her forehead. Her favourite trick is to climb on her Disney princess car and do a "look no hands!!". Have no advice but lots of empathy!! I am hoping that she will calm down but not looking likely at the moment.

iklboo · 13/08/2012 21:33

One of DS's first words was 'careful' cos he was such a bloody climber.

LargeGlassofRed · 13/08/2012 21:34

Think yourself lucky I have two of them! how they haven't killed themselfs yet is a miricle.
They are 3 now and still have no concept of safety and the climbing I caught dt2 the other day balanced ontop of a 7 ft fence! He managed to drag the slide over and climb up.
I have gone grey in the last 3 years.

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:38

Oh god.

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TunipTheVegemal · 13/08/2012 21:44

When my dc3 started climbing the only way I managed to contain it was by removing the enticing things he would climb up to get. So I started keeping kitchen tables and surfaces clear and that helped a lot.

I also had to resort to a playpen, aka The Baby Prison - he had a toy phone in there and I once found him saying plaintively into the phone, 'Ello? I'm in prison.'

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:45

Ha!!

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ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 13/08/2012 21:52

Oh dear. I think i have a climber-in-training. Only just turned one: can get upstairs faster than me, left him alone for seconds this morning & returned to find him sat in 'my seat' on sofa, thinks "no" means "how clever, keep doing that immensely dangerous thing you're trying"

You're telling me it gets worse?

BlackOutTheSun · 13/08/2012 21:53

Oh it gets worst, when you catch them climbing and start telling you no

Noqontrol · 13/08/2012 21:54

You can try saying no. Ds does listen to it, for about 3 mins, and then when my back is turned he's at it again. No is the most overused word in this house. He climbs onto windowsills and gets stuck, he cant open stairgates yet, but no matter, he launches himself over the top instead. He has no fear, he scales great heights, is covered in bruises, yet seems to feel no pain. He can run faster than me, if he gets a head start I have no chance, so I have to be constantly aware. And once he starts running he doesn't look back, just keeps on going!

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:57

Truth the sofa is my ds most fave climb, sits there, head back, all proud of himself. Trouble is only just learned to get down properly, will fling self about with wild abandon, and loves to stand on the arms. Once again, we have wooden floors, so I now can't leave him happily playing in the living room while I cook/clean/anything, its his new best game.

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 21:57

I keep reading your replies and snorting with laughter at the cuteness of it all, then I remember.....

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ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 13/08/2012 22:00

Joy! I already sign at least one accident form a week at nursery. Sigh.

DS is very sweet though (of course, he's my pfb!) When i say "no", he shakes his head. No idea how he's learnt this, but he looks unbearably cute and inevitably gets away with what he was doing

NorbertDentressangle · 13/08/2012 22:01

This brings back memories.

DS was a climber which was a real shock after having a non-climbing DD.

I vividly remember the first time I found him sitting on the dining table and thought to myself "eh? Who put DS there?".

It took a while for the penny to drop and for me to realise that he'd put himself there.

NoComet · 13/08/2012 22:01

There is light at the end of the tunnel DD1 stopped climbing everything when she was about 10.

She got much taller and heavier Nd hasn't the strength in her arms and wrists to be a serious rock climber.

She has a different dangerous hobby instead.

NoComet · 13/08/2012 22:03

DD1 could get on the dinning table before she could walk.
Which was long before she realised crawling over the edge was a bad idea!

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SarahJinx · 13/08/2012 22:03

Yeah me too, the pfb that is. I was telling a irl at work about him today, (She has two) her response? " Ah just let him do it, let him fall off, he won't do it again....."

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