Re: Toddler and stairs


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"cara" <care@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, now dd2 refuses to go up or down the stairs herself and throws a
huge tantrum every single time we're coming down the stairs (I guess
its
mostly coming down that she doesn't like doing on her own now that I
think
about it) and I ask her to come on her own. I offer to hold hands, to
support her if needed, but she is getting heavy and needs to stop
depending on me for rides every time. What is a good strategy for
managing this?

We have the opposite problem. DD just turned 2 yo last month. I want to
carry her downstairs to hurry her up sometimes, but she won't let me.
She
throws a fit, but she needs me to hold her hand, so it takes forever to
get
down. Anyway, I have no advice, except it's not faster for them to walk
with help.



With my twins, I taught them to go down stairs on their belly, feet
first -- they could slide pretty fast that way.



We have tile stairs with hard wooden edges. So those of you out there in the
same situation, this may not work for you.

Particularly with my
bad knees, carrying the two of them up and down stairs was a real
challenge, so this is something I taught them to do as soon as they were
crawling. They learned to back up to the stairs to go down feet first,
and went up in the same orientation, just crawling up the stairs.

I've taught this technique to several other kids, as well -- at first, I
sit on the steps beside them and "bump" down while they go down, but it
doesn't take long before I can just wait for them at the bottom, and
they slide down pretty fast.

We had one or two minor chin bruises, but it worked well.

(I've taught the same technique for going down slides by themselves when
kids seem to want to slide, but don't really have upper body control to
go down the slide sitting up.)
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care



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