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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Advice Needed

As I've posted a bunch of times already, I have 3 year old son (OS) and a 6 month old son (YS). While I love that my kids are 3 years apart, there are definitely some disadvantages. One of them is the toy situation. Since OS is 3, he is starting to accumulate toys with lots of small parts (ie Match Box cars, the game Hi Ho Cherri-o, etc.) He really enjoys these toys and I want him to be able to continue playing with them. Since YS isn't mobile yet, so far we thankfully have not had any issues with YS putting OS's toys in his mouth.

I should also mention that the boys share a room. In addition to that, we have a small living room and our basement floods so there's no "playroom" for the boys so to speak. I'm trying to come up with different ways to "infant proof my toddler". One of the things I was thinking of doing was putting up one of those pedal baby gates in the doorway of our guest room and putting all of OS's big boy toys in there. That way OS could step on the pedal to open the gate and be able to play with his toys without YS taking them. Of course this is dependant on OS remembering to close the gate (I would say also OS's ability to open the gate, but he leaps over the other baby gates we have already.)

It seems though when I've talked to friends that have 3 or more kids that they really don't do any baby proofing. The younger kids seem to just learn not to put Match Box cars etc. in their mouths. Maybe it's also easier because in addition to the parents telling them not to do it, they also have their older siblings. I'm curious to know what you do with your kids. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

posted by Alex Elliot @ 10:00 AM 2 comments

2 Comments:

At 1/18/2007 6:45 PM, Anonymous said…

Brings back all kinds of intimidating school memories!
-J
At 1/19/2007 12:47 PM, super des said…

From what I know of OS, if you tell him that YS putting toys in his mouth is a bad thing, he will stick to that. Let them play near each other. Keep an eye on YS at first, but also see if OS is monitoring as well.

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