But I do have to admit there is one fight I let go that I shouldn't. It's when Addie climbs on her chair and then climbs on the couch to jump on it. She does it over and over again. It will eventually ruin the couches but more than anything she knows she's not supposed to do it but sometimes I'm just too exhausted to do anything about it.
It all started here.
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When she thought surfing on an unstable object would be fun. Yes, baby, I'm sure it's fun but it's not safe. And you wouldn't have been laughing when you fell off that thing.
She quickly learned how to climb onto the couches, and the kitchen chairs, and it's gotten worse. She climbs onto the kitchen chair then to the kitchen table. She sits on the table and will play with anything up there; glass of water, mail, left over food from dinner. I have to admit it's funny to walk in and see her sitting up on the table, but it won't be when she falls off the table and breaks her leg.
I guess it could be worse. I could leave her unattended outside or something, but letting her climb on things is probably not a good idea.
Do you have any bad habits with your kids? Do you let them climb on the kitchen table and eat dinner from there?
-stephanie
Oh gosh we are totally headed towards that moment where I walk in and see Jack on the kitchen table. I might just have a heart attack haha
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh, I have a jumper/climber/dare devil. He scares me to death. This weekend I had a huge pile of laundry in the chair (waiting for my teenage helper to come over and fold it for me). My four year old was climbing to the top of this very unstable pile of clothes and launching himself across the living room. I freaked out when I saw him doing it.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, this is painting a great picture in my mind.
DeleteIt's difficult to balance the "no don't do that" because you don't want to scare them into never doing anything. You want them to have that freedom to make decisions on their own, but you also are terrified to let them.
My daughter jumps on the couch too... and her bed... and I know I shouldn't let her, but I just feel like she has so many 'No's' already, that this is one thing I just don't have the energy to enforce... and it really looks like so much fun! My biggest feeling for wanting to stop her is that I don't want her doing this at other people's places, because some people might care about their furniture more than we do :)
ReplyDeleteThat's part of the reason I don't want her climbing over everything.
DeleteOMG! Our daughter is starting the climbing phase now. Just today she tried to climb onto my bed and flew backwards off the bed. Oh the joys of motherhood!
ReplyDeleteDanielle - that's the scariest most traumatic thing I've experienced so far with Addie. I felt like such a terrible mom when she feel but they all fall at some point.
DeleteHaha we went through that phase with my son--one day my husband left him eating in his highchair to run to the bathroom for no more than two minutes... when he came back, my son was standing on the kitchen counter getting peanut butter from the cupboard. He had crawled/walked ALL the way around the entire kitchen counters to get over there--even over the stove. YIKES.
ReplyDeleteEmily - you have an escape artist! Out of the highchair across the counters and stove! I guess you can never leave him again :)
DeleteHi! I found you through the Wednesday Walkabout. My daughter is a climber also. She will climb and want to jump off stuff. Once a day I find her on her bathroom counter trying to smear soap all over herself.
ReplyDeleteHopping over from tottle along Tuesday. I am sure my little Shirley Temple tried the table thing when she was smaller, but it seems we got her out of that. She did still climb on quite a bit of other things after that.
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