[blparent] the meaning of no

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Barriers will be your best friend.  Can you block the kitchen with a baby 
gate?  Or get a toddler fence and set it up in the middle of the living 
room, with plenty of toys inside?  I didn't know what a toddler fence was 
till after my baby got too old for one, but it's a contraption made out of 
lightweight metal bars with mesh or vinyl stretched between them, so it 
folds flat easily, and you can set it up on the floor when you need to work 
in the kitchen or something.  Sort of like a play yard without the bottom. 
The fences often have pictures on them and little jingles and rattles and 
stuff, so it's hardly a bad thing.  If you don't want to buy a toddler 
fence, since it's only useful for a short time, do you have a Pack and Play? 
It sounds like, till you get to your new place, keeping your baby confined 
to a safe area will be a must.  It would be tragic if she pulled a 300-pound 
TV down on her head!

Also, I read an article once about associating the word "no" with something 
that makes a loud noise.  When the baby goes toward something she shouldn't, 
you say "no" and make the loud noise, maybe by very quickly turning up a 
radio full blast.  The baby doesn't like the loud noise, in theory, so she 
stops going near the dangerous place.  Eventually, she associates "no" with 
not going near the danger.  I'm not necessarily advocating this, and I never 
tried it with my own child.  But I read about it, and it's the only thing I 
can recall about teaching a baby "no" at such a young age.  I just kept the 
environment as free of dangers as I could, and then used barriers or the 
Pack and Play when I had to.

Good luck with your move.

Jo Elizabeth

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's 
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and 
died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jodie and Kahlan
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 2:55 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] the meaning of no

Hi. Kahlan will be seven months old tomorrow and she's crawling all
over the place now. This is great, but she's also going places she's
not supposed to go. We keep telling her no and pulling her away,
turning her in the opposite direction of the potential danger, but she
goes right back to it and we have to keep pulling her away. We tell her
if we have to tell her no one more time we'll put her in either her
crib or her bouncer, then when she does it again we do what we said
we'd do, but she still does it the next time. I know she's too young to
understand, "if you do this, that will happen," but we just figure it's
not too early to start teaching her about consequences. she may not get
it now, but she will eventually. But I was just wondering if any of you
had any other suggestions. We don't want her going near the TV because
it's not on a stirdy shelf. We'll be getting rid of the shelf, but we
need someone to help us move the 300 pound TV off of it first. One
person has to move the stand and two people have to hold the TV. Plus,
there's the plug to the TV back there and we don't want her getting
that. We don't want her to go into the kitchen because if we're using
the oven we don't want her to get burned, and the kitchen is so small
that Chris and I can't even work together in there because there's just
not enough room. We can't wait to be in our new place in a few weeks!
We keep her away from Chris's desk the best we can because of the wires
back there. We keep them threaded through the hole in the desk that's
made for that purpose, but she still manages to get under there by
climbing over his chair. Does anyone have an effective way to teach no
to a seven month old?

-- 
Hugs from Jodie and kahlan
"Only a fool walks into the future backward."
Terry Goodkind

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