San Francisco Dad

Baby Security

Now that SFBaby is “extremely mobile” (for example, running around and climbing up and down stairs), we’ve had to rethink our approach to babyproofing. The sofas are no longer a challenge for her to ascend, so the first few times she tried walking on the sofa, we warned her to get off.

Of course, SFBaby thought that this was funny and now she deliberately tries to get up on the sofas and run around to catch our attention. We’ve tried directing even more “stern parental attention” her way, but that just seems to make her want to do it even more.

All of the baby experts claim that she is still too young to understand this form of discipline and that if we ignore the situation, she will tire of it. So, we tried that…and a few falls and one big tumble later, she is still going at it. Although she emerged remarkably unscathed from all of this, we need to come up with some other options. Maybe turning the sofas around so that they face the wall? We’re at a loss.

Tags: baby, babyproofing, boundaries, climbing, discipline, locker, locks, security, sofa

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• friendly neighbor to the north says:

  June 9 2009 at 11:43 am

  Have you thought of investing in a insulated michelin-man outfit? or an inflatable airbag onesy? Or just redoing the floors in white padding? I hear it’s the new black..

  We were lucky that Friendly Baby to the North (FBN) was compliant enough to learn how to go backwards downstairs and off sofas BEFORE her defiant “hmm, and what is this NO thing of which you speak?” phase. (which we’ve entered now. the stereo is not safe.)

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