How do you.......?

[packmomma]

Hey btdt mom's I want to start a thread for the FTM to ask how do you teach your kids certain things. Maybe I'm the only one who needs this but there has to be simpler way to do some of these things.

[packmomma]

I'll start. How do you teach your kid to crawl DOWN the stairs. W holds my hand to walk down them but he's getting pretty brave and I just picture hom throwing himself down our stairs. Is there anyway to help him realize crawling backwards is the best way to go?

[joi922]

packmomma, practice. C is great at crawling up the stairs, but kept trying to crawl down face first. So we would turn her around and physically move her legs down the stairs so she would get used to it. Or, if she was paused crawling up and looked like she was trying to go back down, we would help her find her footing because it looked like she was just nervous having her leg dangle in the air and not being able to see the floor/next stair down. Did the same for sliding off the couch or bed or a chair. She picked it up pretty quickly.

[packmomma]

Thanks! He goes backward off the bed so hopefully he'll pick this up quickly. I don't think I can handle much more of his running towards the stairs. He just stands at the top of them and looks down pondering whether he's going to give me a heart attack or not

[tmclawchick]

+1 to practice and modeling how to do it. Stairs always get me so nervous!

[RandomName]

Another +1
We turned DS around and showed him a few times. I did it for a few days and then he just started on his own.

[aydee]

I don't ever let her walk down forwards. Either I carry her down or I make her turn around backwards and assist her in trying to figure out how to go down that way. Every time she tries to turn around forward I keep repositioning her backward.

Basically I never let her go down forward because I don't for a minute want her to think that's how to do it until she's much older and ready to attempt it without face planting!

[Deleted]

I hate stairs.

I taught Addie to sit down and lower herself to the next one. She likes to race so we made a game out of it.

She walks down now and my heart still stops and I constantly say, watch where you're going and hold onto the rail.

[zonagirl]

We have gates on her stairs. I always carry her up and down them. It honestly never occurred to me to teach her how to go down them. I need to get out of the mentality that I still have a baby! gah!!

[packmomma]

zonagirl the stairs that actually worry me are 10 feet across so we can't gate them. He always stops at the top and waits to hold my hand but I'm now turning hom around and "forcing" him to crawl down so that he doesn't get brave and try to walk down himself.

[gingerygirl]

I'm glad I don't have stairs.

[packmomma]

Sept 30, 2016 15:16:50 GMT -5 gingerygirl said:

I'm glad I don't have stairs.

We have stairs jn literally ever part of our house. There's even one stair up into our kitchen. It was a pita when I was in physical therapy for my knee.

[packmomma]

I've been turning w around on the stairs and he is crying because I won't just hold his hand. but he is starting to get the hang of it and did it when coming out of the kitchen.

[redandblue]

packmomma we have a number of stairs on our main floor too. The main stair case is open and can't be gated either. Plus two stairs going to front foyer and dining room (where we have the main play area). Honestly M has mastered the stairs. I let him go up and down the two stairs freely by himself, and he does the main stairs independently, but I always stick by him on the main stairs. I agree with modeling turning around. Even though he doesn't walk yet, he will walk up and down the stairs holding the wall or spindles.