My son is literally climbing the walls (and baby gates and chairs and table tops and bookshelves and the tops of boxes and sometimes the cat--the friendly one). He is going through climbing madness!
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| Photo by Lisa Nolan |
OK, not really, but it feels like madness to me! Why? I'm always saying: "Please get down from there!" "Chairs are for sitting on!" "Tables are for eating on!" "How did you get up there?!" "Don't climb on the stereo!" "Hey!" "No!" (Notice how I begin to sound less like Montessori teacher and more like a frustrated mom!)
My son cannot stop climbing. He climbs on EVERYTHING. I actually took half the furniture out of our living room slash dining room because he would not stop crawling on and jumping off stuff! (I swear he was a mountain goat in another life!)
We do allow him to climb on the couch and his eating chair, out of guilt for living in a small home with no yard. And we take him to the park or out for a walk. (Good news, we are buying a house this summer! And it will have no furniture! OK, some.)
Maybe he will be a world renowned rock climber some day!
{From the archives}
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Update! We did buy a house (when our son turned four), with a big yard! And one of the first things we invested in was a play structure for our must-climb-on-everything son. We adopted a dog. And, yes, our son attempts to climb on, over, and under the dog. She's a chocolate Lab who is beyond tolerant! Oh, and the gates are down! (Keep your fingers crossed!)
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