Please send help.

[rivka]

As Is Well Known, baby walkers are deathtraps. Babies who are too young to walk are too young to have that kind of mobility; they wind up falling downstairs, getting tangled up in electric cords and tipping the walker over, rolling themselves into a hot radiator, etc. etc. etc. We'd never have one in the house.

However.

Colin does not read baby safety advice. He has figured out that he can stand up holding on to a small table, child-sized chair, highchair, laundry basket, or even a large toy, and walk wherever he wants by pushing it in front of him.

For extra credit, he crawls up onto the top of our toy garage and then attempts to climb from there onto the furniture.

We are so very dooooomed.

Comments

[ailbhe]

We always had baby walkers - the push-along kind with slow-turning wheels, not the sit-in kind - because they tip over a lot less than the impromptu sort and Linnea stared cruising furniture competently by six months. On the other hand, we live downstairs, and have stairgates, and so on, because I was still holding on to furniture to help me walk when L was six months. I wasn't aware that push-along things were considered a hazard, in fact.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware that push-along things were considered a hazard, in fact.

I don't think they are. Unless they are, for example, a highchair that is not meant to be pushed around from floor level, COLIN.

[ailbhe]

Ah, right, you were only talking about the sit-in baby walkers. Which, um, hinder development of walking, as well as being potentially dangerous.

If Colin really wants to get interesting, he can learn to undo the brake on the stroller and push it using the folding mechanism at the back. The wheels will turn really quickly and as he falls forwards the whole thing might fold up on top of him. Ask me how I know (we caught it just in time, but yeah).

Edit: We have this: http://www.vtechkids.com/product.cfm/Sit-to-Stand_Learning_Walker/479/

It is a good toy with no batteries, but kind of annoying with.