Teaching Baby to go DOWN stairs?

HighSchoolLove

He's learned to crawl up stairs. I found him 4 stairs up when I left him downstairs for a second to go up to get something. We're moving soon and will be single-story but my mom (who is also my daycare) has stairs and I can't babyproof forever.

When did you start teaching the baby how to get down the stairs? Should I start trying soon?

javasun

If he can go up, he can come down.  Teach him to come down backwards.

casncort

I would teach him to do down on his butt. My niece and nephew did that for years.

NikiGee

Maddie normally goes down on her butt or backwards. ?With that said, she's 2 and I still don't let her go down without out help. ?I am terrified of her falling so she always holds our hand going down. ?She's lightning fast at going up though.

NikiGee

Sorry... out = our

mzad

I've been tryin to teach her to go down the stairs backwards for months now.  All she wants to do is climb them back up.

daveshell1

slide down feet first on their belly. ?I would just kinda Emma do it, and she had it down by 10months... Aidan is another story, although I haven't worked on it with him.

424bride

Wow, I just had to say I am impressed that he can go up 4 stairs already at 8 months! 

brennrobert

I would teach him to slide down on his belly (DD is figuring this out right now), but I would still gate the stairs at your mom's. ?DD can go down a few stairs on her belly and gets off the couch, etc. correctly most of the time, but not 100% and if I'm not watching her, could still be in for a nasty fall. ?She also doesn't understand that she can't just turn and sit on the stairs since she can easily miss the step and end up tumbling. ?