[blparent] baby gates question

Fri Jan 28 04:39:48 UTC 2011

I got an extra wide baby gate for the doorway between my kitchen and dining 
room.  It's pressure-mounted on both ends, but since it's so wide, it's made 
of two metal bars, top and bottom, with cloth mesh between them.  It's 
difficult to put up and take down, so we just leave it in place and step 
over it.  I've thought about taking it down, but it's still useful because 
my house is laid out in a circle.  Occasionally, Sarah still likes to run 
from me.  When the circle is open and she can just keep going around and 
around, I have some trouble keeping up with her.  But with the circle closed 
by the gate, I can always catch up because she doesn't usually change 
directions.  Anyway, if that kind of a gate would be useful, I can go on 
Amazon and look up the brand name and dimensions.

Jo Elizabeth

"Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that never 
were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] baby gates question

> When Gab was a toddler I used to place her playpen in front of our kitchen
> doorway.  There is no door  and opening is very wide so it seemed logical 
> to
> me that the playpen was big enough to close it off and if we had to move 
> it
> to get in, so be it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of jill
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> Maybe place a chair in front of the door?
> Jill
>
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> Behalf Of Ken Quinn
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>
> that would work well but there is only one door knob and nothing else to
> attach the rubber band to.
> ken
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>>A really good deterance with 2 doors that are like that is a good sturdy
>> rubber band.  You just stretch the band across both knobs and I 
>> guarantee,
>> little ones cannot push it open.  Gab tried opening our closet doors that
>> were strapped together with that rubber band and could not get it open. v
>>
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>> Behalf Of Brandy W
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>> There are locks that for French doors or doors with 2 handles, but they
>> are
>> a bit more tricky to find and to open.
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>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ken Quinn
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>> unfortunately the office has french doors so know way of installing one.
>> ken
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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>>>I agree, this would be a good place for a gate or at least a good place 
>>>to
>>> place a play pen as I did infront of my kitchen doorway. V
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Melissa Ann Riccobono
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:44 AM
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>>> Just a thought, but you may also want to get a gate to cover the doorway
>>> to
>>> the office area.  That way even if she does get down the stairs somehow
>>> she'll stay out of there.
>>> Melissa
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Ken Quinn
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] baby gates question
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>>>
>>> the going down isn't the problem she does that very well. it is just the
>>> case of her possibly getting into things in our office area which has
>>> doors
>>> that don't lock and there is know way to make them lock.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] baby gates question
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>>>
>>>> Let me tell you what my brother and his wife did.  They never did get a
>>>> gate, but taught their daughters to go down the stairs backwards.  The
>>>> kids
>>>> would go to the top of the stairs, sit down and then crawl backwards to
>>>> the
>>>> first step.
>>>> Others I know, have gates but they never open them, the adults just 
>>>> step
>>>> over. V
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Ken Quinn
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:25 PM
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>>>> Subject: [blparent] baby gates question
>>>>
>>>> hello all,
>>>> i am looking to get a baby gate cause my daughter has now master the 
>>>> art
>>>> of
>>>> opening her door and coming down our steps to the first floor. i am
>>>> looking
>>>> for something that is both easy  to install as well as easy for myself
>>>> and
>>>> wife to open up but difficult for my daughter to open. any suggestions
>>>> would
>>>>
>>>> be deeply appreciated.
>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>> ken
>>>>
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