Jennifer Latch, our San Francisco-based mommy buddy who blogs at Our metropolitan Playground, shared photos on the internet of exactly how she surrendered to her child Phoebe’s obsession with playing in cupboards. I did the exact same when my kid was a toddler. Today, Jen shares her methods for embracing Phoebe’s habits instead of battling it.
Toddlers like to pull things off shelves as well as out of drawers. I discover this exceptionally annoying, as well as if you have any type of heavy books on the shelves it can really be dangerous.
My concept to transform the bottom shelves in our apartment or condo started with the living room. My youngest was just starting to discover exactly how to crawl as well as pull up. I understood that soon she would be grabbing the books I had there as well as potentially pulling them down on top of her.
I made a decision to rework the shelving system as well as turn the bottom two shelves into baby-friendly toy storage: heavier products on the bottom shelf as well as light luxurious toys on the shelf above it. This has worked truly well for us as well as has made clean up after toy play quite painless.
As my infant ended up being a lot more mobile as well as quite much thinking about complying with me around as well as copying what I was doing, I set up a similar area in our kitchen area flavor pantry. She was getting into the spices as well as spilling them as well as throwing them everywhere! I set up the bottom two shelves with pretend spices as well as foods for her to play with instead. (I got the play foods at Target.)
You might do similar things with bottom drawers your young child likes to get into or other sections of the home if you have the space. This would be a method to entertain your kid while you get things done as well as toddlerproof an area without having tons of youngster products everywhere. The infant still experiences the enjoyment of getting into stuff, however it does not cause danger, messes or eyesores.
I believe my next step is going to be transforming a specific cupboard she likes to open as well as throw the Tupperware all over. I believe I will just put some things in there for her instead up until she grows out of that phase.
Of program cupboards that have cleaning supplies or hazardous things must be completely babyproofed as well as locked, however at this stage (18 months) she likes to pretend play as well as copy as well as get into locations she believes are not enabled so providing her risk-free choices to do this save me great deals of time when I am trying to cook dinner, fold laundry or take a few minutes to response an email… as well as perhaps a few minutes to scan my Instagram feed if we are going to be totally sincere with each other!
Thanks, Jen, for being sincere with us! checked out Jen’s extremely basic idea for picky eaters that we shared last year. as well as her sensibly low-key very first birthday celebration story.