Are toys getting lame?

[Peter]

Baby-proofing is cowardly. 

Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.

Puppy-proofing a house is also sanity-saving, especially when they're teething and would love to have a good chew on any loose electrical cables.  I also removed all the foxgloves from the garden when Waggy was teething, since she was chewing any plant that found itself in front of her nose.

[RageBeoulve]

Baby-proofing is cowardly. 

Baby-proofing your house is sanity-saving if you have an inquisitive baby, but you shouldn't baby-proof the entire planet.

Puppy-proofing a house is also sanity-saving, especially when they're teething and would love to have a good chew on any loose electrical cables.  I also removed all the foxgloves from the garden when Waggy was teething, since she was chewing any plant that found itself in front of her nose.

Lord kittens are even worse, because they can climb and get into things you didn't think were possible. Plus if it smells good, they'll lick. One of my cats almost cut the tip of their tongue off doing that. And my scottish kilt cat likes to hide shiny stuff. To save an explanation, a scottish kilt is a munchkin/scottish folt mix.

[Natalia Evans]

My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.

That's a really good start.

What about power outlets?

Do you have any stairs or houseplants?

Do you have any blind or curtain cords that would be within a baby's reach?

Are cleaning materials stored under the kitchen or bathrom sinks where a baby could get to them?  If so, do you have cabinet locks for these doors?

No to them all but I have a green bean plant but it's on the table. The pot is plastic and the curtains are pretty high up but a toddler could reach them.

My mother didn't have locks on the cabinets, she just watched us. She probably had them put up in a high place. I heard some people put a poison sticker on items so their child knows it isn't food but you have to teach them what the sticker means. I don't remember getting into the stuff under the sink or anywhere else but I helped myself to the fridge and to the pantry where my my mother kept the food.

[Callaway]

My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.

That's a really good start.

What about power outlets?

Do you have any stairs or houseplants?

Do you have any blind or curtain cords that would be within a baby's reach?

Are cleaning materials stored under the kitchen or bathrom sinks where a baby could get to them?  If so, do you have cabinet locks for these doors?

No to them all but I have a green bean plant but it's on the table. The pot is plastic and the curtains are pretty high up but a toddler could reach them.

My mother didn't have locks on the cabinets, she just watched us. She probably had them put up in a high place. I heard some people put a poison sticker on items so their child knows it isn't food but you have to teach them what the sticker means. I don't remember getting into the stuff under the sink or anywhere else but I helped myself to the fridge and to the pantry where my my mother kept the food.

My mom didn't have cabinet locks either, but I did.  You're right that it's no substitute for watching the baby, though. 

It would just slow them down a little from danger for those moments when you are distracted by the phone ringing or something.

I ate nearly a whole bottle of baby aspirins, which I got from the highest shelf in the upper cabinet when I was little.  I was a climber.

[TheoK]

I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 

[RageBeoulve]

I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 

What kind? Just rock climbing or did you tackle something serious?

[TheoK]

I was a climber too. It's brave to be a climber. 

What kind? Just rock climbing or did you tackle something serious?

I climbed indoors when I was a baby. 

We don't have mountains high enough for serious climbing where I live.

[RageBeoulve]

Oh lol. I took my crib apart. Like disassembled it.

[ALLDAYGLOWRANDY]

They are, but I come up with knew ones as the days goes on.

Its my mind, its turning out to the one of the bigger toys.

I would drop playing with it for a few just to get sex.

[Natalia Evans]

My mother told me I took my things apart when I was a baby.

[Coral]

I put one of those plastic safety 1st gates in my son's doorway of his bedroom and he climbed it in no time when he was a little older than 1. I had to put another gate on top of that to keep him in. His bedroom was at the top of a long staircase so climbing the gate and escaping was totally unsafe! He looked like a little prisoner hanging on the lower gate screaming to get out when he figured out he couldn't scale the double gate door I made for him. In hindsight it's pretty funny so see a little guy in his fuzzy romper clinging to the gate and screaming "me out!".  Wish I could do that now, but a ten year old just wouldn't be funny!... or would it???

[Callaway]

We just gated off the hallways leading to our stairs.  In the place we had when our daughter learned to walk, the stairs going upstairs had no risers and they were directly over the stairs going to the basement, which would have been a significant fall had she gone through the gaps and fallen.

[Christopher McCandless]

My apartment is already baby proofed. I hardly have any breakable things.

Are you having babies or just bringing them home?

[Natalia Evans]

I want to have a baby but never got pregnant yet. I decided to wait till marriage to try again. I have a wedding dress picked out and I don't want it to get small.

[Natalia Evans]

I put one of those plastic safety 1st gates in my son's doorway of his bedroom and he climbed it in no time when he was a little older than 1. I had to put another gate on top of that to keep him in. His bedroom was at the top of a long staircase so climbing the gate and escaping was totally unsafe! He looked like a little prisoner hanging on the lower gate screaming to get out when he figured out he couldn't scale the double gate door I made for him. In hindsight it's pretty funny so see a little guy in his fuzzy romper clinging to the gate and screaming "me out!".  Wish I could do that now, but a ten year old just wouldn't be funny!... or would it???

I remember my parents having a toddler gate in my doorway of my bedroom. It was to keep me from leaving my room and falling down the stairs. I have fallen down them a few times so my parents always kept a gate in my doorway so I wouldn't leave my room if I woke up.

But I started to kick it out one day. I lied down and kept kicking it till it fell over. One day it fell on me and my dad woke up and I cried. I don't think my brother was born yet when it happened.