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Parenting & Farm Kids:  Climbing, any suggestions?  |
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shelbyc
True Blue Farmgirl
72 Posts
shannon
murdale
british columbia
Canada
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 Posted - Sep 19 2012 : 4:03:43 PM
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| My little 20m old daughter is very active, which is a good thing I guess. Right now she is continually trying to climb up on the chairs, stools, table and island. I spend so much time taking her down and telling her no no, I have even given her a swat on the butt. Nothing seems to make any difference, she still tries all day everyday, and I'm afraid she's going to get hurt. I try to be constistant as well. I know this is all probably normal toddler behavior, but does anyone have any ideas on managing it? |
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Sep 19 2012 : 6:42:07 PM
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we have the same problem with my 11 month old, pretty much we just have to keep him away from all that. At about 20 months though we couldn't take it any longer with DD2, so we decided to just help her learn to climb safely. And would practice with her, I have a lot of silblngs though and we would all wear ourselves out doing this over and over again round robbining it! lol
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J.F. Brown
True Blue Farmgirl
130 Posts
Jamie
Beaverton
OR
USA
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Posted - Sep 20 2012 : 12:46:54 PM
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| Heather, I just love your comments! Having had a climber ( well, they all were, but my second was the...best? worst?) I remember the choice to just end up teaching safety, and what was and wasn't climbable!Otherwise, 'Monkeychild' as we called her, would just climb anyway. |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Sep 21 2012 : 10:58:36 AM
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I have had all climbers. It is very tirin and stressful. I have found just givin in to it and helpin them as much as possible is the only way for me. I have made many trips to the er to check for concussions and get a few stitches, but they will climb no matter what in my experiance. I guess it is all a matter of safety and how much you are able to take from either side of the situation.
I was a climber as a child. Still am! I love a good tree!
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sue5901
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Sue
Wellingborough
United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 23 2012 : 11:04:53 AM
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Hi
I run physical activity classes for children aged 6 months to seven years and so spend most of each day teaching toddlers to climb!!!! But as the others say - to climb safely and most importantly to learn to get back down again safely - most accidents happen when trying to come down not when climbing up.
Our key tips are
1/ keep your child in bare feet as much as possible to enable them to learn to feel where their feet are going and to grip.
2/ Teach them to come down backwards - when at the top to turn round and come down facing what they have climbed not looking outwards - this is significantly safer
3/ When helping your child learn to climb or balance hold them by the back of their shirt - NOT THEIR ARMS - this enables the child to learn to balance for themselves and to climb whilst enabling you to hold them up if they fall.
4/ Offer as many different small opportunities to climb and balance whenever you can to enable them to gain skills in a simple way they can then use when climbing more challenging obstacles
5/ Do lots and lots of action rhymes and songs with them - espicially those that encourage the child to identify parts of their bodies - then they will understand instructions you may give them to help them get down and will have the body control to carry them out.
6/ If they insist on climbing something too dangerous - remove or secure the opportunity.
Overall remember - learning how to cope with bumps and bruises as a child is how an adult learns to cope with the bumps and bruises life will inevitably throw at them.
However my friend and I both put our children through the physical activity programme and my daughter is now a firefighter and her son is now a tree surgeon - sometime I think they just got too good and confident at climbing!!!!!
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shelbyc
True Blue Farmgirl
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shannon
murdale
british columbia
Canada
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Posted - Sep 25 2012 : 9:19:02 PM
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| Thank you all so much for your ideas and support. It is stressfull at times,and tiring. I may just have to go with it and we can help teach her to climb up and down safely. |
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