How to teach 6 months old not to do things?

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My dd started crawling and she is allover the place. However her favorites are the places she is not allowed to go. As soon as I am out of the room she heads to the cables and chuws them. Another favorite place is shelves where she pulls whatever is in there. So far I was telling her no and I would remove her to her seat. It doesn't work, she goes back immediately.
Does anyone has a suggestion how to teach her not to do these things or should I simply remove everything she is not suppose to touch?
Vesna

Hi - yes - the last sentence!!! Remove/move all dangerous things, move some things temporarily - I had to move all plant pots from 8m to 12 months as my ds emptied each one in turn - come 13 months though and he stopped. Move your lo to another room and shut the door if nothing else works! FAR too early for any sort of discipline.

remove stuff and dont leave her alone. 6mo is too young to understand no

You can't, forget it. She's just too young. Just move things out of her reach and try to distract her when she goes for things that you don't want her to touch. It's even more difficult in other people's houses.

Yes agree with all previous posters.

I'd be interested to know when you can reasonably expect them to understand and remember. 12 months? 12 years?

somewhere in between, I think

actually I think they understand and remember quite early on - however their super egos ("consciences") are not developed enough to stop them from doing the forbidden but oh so interesting thing

babies and children are designed to explore and experiment - it is an incredibly strong drive in them, seeing as it is how they learn virtually everything about the world

most have to be really quite old to be reliably trusted to resist temptation

we hope so, anyway, Franny!

Agree, this is too young. The onus is on you to make your environment as safe as possible so that she can't touch things that are dangerous/precious. If she's touching things you don't want her to, all you can do is remove it/her and distract her with something else.

Far, far too young to be doing anything else.

She's a baby; looking and touching is how her brain develops!

Thank you all. When do babies start to understand no?

Thanks for that. At the moment DS clearly understands 'no' and is perfectly capable of stopping doing whatever it is, but dammit he doesn't want to and anyway I am sure he can tell that I am putting a serious face on just to avoid laughing at his cute expression.

The thing about the super egos makes sense.

How do baby animals learn not to eat poisonous things or that going away from mom is dangerous?

111 they are all so different I don't think there's an age where you can say they all understand it. Though as Franny said it's not so much about understanding, more about whether they can exercise the control; I'm pretty sure even a 1 yr old will understand a loud NO when their hand is whipped away from the fire or something!

Distraction is your biggest, best tool with babies and pre-school kids. Some kids are biddable and can accept No, for others it's a red rag to a bull and they enjoy the power struggle, if it's something they hear alot. Obviously we all have to say no to some, dangerous, things but it is a very over-used word IMO.

I'd focus on making the place safe and distraction.

Yes, it's normal and desirable NUT

Freud reckoned the super ego started to develop about age 3 IIRC and Piaget thought children reached full moral responsibility age about 10. So if we see the growth of conscience as a linear development, a 6 month old is not really going to have got off the starting blocks, and a 2 year old is going to be shaky at best

11273 children this young need pretty constant supervision

if there's something in your house you don't want them to have / that could hurt them, you must move it out of reach for quite some time

Children do often experience separation anxiety around the time they become mobile (nature's way of keeping them near to parent?) but you can't rely on natural reflexes to keep your child safe - that's your job

Ditto other responses. Six months is extremely young - whe is unable to understand, reason or even remember simple instructions. As a mother of an early crawler/walker etc, I know first hand that these physical developments can mask how very young your child is. My ds walked at 9 months and I had to remind myself - "he is not a toddler, he is a WALKING BABY" You need to make your home safe for a child this age, not expect her to understand danger - she is incapable of that (it is beyond the capability of even the most advanced 6 month old baby!)

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I do save NO for really dangerous things (DS is 12m) but even then I find myself saying it when really I should just get up and move him.

DS and I were at my mum's for a few days last week and it really shocked me how often she said no. I felt quite uncomfortable with it by the end of the week. I must have a word with her.

Yes it is apt to backfire on you when they start speaking

"All he ever says is "No!" It's driving me mad!"

Yes it was bad enough when he just went through a phase of shaking his head, even before he knew what no meant!