How do you stop a boy using a Tripp-Trapp as a ladder?

[nellyraggbagg]

DS (4 and three quarters) drives us bananas with his Tripp-Trapp. Either he uses it backwards as a ladder to climb onto the table/work surface, or he stands on the foot-rest and wobbles the entire chair around until it all goes crashing to the ground. He is at home with me full time, so spends a lot of time drawing etc at the kitchen table. We've tried giving him a 'proper' chair with a booster cushion so he can reach the table easily, but he can't get comfortable (if his legs are dangling over the end of the chair, his back is about three miles from the back-rest). Has anyone come across any solution to the chair problem?! I have warned him that he'll end up in Casualty (he has fallen off the pesky thing more times than I can even remember), but dire warnings have little effect on him!! (His 2-yr-old sister also has a Tripp-Trapp, so banishing his to the cellar would also have to mean banishing hers...!)

Mine use theirs a ladders too, but have never managed to make them fall over - I'm impressed. Does the hard word and the threat of no.....(fill in appropriate activity) work?

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Oh no... I was going to get one of these for DS when we move but he's a great climber and has very selective hearing and is horribly stubborn and defiant. Maybe I should rethink

If he wasn't using the TrippTrapp he'd only be using something else.

I've got a 2 yo climber, everything is a potential ladder to him -he constantly climbs things to "rescue kittens" ! I was hoping he'd grow out of it soon but maybe not .

I had a climber - on his tripp-trapp and thankfully he's grown out of it ... repeat after me 'this is a phase. this is a phase' ... oh and do the face joined with threats you intend to keep - I found that helped (although it did mean that he just climbed when I wasn't in the room ... )

Oh, we do selective hearing, stubbornness and defiance too - in spades!! But it is at least consoling to know that he is not the only one to engage in perilous Tripp-Trapp activity... and how reassuring to hear that ejt's climber grew out of it eventually!

The other day DH came into the kitchen and casually inquired "did you know that L can stand on the back of her (Tripp-Trapp) chair?" L is 18 months old. She was standing on the top edge of the back rest, not the seat.

Climbers will climb on anything. I have two of them, and I don't know what you do. Except give them plenty of opportunities for legitimate climbing (trees, climbing frames, soft play ...), in the vain hope that climbing in the house will become less of a novelty.

I am impressed that he can tip it over, though!