Dd has just turned 19 months and is a little live wire to say the least.
She strops, and throws tantrums, which I tend to ignore and she gets over them quickly, I can see other people giving me the pitying glance, but generally I can deal with that.
However, she is a climber. She climbs on everything and anything be it indoors or outside. I've learnt to deal with this by risk assessing the area and if its safe to do so (surface not to high) then I let her carry on.
Inevitably she falls a lot, she's a tough cookie and she generally will just laugh and carry on what she is doing.
In the last week there has been two occasions where she has fallen, one being at the park, and one in the play centre where she fell down a step. Each time the surfaces where very low and she was at no risk of serious harm and she got up with no crying and not hurt.
However, the other parents all dash over to her and fuss around her to see if she's okay and look at me like I'm the worst mum ever and not taking care of her properly.
I've asked for advice on how to stop the climbing and I've been told what I'm doing is fine, and really I can't stop her and have to let her learn, but I just can't get over the looks that I get off other mums, it's making me feel awful and like I should do more.