Dear Lord, I have a climber....

[SarahJinx]

....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!

We're not helping are we OP?

Yeah, no.

I'm whitefaced.

Luckily they're so fricking pretty is all I can say.

Mine loves the oven also, has a quick touch then, 'ooh, ot ot!' and I say yes, it is hot, leave it alone, to which he replies 'ot mum, ot' and touches it again.....

Everyone thinks its funny! It is but its knackering, my nerves are shredded!!

Thank the lord for childcare.....!

Window sills! DS loves to stand on windows sills.

Also, he does an excellent Indiana Jones move, where he climbs into the toybox, over the stairgate/room partition thing, onto the rocking horse the other side, then down and off! My friends look on in horror.

We are in the process of taking the gates down, just keeping the bedroom one up, as he is pretty much a free range kind of toddler these days......

DS2 - 16 months - is just like this. I remove him from the dining table/windowsill/garden table/climbing frame hourly.

DS1 wasn't a climber, and boy has this been a shock to the system!

He has learned to pick the lock on the TV cabinet with the prong on DH's belt

Hi Ali you were on the April 2011 PN Group? Me too, excpet ds was two weeks late, so offically a May blossom!

Hope you're well and not too exhausted by your little burglar to be!

Bright my climb every thing DD1 certainly is and a natural scientist, curious about everything. But she's now 14 and not in the least sporty. She does love swimming, but not competitively.

I feel so much better having read this thread. I also have a climber - he will be 2 next week and I am constantly having to remove him from things. I went into his room yesterday after about 1 minute away from him to do d him sitting on top of his chest of drawers reading a book! I didn't know whether to be horrified or impressed. I tend to flit between the two!

He also doesn't understand that no means no! Very cute but exhausting!

DS2 is a climber already at 11mo. DS1 not so much, but when they are both on form, it's like herding frigging cats.

While I was making tea tonight, DS2 managed to push a little chair up to the sofa, and climb up onto it, climb over the arm, onto the coffee table, in order to get the phone. He'll be on the windowsill next.

Ds1 climbed at 7mo, but he was more considered and didn't take risks. He was very safe on the stairs and generally wouldn't climb somewhere he couldn't get down from. He was hard work but compared with ds2! (rocks in the corner giggling manically.)

Sarah - yes! DS2 was actually born 28th March, but I stuck with the April PN thread. One of our number is due again in a few weeks!!

I know what you all mean. This morning a complete stranger at the park said to that DS has no sense of danger. He's nearly 14 months but very tall and knows how to open doors. This morning he tried to use a wheelybug as a step to climb to something he couldn't reach. I can't leave him in his own at all.