experts
I have a bone to pick with the toddler “experts.” They like to say that the best defense for when your baby (6-18 months) gets into stuff that is unsafe is to “remove and substitute” or “distract.” That’s all well and good in theory but reality is that if you tell one of the boys that something is not a toy they first throw a fit with lots of tears and screaming and second go after that very thing as if it was the grand prize of all prizes. They are relentless. Like trying to teach Forest that tables are for putting things on, not climbing on. He’s obsessed with trying to attempt said table climbing now that I’ve spent 2 days “distracting.” And when you have TWO! Well, yet again, a whole other world as they both want to do the very thing that you try to distract them from doing. I’m convinced that none of the experts have ever had children of their own; most definitely not multiples.
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So very right! I’ve given up on the table climbing. Once they fall off a couple of times they stop climbing up there. Never had so much trouble out of my girls, but my boys drive me insane! The things they can get into. Braden broke his clavical, and the moment we get home from the ER he’s out trying to climb on his four wheeler and jump off! I guess the saying “Boys will be boys” is dead on.
i hear you. i gave up on the whole cell phone thing, they destroyed two of mine already with saliva, of all things. so i gacve them decoys…and they totally lost interest. humph.