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Toddler standing on chairs
How do you get your toddler to stop standing on chairs? Reed stands on chairs to look out the window, grab things off the counter, try and get at the microwave, etc. I always tell him to get down, we don't stand on chairs, etc. He can hop onto a kitchen chair in less than 2 seconds.
I have taken him to another room, distracted him, used my serious voice...We tried time out. It was a novelty and he LIKED it. He liked sitting on a special stool in the corner with no toys around. He actually stood on a chair, looked at me, got down, smiled and went over to the time out spot.
Any suggestions?
I read online that you can't get your kids to stop climbing, it is impossible so give them areas that are safe to climb...like a mountain of pillows. Done that too.
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Re: Toddler standing on chairs
turn them upside down. Or take them away.
(I'm not kidding, it works for us) and we use the corny "feet on the floor please" because it's tell her what I want, not what I don't.
OMG I am so with you on this question. We have tried the "sit down Lilah, be a good girl' she mocks us and says "No... and good girl"...
yesterday she got onto the top of the table to the lazy susan and kneeled on it to spin around.
I was sitting right there... so I gave her the freedom out of curiousity to see what she would do. DH says she has been eyeing the "sit and spin" for a while.
Hoping for good suggestions!!
Ella doesn't climb, but I'm thinking this is a phase that will hopefully pass. The only thing I can think of is trying to make the chairs even less accessible to him if that's possible???
Maybe as a present or a gift you can get him some sort of indoor jungle gym to replace his need for climbing things that shouldn't be climbed?
I can't take the chairs away...they are the ones we use to eat all of our meals! If he had a preference for the dining room chairs, I could get rid of those in a heartbeat!
Seriously...am I going to have to buy another baby gate and gate off the kitchen? Basically box us into the living room/dining room area???
I have a gate going into the hallway so he can't go up the stairs...and we use the whole first floor of the house for our daytime activities....
try turning them over. seriously. that broke Ava of her climbing in a couple days. Of course, I hear boys are notorious for climbing, so I may just have it easy.
Or make a "train" with them. Super fun!
We block all access to our dining room, so G only spends time there when he's eating. He doesnt' have much time to contemplate chair climbing.
I didn't do it because I didnt' want him on the chairs -- our dining room/kitchen are connected, and I just want him out of the kitchen -- there's too much that's hard to secure there and I don't want him in there without being supervised.
In terms of the living room, yeah he climbs on the couch, and has figured out how to climb on my computer chair, but he's not causing much trouble, so we're not curbing that behavior. He typically just gets in there and sits. We got him a little step stool from IKEA to help him get up to higher surfaces. He just knows that it's OK to be on the couch & the chair, but it's NOT OK to climb the entertainment center.
Yeah, I guess I would recommend you get an extra gate for the dining room.
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I think I'll just get another gate.
I plan on watching my niece when SIL goes back to work so I should just make it easier on myself and block the kitchen altogether.