[blparent] the meaning of no

Sat Sep 1 22:59:59 UTC 2012

Oooh, that's a cool thing.  Why didn't they have something like this when
Gab was little.  Oh well, we worked it out.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] the meaning of no

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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