Aha. Tricked you into clicking on a potentially dull thread about babygates.
DD is almost a year old, crawls at lightning-fast speed and is attracted to anything unsafe like a moth to a flame. DS is 6 and was always a sensible chap, so we are finding the experience of guerilla-baby quite a shock. DS has hypermobility and struggles with some stuff that requires finger/hand strength, like loo-flush buttons.
We need three babygates at the exits to our sitting room to keep DD from (i) hurling herself down two stone stairs into our dining room; (ii) climbing the stairs or drowning herself in the downstairs loo; or (iii) letting strangers in at the front door. However, now the baby gates are in place, DS can't open them by himself, and is understandably fretting that he might not be able to get to the loo in time.
The babygates we have all close differently, but he can't open any of them by himself. One has buttons on both sides that you press in while lifting a handle, one has a switch that you depress while lifting the gate and the other has a bit that you slide backwards away from the lock and then lift.
Is there anything else we can try? I only want to imprison one of my children...
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HerculesMulligan · 01/08/2020 21:37
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