Does anyone else feel like their toddler has a deathwish?

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DD is 16 months and she is absolutely lethal! She's always climbing and trying to get things she's not allowed. In the last month or so she's had so many injuries I'm surprised she hasn't caused herself any lasting damage. I seem to spend all day rescuing her from everywhere. I've babyproofed as much as I can but if I do any more I won't be able to move! Last night she put the hoover hose in her mouth while the hoover was on Luckily I was right there and managed to switch it off quickly. I had visions of her organs being sucked out of her mouth! Is anyone else's child like this? I'm going to be grey by the time she's two at this rate!

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LOL Yes. I try not to rescue now, but stay close and allow little accidents, and plan ahead. IF DS is going to jump off of the window sill onto the sofa, I remove anything hard from the floor in front in case he keeps tumbling.

Watching rather than reacting has taught me that my DS has actually learnt how to fall safely and tuck his head in. But, he's never put the live hoover in his mouth - lol.

She's okay though isn't she?

hee hee ..ive got one of those too!!!im gradually starting to back off as ive realised hes actually very capable and has amazing balance although not common sense!!!
He totally freaks everyone out at toddler group by standing on the top of the slide ..no hands going ta darrr!!! he`s only 15 months and climbs everything...i took the little step away from the kitchen so he went and dragged his brothers big drum there so he could stand on that and will frequently tip all of his toys out of a toy box to turn it over and climb on that to get somewhere..i often find him on the tops of cupboards..at 9 months old he managed to crawl up a slide onto a huge trampoling and sat in the middle grinning..hes so quick as well ..its not that i dont watch him..he waits till i turn my back or will angelically lead me out of the room only to race back into the previous room to do what he shouldnt be doin g...climbing!!!! im going grey!!! my other two never did anything like this..

She seems fine. After it happened I was frantically trying to make her talk, don't know what I thought it had done! I try to watch more than rescue but there's only so long I can leave her before I have to get her or she's going to break her neck. The other week I left her fiddling with the living room door handle after getting her down about 5 times. She went head first over the arm of the sofa. I just watch my friends' children happily playing while I'm dragging DD off tables. We left a baby group early on Friday as I couldn't handle any more danger or tantrums. Was a bit embarrassed tbh, noone else's children seem to be like that at the group. I had my mum on the phone before telling me I need to watch DD better so I'm feeling a bit worried about it. I do watch her, she's just quicker than me! Glad to know other children are the same as her.

our highcahir has rubbish straps and DS2's favourite trick is to get out of them and stand on the tray clapping!

oh god my 16 month old is exactly like this! he seems to spend most of his day getting told 'no joseph, don't touch' or 'awww baby did you bump your head again?!!! let mummy kiss it better'. grrrrrr! the christmas decorations are proving irrisistable, i even put the tree on top of the sideboard so he couldn't pull it on himself and i caught him scaling the sideboard to reach it earlier as he banged his chin on the corner, cue more hysterical crying

Ah yes I remember that stage well - DD running with forks directly at plug sockets.

It does pass and incidentally for the record, the A&E staff are quite used to seeing bizarre toddler accidents (mostly wedging/bumping accidents).

the annoying thing is that he hysterically screams if i try and prevent him from doing it too so sometimes it just feels like there's no point in intervening (as long as he can't actually do himself serious damage!)

My DS get invited to soft play birthday parties quite a bit these days, but whilst the other kids are jumping around in the 'soft' play area, mine is climbing on the adults tables of hot tea, interfering with the sweet dispensing machines and swinging on the toilet doors.

Why?

