Twin Toddlers ages 1-2

Kittycat196

My guys are both walking now and are non stop go go go

They don't want to be contained in a play area for more than a few mins, they start to cry and scream to get out. If I let them roam around the house they get tired of playing with their toys and start banging on the tv and doing other stuff they know they are not suppose to do . They still think the word "no" is funny.

It is exhausting running around after them. I guess I am just looking for some advice or anyone else going through this?

When do they calm down alittle? 

 

 

atc282

I remember feeling the same way around the 1 year mark. We actually took down the Kids Zone play gate b/c all they wanted to do was be out of it. We just rearranged our living room/kitchen areas to be toddler proof (i.e. locks and rearranging of certain furniture pieces) so that they could roam around but not get into too much trouble!

In the kitchen, I purposely put tupperware and baby bowls/cups on the bottom 2 shelves that they loved to get into and thought they were getting away w/ something. That way, I could get dinner ready and yet they were in there too playing with tupperware and things they thought were really fun. 

I'd just keep telling them a firm "no" or say "don't touch" if they got around the X-mas tree (they had just turned one then) or tried messing with the cable box. Eventually, they got the message that it meant NO. 

Hang in there!

jenn_darrin1515

Once they can walk/run it does it get exhausting!  It also took my girls a while to get that "no" means no....but we just kept reinforcing it with safety issues and eventually it clicked...it did take a few months tho...(and some re-toddler proofing)...

I remember when I was making a playdate with one of my friends who has a dd a year older than the girls around the 1 year mark (my girls weren't walking yet) and she asked if my house was toddler-proofed or just baby-proofed and I was thinking "what's the difference?" oh yeah...there's a difference...GL!

kaitley44

My babies are the same, so we bought multiple superyards and opened them up to use them around the stuff we didn't want them to get to and then opened up the whole living room. We also made the bedroom attached to the living room into a play room and made it toddler proof, so they have two rooms they can go back and forth between. We also set up the living room and play room into play zones, so if they get bored with one zone, they just move to another.

gumiberg

with the exception of our bedroom and the office, i made the entire house toddler-proof.  they have a big playroom, each a bedroom and the livingroom.  I moved all the dangerous tupperwear to the higher drawers so they can only take out tupperwear and pots and pans.

its much easier this way because they can entertain themselves literally for hours and i can keep my eye on them but i dont need to stress about it.

we moved just before having them so we never got the opportunity to accumulate anything nice, anyway. i guess if we did, it would be packed up for the time being.