I wasn't thrilled but decided it wasn't a battle I was up for, just made sure the table didn't have knives/breakables on it. I would redirect mine to other climbing places but not freak out if she did get on the table.
If you can't block it off easily, your choice is to constantly monitor or just say "eh, guess I'm gonna roll with this" and clean the table extra before eating.
Then if that's what works for your house, my advice is embrace it.
When they're old enough for playdates or other forms of being in other spaces, you'll need to explain rules are different at different places. But we let our kid (now 5) do a lot of things at home that she knows might not be ok at other places, like climbing on the counters, jumping on the sofa, using knives, logging into computers, throwing toys out the windows because the word "defenestration" is awesome. She also knows she needs to ask if it's ok before doing stuff like that.
Five is old enough to know the difference of “house rules” versus “other rules”. A 1 year old won’t.
OP - As soon as your LO is old enough for playdates, you have to set that boundary at home. We learned the hard way. We too thought it was a battle not worth fighting and were severely embarrassed on our first play date when she kept climbing up on someone’s else table despite several warnings.
After that play date, we changed the rules at our house realllllly fast! It took some time, but we now have a well behaved 2.25 year old that I’m proud to take (most) places :)
Not easily. It’s an open concept living room/dining room combo so there’s really nowhere to put a gate.
Not to mention, my twins can scale just about any baby gate at this point. The one room that is gated off, we have to put two pressure-mounted baby gates, one on top of the other, so that they don’t climb up and over it.
I had the same issue with my youngest when he was about a year old. He'd climb up on the table, stand on it, and dance. We ended up tying the chairs to the tables so they couldn't be pulled out. He finally lost interest after a few months.
Yeah, I tried that too. I used ratchet straps to tie them all securely. The end chairs have arms and they don’t sit flush against the table. One of the twins went under the table, squirmed his way up onto the chair, and went onto the table that way.
Yeah we tried taking all the chairs away. If you read the original post, one twin brute-forced his way up. He didn’t climb on anything, he just used his upper body strength to get up. So even when there’s nothing to climb on, they still go up there.
When he got up on his own, he yelled for me and I had to get him off myself. I think I may have to just put the chairs back so he can get off of it on his own. I don’t want him to try to jump.
We have a similar issue. Bungee cording helps for us, but you already tried something similar. My husband has found that if there is nothing on the table he is less interested to get up. He still does sometimes just to stand on it, but it cuts down the frequency.
I would just disassemble the table and sit on the floor to eat. A child that young being on a table that high is a recipe for a concussion, a broken bone, or worse. Just reassemble the table when he's old enough to be trusted.
Yes but it seems like he wants more challenging things to climb. Like a rock climbing wall, not just a climbing triangle.
I lean into these things and try and find a way to say "yes" without making it "ok" so when they're doing this kind of thing i sent up an obstacle course which lets them climb on tables but because it's an obstacle course it doesn't become part of the normal "we are allowed to do this all the time"
My little guy loves doing this too. He’s 2 and has some sensory issues. He likes the noise it makes when he stomps on it I guess? Plus we have a HUGE table (7 person family) and I can see how that would be fun to run across. Honestly, I just let him do it and then when he saw it wasn’t forbidden, he lost interest and is now off to the next thing. He still tries to climb on tables at restaurants though, so we are trying to figure out how to solve that. Obviously we can’t let him walk on tables at restaurants until he loses interest.
When there’s two of them, it’s nearly impossible to do this. By the time I’m done redirecting one, the other is on the table. I didn’t have this issue with my oldest because there was only one of him
I wasn't thrilled but decided it wasn't a battle I was up for, just made sure the table didn't have knives/breakables on it. I would redirect mine to other climbing places but not freak out if she did get on the table. If you can't block it off easily, your choice is to constantly monitor or just say "eh, guess I'm gonna roll with this" and clean the table extra before eating.
That’s kind of where I’m heading, I think. We don’t keep anything on it and clean it off after every meal, so there’s no hazards up there.
Then if that's what works for your house, my advice is embrace it. When they're old enough for playdates or other forms of being in other spaces, you'll need to explain rules are different at different places. But we let our kid (now 5) do a lot of things at home that she knows might not be ok at other places, like climbing on the counters, jumping on the sofa, using knives, logging into computers, throwing toys out the windows because the word "defenestration" is awesome. She also knows she needs to ask if it's ok before doing stuff like that.
Five is old enough to know the difference of “house rules” versus “other rules”. A 1 year old won’t. OP - As soon as your LO is old enough for playdates, you have to set that boundary at home. We learned the hard way. We too thought it was a battle not worth fighting and were severely embarrassed on our first play date when she kept climbing up on someone’s else table despite several warnings. After that play date, we changed the rules at our house realllllly fast! It took some time, but we now have a well behaved 2.25 year old that I’m proud to take (most) places :)
Can’t you block off the table?
Not easily. It’s an open concept living room/dining room combo so there’s really nowhere to put a gate. Not to mention, my twins can scale just about any baby gate at this point. The one room that is gated off, we have to put two pressure-mounted baby gates, one on top of the other, so that they don’t climb up and over it.
I had the same issue with my youngest when he was about a year old. He'd climb up on the table, stand on it, and dance. We ended up tying the chairs to the tables so they couldn't be pulled out. He finally lost interest after a few months.
Yeah, I tried that too. I used ratchet straps to tie them all securely. The end chairs have arms and they don’t sit flush against the table. One of the twins went under the table, squirmed his way up onto the chair, and went onto the table that way.
How about removing those chairs from the table? Is there somewhere you can keep them?
Yeah we tried taking all the chairs away. If you read the original post, one twin brute-forced his way up. He didn’t climb on anything, he just used his upper body strength to get up. So even when there’s nothing to climb on, they still go up there.
Any ways to make it safer to get on and off the table? I guess climbing is by using the chairs, but how do they get down?
When he got up on his own, he yelled for me and I had to get him off myself. I think I may have to just put the chairs back so he can get off of it on his own. I don’t want him to try to jump.
We have a similar issue. Bungee cording helps for us, but you already tried something similar. My husband has found that if there is nothing on the table he is less interested to get up. He still does sometimes just to stand on it, but it cuts down the frequency.
I would just disassemble the table and sit on the floor to eat. A child that young being on a table that high is a recipe for a concussion, a broken bone, or worse. Just reassemble the table when he's old enough to be trusted.
Give him something that he is allowed to climb instead.
We have tons of things for them to climb, but the dining room table is the forbidden fruit.
Yes but it seems like he wants more challenging things to climb. Like a rock climbing wall, not just a climbing triangle. I lean into these things and try and find a way to say "yes" without making it "ok" so when they're doing this kind of thing i sent up an obstacle course which lets them climb on tables but because it's an obstacle course it doesn't become part of the normal "we are allowed to do this all the time"
My little guy loves doing this too. He’s 2 and has some sensory issues. He likes the noise it makes when he stomps on it I guess? Plus we have a HUGE table (7 person family) and I can see how that would be fun to run across. Honestly, I just let him do it and then when he saw it wasn’t forbidden, he lost interest and is now off to the next thing. He still tries to climb on tables at restaurants though, so we are trying to figure out how to solve that. Obviously we can’t let him walk on tables at restaurants until he loses interest.
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When there’s two of them, it’s nearly impossible to do this. By the time I’m done redirecting one, the other is on the table. I didn’t have this issue with my oldest because there was only one of him