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Do you agree
With EK on this?
"Those bins were a hot topic when I posted pictures of my apartment. I stand by my belief that the most effective form of childproofing is by teaching boundaries.No one is going to change my mind on this. This is how I was raised, myhusband was raised, nearly everyone everywhere has been raised, andmost of us have lived to tell the story."
I disagree. How can you say that your parents DIDN'T remove hazards from your home when you're 1) too young to remember, and 2) if they were removed, how would you have realized it?
Also. For her to assume that we were all raised like her makes my eyebrow jump off my forehead. Small-minded much?
Re: Do you agree
I bet she never noticed just how much childproofing her parents did. As an example, it wasn't until a friend brought her two little boys over to my parents' house that I realized how close to the floor the breakable stuff had gotten since my childhood. All that crap used to be where only my 6 ft tall mother could reach them.
Boundaries are important, but I cannot believe that boundaries alone are going to keep little kids from getting hurt.
I DO think there is such a thing as over-childproofing. Which is almost a half-nod to EK. (horror of horrors!)
But there's also such a thing as under-child-proofing.
ex: right now, in my house, the 'home defense' gun is not kid-proof. We don't have kids over and when we do, we remove clips and proplerly latch the trigger lock. (all of the rest of the guns are in the safe and unloaded.)
When we have kids? before they're old enough to be taught gun safety? that will have to change. Because shooting a gun accidentally is NOT a learning experience the kid walks away from.
Knocking over a crystal vase? bad. But it's something everyone walks away from. Pinching fingers in the cupboard? bad. But everyone walks away from that too.
So when you're talking minor injuries/damage, I can see the point of teaching boundries.
when you're talking possibility of death...dono't count on boundries for kids to young to understand consequences (her kids? to young. At age 8 I knew where dad's guns were and knew the consequences of touching them. But that won't hold true for all kids and...that's about the youngest I'd consider OK w/ such boundries)
I agree to a point. I think that you do have to teach boundaries.
Example: I wasn't allowed to go into my grandmothers room without permission. Mind you, she had the coolest room, and great old stuff, but I didn't step into that room if she didn't let me.
Why? GM didn't play. At All.
I think that you need to remove hazards, as best you can from your home, but your kids need to know your expectations also.
My parents childproofed and gave me a cupboard that I was allowed to go into. It had pots and pans and stuff for me to play with and eventually use as I learned how to cook.
I also learned boundaries. To rely only on boundary learning one has to be with the children at all times. EK claims she watches the boys all of the time. There is no way that she can if she is also "cooking" and "cleaning" and spending a gazillion hours monitoring and replying to her blog. They can learn boundaries but she needs to childproof some of that stuff. Mostly her food.
" EK claims she watches the boys all of the time."
And to a certain extent, that ain't healthy.
The whispered plots of 2 and 4 year olds are important to them!
Freedom to get in *small* bits of trouble is how you learn ***.
As with everything there is a middle of the road that EK misses. We have a bookcase that got moved because it was light enough for 6let to pull over. We have also moved some things up for now. There are a few things that he can't break but shouldn't be touching. Those things we just say no to.
Then again the child has managed to get hurt on his own "age appropriate" toys.