[blparent] the meaning of no

[Mark Feliz]

Hi Jodie,
I think it is great your little one is such an explorer, that will be
to her advantage later in life. I haven't met a 7 month old who can
understand the meaning of no. As mentioned on another post they are
designed to explorer their environment. It sounds like most of your
living quarters can be child proof. There is true meaning in that
term. It must be taken quite seriously. Make sure you have cabbinet
locks on any cabbinet door she has access to. Duct tape the wires
behind the desk. Press in electrical outlet guards into every unused
outlet. You can also purchase outlet covers which actually fit over
already plugged in cords and are secured with a screw. This will all
be easier when you move into your larger place. Then you can put up
baby gates to prevent her from entering undesired rooms. Oh, just
remember, as she gets older she will climb those baby gates. Then you
may have to close and lock undesired rooms. It sounds like she may be
your first so lie down on your belly and crawl around. Feel around
everything at her height and evaluate for danger. And please do
whatever it takes to immediately remove the unstable shelf with the
heavy television. I am afraid this is an accident waiting to happen.
Good luck and enjoy that kid, enjoy her discoveries along with her.
Mark Feliz


On 9/1/12, Jodie and Kahlan <xandir at samobile.net> wrote:
> 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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