Christmas trees and toddlers... a recipe for disaster?

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I've always had a christmas tree even before we had ds, dh has always thought I was silly and it was a waste of money. Last Christmas it was ok with ds because he was only three months old, but now he's coming up to 14 months, he'll be 15 months at Christmas time would it be madness to have a tree? Do they pull them over? We have quite a small flat and a small living room so I usually go for a tall skinny one. Don't really have room to put it on a table, but even then I was worried ds would grab the light cables and pull. How do you manage? Do you just have some firm NO!s for a few days until they get the message the tree is off limits? I feel a bit sorry for ds, a tree is afterall a big sparkly coloured thing just dying to be tugged at, but I can't face clearing up billions of needles and dirty water every time it topples.

I know! He loves all kinds of lights, we have multicoloured lights in his bedroom and he loves gazing at them after his bath as he winds down for bed. We have one of those three legged stands for our tree, I wonder if there's something a bit sturdier perhaps? I guess we'll have to do what we used to do with our cat, put the decorations a big higher so she can't use them as toys (the cat that is. Lost many a bauble to her playfulness!)

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we have had a tree each year - the boys touch some things, not others, but it is always a fresh tree from our local tree farm and they are very prickly so they only touch once or twice each year.

But breakable baubles further up and buy some nice wooden ornaments - but beware as still got small parts and choking hazard - to put further down. That's what I did anyway. Have got a kitten now so back to supervising the tree. Previous kitten did bite through fairy light cable.