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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey - I answered OPs question.  The people that sold us our house had 2 kids - when I had my first baby I was SHOCKED they did not use baby gates or baby proof their house cause I was as a first time mom, of course worried about everything. Come baby 2 and 3, I understood.  NO your baby will NOT fall down stairs.  They won't.  They may try to go down the stairs and not be able to and trip a little but on the way down they will definitely try to catch themselves.  It's your job to stop them from hurting themselves but my point is that they are MUCH more resilient than you think.  A 3 yr old can accidentally fall down stairs - they too will try to catch themselves if possible.  Hell, they do it once, the next time they will be really careful.  In fact they will learn really fast how to get down.  For example my daughter at 12 months on her own, never tried to walk down.  She would turn around and scoot down one step slowly at a time each stair which I thought was brilliant but of course she isn't really brilliant because a lot of babies will do that.  Did I teach her that?  No - she just isn't stupid (and I totally am not suggesting she's really smart - it's totally normal behavior).

Now do I think you can leave a kid unattended for any period of time?  NO.  Which is why I'm saying that if you are home you aren't really going to need gates absolutely.  If your house has like 4 stories well yeah duh. Maybe gates are good.  But depending on your home and common sense, I assure you any kid is going to do their best not to fall down the steps - this is what adults think is that they have no concept of helping themselves or wanting NOT to be hurt.  They've done a lot of studies on babies and what I am suggesting is that babies are smarter than you think they are.  OF course you have to use common sense but on the whole adults are much more prone to panicking is all I'm saying.  And yes, my kids are happy healthy kids who it seems like are really well adjusted.  There have been studies that prove for example that if you give kids sharp objects even at an early age, what happens is not that they end up maiming themselves but that they are less fearful and even better at doing certain things at an earlier age because they were given the opportunity to discover.  It's the adults who are always thinking worse case scenario.  It's the same thing in so many respects - as in these moms on this forum who complain about their kid doing this or not doing that - it's called discipline.  My first kid - I have like very little control over.  He pretty much ignores me like every other 5 yr old when they don't want to hear you.  My little one - I started disciplining her at just before 12 months and guess what?  She will eat all her food, she will clean up, she will do what I ask her because I started very early.  A lot of adults think that at 7 or 8 months or whatever, the baby is still a baby and you have to walk around tippy toe with them.  I got news - babies are SO SMART.  They know so much that you do not think they know.  They may not be capable of expressing themselves or yes, absolutely, accidents will happen if you don't watch them but by and large, my point is, you have to consider your average kid someone who does have a brain.

In my daughter's case, she enjoyed using the blanky we gave her as a pillow for her head.  It was not big and it would not have smothered her - I would watch her sleeping and believe me - my kid was the first to cry if anything bothered her.  4-5 months is not a completely helpless newborn FYI.  [/quote]

Total nutjob![/quote]

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