just remind me, i cant remember, what do 12-18 months do?

[jimijack]

PND completely skewed and clouded my views on behaviour with ds1.
He's 10 now.
I have ds2 who is 12 months. Lordy lordy the bairn is into EVERYTHING. I found him up 2 floors, 2 sets of stairs this morning..So apparently he climbs stairs now.
He can undo child locks on cupboards with ease. Walking since he was 9 months so very mobile.
My mum looks after him a few days a week & has had to completely rearrange her house.
He hates being strapped into the car seat and chucks massive tantrums which bemused us all. We kinda step over him and carry on so he gets nowhere.

When I think back, ds1 was worse than this and I thought there was something wrong with him as friends kids at the same age were nothing like that.

So, is your 12 month like this?

My ds2 is 15 months and exactly what you have described. He's also into kitchen cupboards and drawers (puts his hand through the small gap the safety locks allow), he's started throwing the odd tantrum - throwing himself on the floor and kicking and whining - usually when I've pulled him out of the cupboard/drawer.

He's also just learned to climb on the sofa so I spend quite a bit of the day stopping him falling off the side. The rest of the day is spent picking up toys, food from the cupboard, washing from the machine and wipes that he's kindly strewn everywhere.

It's no wonder the house is nowhere near how I want it to be. At the moment I focus on keeping ds2 safe and the house clean enough and tidy-ish. Anything else is a bonus.

Yes. 15 months now, walking and climbing since about 10 months. In to everything. Has started talking. Can run. Tantrums galore. After severam failures at 12 months I did finally get some cupboard locks that she can't open, she's not interested in them now.

They're all different though. Her cousin a month younger is very placid, doesn't walk or climb yet.

Ha! Thanks so much for replying.

The massive difference with Dr2 is that rather than distressing and stressing & depressing me, he amuses and makes me laugh so much with his little ways.

Glad he is doing what he should be doing.
Smiling away here!

My dd3 is 14 months and a terror! She's been walking since 9 months so can get up quite a speed now, throws herself all over the couch, legs it up the stairs if one of her sisters leaves the door open and screams her head off if we stop her doing anything. She's definitely a handful.

I've always found this stage very difficult, am looking forward to her getting a bit bigger and hopefully a bit less dangerous.

Sounds well within normal. Mindless mission of destruction & exploration.

My first child was very placid and calm. He played with toys in the manner they'd been invented, he carefully examined his books, and not one item did he dent or damage. He was slow to climb, hop and run and, when he did so, he did so very carefully. He's barely had a bump or bruise all his life.

My second child is... er. Mental? She was climbing as soon as she realised she had four limbs. She roars. She bashes any two items together with glee. She climbed the stairs at an age so young we hadn't even thought of baby gates. She hates pushchairs and car seats - it's like trying to strap in a lynx. She is enormously, frighteningly loud and I am pretty certain my neighbours just got soundproofing.

She is awesome :) I mean, yes, it's loud and messy and mad, but she's bloomin' hilarious. It's lovely to see how the two play well together, as DS becomes a bit more risk-taking and she will sometimes sit an examine a puzzle... for a short time. Then she'll bash him with it.

Sounds about par for the course. One day I was drying my hair, turned round & instead of playing with toys ds was halfway round the windowsill! I had no idea he could climb like that!

Belacoros awesome is a perfect description! Love it.

I was sure that child number 2 would be one of those calm children that I have heard of...that's 2 mad arsed kids I own now.
Ha! Who cares, they are happy & healthy.