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.

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[jenett]

I was also not good at reading baby safety manuals, apparently.

The day my parents decided to get rid of the crib went like this:

- Mom puts me in my crib for a nap, and raises the side (and if I remember right, the sides were pretty high - a good 3.5 feet at least.)

- She lies down to read on the day bed in my room and falls asleep.

- Time passes

- I climb out of the crib all by myself, and then down, and toddle across the floor to the day bed.

- She wakes up to me tugging on her elbow, and manages not to panic. Mostly.

They looked at this, and figured that a bed was probably safer, all round, than my experimenting more with climbing.