10mth Old, CLIMBING STAIRS

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I have a climber too, DS managed to get up a 4ft ladder when he was 13 months LOL

Hehe i think she watches her sister, A got 9ft up a ladder a couple of wks ago
Thanks girls, the funny thing is she has onyl just started crawling and it's not even crawling it's this weird butt shuffle thing BUT she has taken steps behind a few things so maybe she's just skipping straight to the fun stuff

[allycat06]

Wowee that would have given you a shock ZF!

DS is almost 18 months now and climbs the most challenging things yet flatly refuses to walk!

[Ozziehoffy]

ZF... woohoo on bum shuffling lol... Oskar was a bum shuffler and I love it! So cute

As for the stairs... we started with teaching the kids to go down either on their bums or turned onto tummy and kinda doing that slide down. Elijah will go on his bum. Our internal stairs we still have blocked top and bottom. Top mainly because of the obvious, if the kids are playing and knock each other we don't want them falling down a dozen or so stairs. Bottom, well yeah I need Elijah not to just take off on his own up them. He does go up and down the cubby stairs.. 4 or 5 I think and he seems to be ok doing that now. I've only recently allowed him to do it on his own though. I just started watching from where he couldn't see until I was sure he seemed to be confident and mastering it. It's tough with stairs isn't it!

[onthefly]

DS was climbing stairs at that age. He loved them. Mind you, we don't have any at home and my parents' place only has 4 steps so it wasn't really dangerous. I just made sure to teach him the best way to climb down as well (backwards, feet first).

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Thanks everyone, i am trying to teach her to go down the stairs backwards.. will see how we go, having 2 lots of stairs is a PITA.. DD1 feel down the top stairs once, she had mastered them and was fine until 1 day she decided to give them a go and DP hadn't turned the hall light on, it was still a little dark... i was nearly sick.. she fell down 10 stairs

[~Kim~]

Teaching her how to do it safely while supervised for a bit is a great idea. Otherwise they just test their own theories.
I promise that is coming from sympathy and empathy. DD had a loft bed when DS was little so she could have her own space that he couldn't get to.....until one day just a bit after he was 8months old (and was bear crawling) and he got to the top of the bunk ladder....all by himself

[Ozziehoffy]

ZF... it's very scary when they fall down the stairs isn't it.... Oskar did the same thing, got himself to the top before I knew it but fell down even faster... luckily at that age they go floppy rather than try to brace so it was more of a scare. I think it scared me more than him though!