Chair, then the bench, then the table. He stands in the middle and waves at us like a politician on a balcony. We've pushed the chairs against the wall, but we can't live like that forever. Do people babyproof everything at this stage, or teach them to climb down and accept a few bumps? We have a lot of glass-top furniture that I'm suddenly looking at very differently.
Reading this at 1 am with a 6 month old who has just learnt to roll, and I've added 'anchor the bookshelf' to my weekend list. Whatever you decide about the table, get the tall furniture fixed to the wall first. That's the one bit I wouldn't leave to learning.
Correct, wall fixing first. My daughter at 2 years pulled out the bottom drawer of the TV unit and stood on it, and the full unit came forward. I was right there, luckily. After that we put L clamps on everything tall. On night duty now, reading this in the break.
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Clamps into the wall or into the floor? Our walls sound hollow in a few places.
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Went and checked. Bookshelf is solid, TV unit wobbles when I push it. That's today sorted.
Glass tops and corners at his eye height worried me most at that age. We put the glass coffee table in storage for about a year and nobody missed it. Climbing we mostly allowed with someone close by, and taught him to come down feet first.
How long did feet first take to stick? Our daughter understood it on the sofa at that age but not on anything taller, and the sofa was the only place she ever practised.
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