A stairs non-clicky poll

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Do you let LO "do" stairs? 

utlawgirl

Yep, although I stay right there with her. She's pretty good at them. We only have one flight of 3 steps in our house, though, so I think my answer would be different if we had a two-story!

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We do.  And she's pretty good at them.  I don't leave her unsupervised, but I am getting to the point where I feel comfortable letting her go up/down the stairs without me right there (and by this I mean 4 feet away or less).  I've started not putting up the gate to the stairs all the time now, because she's fine to go up/down.  I still gate it if I want her on the main floor though. 

She walks holding our hands to the car and wants to navigate the front steps now too, so I'm trying to leave 5 mins earlier so that I'm not frustrated about being late - I don't want her to see my frustration as "I'm mad at YOU kid!" 

 

lswivel

Yes. We usually have the baby gate up to prevent him from getting up there, but when its bed time, diaper change time etc, we let him go up himself.

smithpaint

utlawgirl:

Yep, although I stay right there with her. She's pretty good at them. We only have one flight of 3 steps in our house, though, so I think my answer would be different if we had a two-story!

This is similar to us - we have one flight of 13 steps.  I always stay with him when he climbs up them.  He can't get back down yet on his own. 

EMOmamma

Yes, we have so many stairs in our house that we try to let him do them a lot.  However, no matter what we do he won't go down them backwards.  He'll do maybe 2 steps then turn around or try to go forward from the top and gets pissed when I keep turning him around and refuse to move.  I don't know what else to try.  He just won't do it.  H and I have been going down backwards whenever he is watching but that doesn't seem to be helping.  (thus the falling incident the other day)  If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear it!

lilmgirl

Yes we do.  Although he's supposed to be supervised (i.e. someone right behind him), H failed at that one earlier this week and Kami fell down them.   He's ok, but scared the shiit out of him.

kmiller1012

Yes, C goes up and down them all the time.  I keep an eye on him but he is really good at it.  He knows to turn around and he slides down.  He has going up and down the stairs since around 8 mos.

Mommysaurus123

We do, but only if we are right with him. Otherwise he turns around and looks to see if we're watching him, and when he does that, he falls. (Last night he moved the gate out of the way of the stairs and started to climb because I'd gone upstairs. He heard DH come in through the garage, turned to look to see DH, and fell down 2 steps to the floor.)

JLSmith124

Yes, every night on the way up to tubby time. We stand right behind them, but they are both pretty good on the stairs.

amberleeb

She goes up them like a pro always with one of us right behind her.  Down that is a different story, we have been trying to teach her but she just does not get it!

lulu8109

Yes.  DH usually lets him go up the stairs from the basement to the main floor, which are carpeted.  I've let him do half the flight of stairs up to the top floor.  It's hardwood and slippery = scary.  We've always been right behind him.

bosha711

yes

kat81again2

with us watching. he is great going up and has been that way for months. But he hasn't figured out how to turn around to go down backwards. He can go down if there is a railing with rods. He just walks down, using them for stability. 

JoJoMama730

I let her go up, but she's pretty wobbly still so I am right behind her with my hands hovering at her side. She hasn't figured out how to go down yet and just gets ticked off when I try to show her.

kj07

He got pretty good pretty quickly at crawling up.  His problem is that if he gets distracted he still tries to turn and sit, not realizing that the stair doesn't extend for infinity behind him.  So he's closely supervised at this point.

Oddly he has no interest in going down the stairs, backwards or forwards.

welshgirl

Mommysaurus123:

We do, but only if we are right with him. Otherwise he turns around and looks to see if we're watching him, and when he does that, he falls. (Last night he moved the gate out of the way of the stairs and started to climb because I'd gone upstairs. He heard DH come in through the garage, turned to look to see DH, and fell down 2 steps to the floor.)

This is a problem we had for a loooong time with DS. He'd be distracted on the stairs, nad it wasn't that he wasn't perfectly able to go up and down, but he was a toddler and would turn to look at something and then wobble.

M crawls up, not down, and isn't great. We dont' go upstairs much, just a few times a day. I'll keep stair gates on for another year at least - it only takes the one time, no matter how good she is, to lose balance and fall.