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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Jan 2006
    Melbourne
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    My DH built a wooden gate at the top of the stairs that locks with a "pool gate" lock, worked a treat. That said, from about 18 months of age our boys were shown how to safely get up and down the stairs....

  2. #2
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Nov 2005
    Langwarrin. Victoria
    1,654

    you could do what my sister did and put a doona on the landing so if they did slip they had a soft landing...eventually he has to learn to negotiate the stairs and you can only save them from so much! If you teach him how to use the stairs safely maybe and pop the doona there just in case......