Yes, my dd is 13mo and shaping up like this, were yours early walkers? She is just into everything, does the piling up toys to get to stuff thing, today at my nans there were little chairs for the kids and whilst her cousins sat on theirs dd stood up on hers and climbed on the table, she has broken doors at nursery and at my mums she seems to find danger that her cousins never investigated. We are always getting accident forms saying babywonder was doing x and then lost concentration/didn't look where she was going. I've given up on toddler group as whilst other mums sit with their coffee I'm chasing dd round saying no darling! At least she has learnt to fall well, before she worked that out it was terrifying.

my ds walked at 11 months so not ever so early but deffinitely not late, even before that he was a loon though, always wanted to reach things he couldn't have, screamed if he couldn't get them. has never ever sat still since he got crawling! he just seems to be on a mission from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed and will not tolerate any intervention or guidance!

Kinda! Just before 11 months. Can't get him to watch tv for love nor chocolate!

DD was a complete loon from when she could walk (12 months) until she was about 3.6 (she's now 3.11). I began to seriously worry that she had some sort of danger awareness deficiency. It was very very wearing.

oh yeah, when are they meant to engage in the tv and actually sit till for 5 minutes!?? my ds just does not seem interested at all, he has to be on the move and touching everything, i am sure it's normal but it does seem a little extreme with him. he has absolutely no fear what so ever and i am getting close to having a heart attack sometimes when he's tottering on the edge of the sofa or climbing up to reach the mantle piece, argghh!

Thanks everyone, looks like DD's not on her own then Just down from putting her to bed, where she tried to keep herself awake by banging her head on the arm of rocking chair. I mean, why would you?! DD wasn't an early walker really, about 11 1/2 months. She became good at it quickly though. I think it's because she's small, it's not so much effort to climb etc. Her favourite thing atm is to stand on the edge of the sofa and bounce, shouting 'boing, boing!' No wonder I feel old! She used to sit still for ITNG, but now she watches it while doing dangerous things

Oh yes. 'Careful' is the word I seem to use most frequently with 15 month old DD. I bought her a little shopping trolley - I thought she could push it around but mostly she likes to climb into it and wait for someone to push her.

'Be Barebull* was one of my DS's first words! He says it just before launching himself off of something high.

I feel better reading this that I'm not the only one constantly chasing a toddler around to see what danger they're getting into now. Ds2 is far more daring than ds1 ever was. He has already had a cut forehead from a fall off the settee, and this morning had another bump on his head from the same thing - and that's despite me almost constantly watching him. I left the room for less than a minute the other day and returned to find him standing on a chair with a pair of scissors in his hand (ok I shouldn't have left them in the middle of the table but ds1 just wouldn't have climbed to find them!) Maybe we can console ourselves with the fact that they're little adventurers who'll go far!!

Starlight thats brilliant LOL.
My DD was 11mo too, which was a bit earlier than most of her peers, I swear she learnt to crawl before she learnt to sit up, whilst other mothers could plonk thier babies down and chat at coffee mornings I was hovering over dd who was investigating the other babies, using them to pull herself up and things.
I like that idea bananabrain. She certainly keeps me entertained.

be warned, it gets worse as they get older

dd is almost 4 and ds is 2.5 and they're getting worse by the day, i have to watch them like a hawk 24/7 and it's exhausting.

other peoples kids can go 10 mins without doing themselves damge but not my 2!

dd's playschool teacher told me recently 'i wouldn't be able for your kids pink'.... this from a woman with 2 boys and who teaches 20 toddlers

thanks everyone ..youre making me feel better I was wondering whether i had an hyperactive child..always inquisitive from the day he was born!!literally..the drs and midwife both remarked how alert he was for someone so tiny!!!the only advice a dr gave me[thanks [hmmm] was it usually means theyre very bright!!thanks but id rather have an average child then..
the other day i literally went in to his room toget his towel from his bedroom[next door] whilst i was running the bath..next minute splish splash and a giggle as a mobile phone and a book went into the bath.. im sooo knackered by the end of the day and dh wonders why the house is a tip!!! the other day he turned the oven off[dont know when] while i was cooking something..had to guess the remaining time..
If i go anywhere im usually chasing him from electric socket/switch/cable/anything climbable whilst all the other children sit quietly and play WITH toys..