It is wrong to staple gun a baby to the floor - at least I am pretty sure it is frowned upon. Even if it isn’t really the baby you are stapling to the floor but the baby’s jumpsuit. I just think it is one of those thing that would cause the neighbours tongues to wag and the authorities to go ‘tsk tsk’ when they inevitably visited. But it is tempting though.
just stick them to the Go on admit it. Everyone out there with a crawling baby has these dark inner thoughts of ‘wouldn’t it be grand if you could floor in one spot for a while and know they would be there 30 seconds later’. It’s ok, I won’t tell anyone that you feel that that. Promise.
It used to be so easy didn’t it - plonk the baby down in the middle of the room and give it a balled up pair of socks to chew on and it would be happy while you folded the rest of the laundry or had a cuppa or played with the PS3. The worst thing that was going to happen was you would return to find the toddler with the baby in a deadly headlock of a hug because ‘I love them sooooooooooo much’.
But now the baby is mobile and slowly but steadily destroying everything in the house that isn’t over a 12 inches off the ground and nothing is safe. It even pulls things from a great height down around it with an almighty thud.
But not to fear - I am smarter than a baby, and cheap as well. So rather than but a baby gate to lock off various parts of the house to make it safe, guess what I did? I am really proud of this by the way! - I got some left over plastic coated chicken wire and some cable ties and secured off the most dangerous of areas.
It cost nothing, and it given the place that down home, country and western type bar feel to it as well. I am not sure that Wife is as impressed as I am though - but she never did like my taste in furniture.
Thanks for the great idea. Yeah it’s pretty difficult to keep your kids off everything. I’ll try it at my own house.
Jonathan
If Wife violently objects to your modifications to the furniture, you could always try the leash to a pole and just worry about whats within the radius..
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LOL Jlow - actually have one of those in the garage that was used for our cat for a while (stop it escaping the yard while still giving it some freedom). Might be worth a try, but I am sure it won’t go down all that well.
Also - apologies to anyone who saw this post early in the evening, there was a slight technical issue that now should be fixed.
Take some pics!
I am thinking of how to baby proof my classic danger ground too!
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Oh, I know…These are the times you really have to watch them like a hawk, but the problem is that we don’t have such keen eyes as the hawk. Most of the time they are just droopy and glazed, calling for the lids to shut the lights out. Lol.
Well, too bad, when it comes to real life, unlike some video games, you can’t skip a level. Happy playing with the kids.
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