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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just for your own child. Your child will make friends and have playdates with other kids. Their parents will bring their two year old to play with your two year old, but also bring their nine month old crawler. You don’t want that kid falling down the stairs. We kept the gate up until our youngest was four. [/quote]

This is fine but not our approach. We taught our kids early how to handle stairs. We also made sure the stairs had proper covering on them to reduce slips or falls. We didn't use baby gates past about 18 months. Once our kids were steady walkers, we started letting them play on the stairs with supervision until we felt comfortable enough just taking the gates down.

If people with babies come over, we deal with it the same way we would before we had kids at all -- keep an eye on the kids, or if we want to give them more freedom, go to an area of the house not near the stairs (or outside). I don't believe in eliminating risk though. I'm not going to let a 9 mo play on a stair landing unsupervised, but I'm also not going to keep baby gates up for 10 years just in case a 9 mo comes over and might be attracted to the stairs.[/quote]

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