Do you let your 3yr old walk up and down steps (brick or otherwise) unsupervised???

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Yes or no?

• me I'm a big resounding yes - my life would be hell if I didn't (although I'd probably be a lot fitter ).

well i let my 2 year old do it....

of course, who doesn't?

depends on the child. If they lived in a bungalow and weren't used to stairs, then possibly not

Yes, well, she's 4 now but she has dyspraxia and other SN even.

We live in a 2nd floor flat at present and I can't carry both her and her 2 stone sister up, so she has to walk it.

Ummm, not at JUST 3, he was very very impetuous, and very cl;umsy. Once he was well into 3, yes.

ahh now I must admit I do have stairgates.....but that's more to keep them out of places I don't want them than to protect from stairs (as witnesses by the fact that DS1 had 4 tumbles downstairs, DS2 has had 1)........

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yes

i let my just 2 yo walk down steps also

and do all sorts of other stuff.

Er, yes. I don't understand this question - who doesn't?

sorry - linked to this thread

I'd certainly let my nearly two and a half year old walk down steps - but I wouldn't let her jump down four brick steps onto a concrete surface, no. And I would be very, very angry if I found out she was doing this unsupervised, at a nursery.

are you sure you mean 3?

2 I could understand but 3?

Yes my 3 year old walked up and down stairs and steps but he is very steady on his feet and was from the age of 2

aloha - it's not a nursery it's a school.

The point is, this child wasn't walking, he was jumping - down four brick steps onto a concrete surface, completely unsupervised, in an environment where his parents had a reasonable expectation that he would be supervised and prevented from doing something so clearly dangerous.

He was obviously in the nursery part of the school at three. he wouldn't be at school proper at three.

just seen other thread I think the relevant bit is "only one teacher on duty supervising 59 pupils"

for 3 year olds? I thought there were minimum stff-child ratios for children under 5

certainly in our pre-school there are 3 staff members for 25 children

I let my 2.5yo dd walk up & down the 5 concrete steps leading up to our front gate. She's very independent (always has been) & won't allow anyone to help her.

That said she did tumble off the side of the steps on our way out yesterday & land in the garden - the long grass cushioned her fall but the rose bush scratched her arm. Didn't stop her insisting on tackling them again herself tho'.

aloha - several children are coming out of the school together - one decides to jump - how do you stop it happening? hold the hand of each and every one?

i let my 2yr old go up and down steps

sometimes im not even in the same room

i think she did it before she was 2

omg

Nailpolish, for a start, children that young should not have unsupervised access to brick steps, and be left to play wild jumping games onto concrete with nobody present. A playground for nursery children should be safe and supervised. I have just been to see various nurseries for dd and all have enclosed, safe play areas and are well supervised. It's not that difficult or unreasonable to expect this.