Toddlers and Christmas trees!

[golcarlilly]

Ok so I am really looking forward to Christmas this year but DREADING putting the tree up because I know it is going to be a complete nightmare with Myles being obsessed by pulling everything off it, I don't have anywhere I could put it or any way of fencing it off so he can't get to it and I am so worried that he is going to eat the baubles or hangers or electrocute himself on the lights, what are all you mums of toddlers planning?

 

[amylw1]

stick the tree in his travel cot!!!

luckily ours can go either behind tv on tv unit or on a table near my sofa where i can save it!

 

[golcarlilly]

We haven't got one!!

 

[amylw1]

ummm........ cant help then hun.

only other thing is ther a way you can ties it to something?

 

[Samemka]

I'm hoping that a good firm 'NO' will stop Emma touching ours - I dreaded her around our TV stand because it's all open and I had visions of her dragging stuff off, never leaving it alone etc - but she doesn't go near it cos she knows she's not allowed.

Saying that a christmas tree has to be a million times more exciting, LOL!

Guess we'll just see what happens when it's up.....(or down, lol)

 

[Kiddo]

I've been thinking exactly the same and rather get our new couch before Christmas like we'd planned, I think we're going to leave it until after since the way our living room is set out just now, one of the couches can block access to a part of the room.

The only other thing I thought was to put the tree in the hall instead of the living room but it's just not the same.

 

[Vickie]

last year we just kept telling her no and after a day or two she left alone

 

[golcarlilly]

last year we just kept telling her no and after a day or two she left alone

Absolutely NO chance of that working with M, this morning at my friend's house he was obsessed by a solitaire set she has and I said no and all he did was run over and pull it off the table and then giggle I swear he is naughty on purpose!!!

 

[Blah11]

Just saying no a lot LOL

Amelie was 11.5m last year and she used to pull a few bobbles off but nothing outrageous. This year she knows what I mean when I tell her not to do something so fx...

I refuse to babyproof and lock things away (apart from the soap cos she has a handwashing obsession). I figure they need to learn not to touch.

 

[embojet]

I'm gonna hang on the hope that after a couple of days of getting pulled away from it, she'll give up!

 

[honey08]

Just saying no a lot LOL

Amelie was 11.5m last year and she used to pull a few bobbles off but nothing outrageous. This year she knows what I mean when I tell her not to do something so fx...

I refuse to babyproof and lock things away (apart from the soap cos she has a handwashing obsession). I figure they need to learn not to touch.

im proper dreading it aswell .......... by the way wheres ur ttc journel ?


ps if u shout NO enough times they eventually do learn
might put mine on a table

 

[mum 2 three]

Shannon was 10 months last year and was a pain she didn't pull it down but she must of took every decoration of the tree about five times this year I'm hoping she will be better as she's older she understands no a lot more so hoping a firm no works x x

 

[amylw1]

does M respond better to being ignored if doing bad rather than telling him no??? if you ignore the tree hopefully he might as well.

 

[kiwimama]

We didn't have much trouble last year when she was almost one. If we have trouble this year, if she keeps touching it after I have told her not to several times, then she'll go in time out until she gets the message.

 

[Laura2919]

My niece was never interested in the christmas tree and last year neither were the girls. Now they are walking I am sure they will but I shall just keep telling them no.

 

[formunky]

last year Ash was a year and a half so he didnt touch the tree at all and it rocked lol....this year however at 2.5 years i really dont think we can hope for the same outcome so we are pulling out our little tree from when we were in the apartment and doing a table top decoration scene with the tree and stuff where he cant touch it.....we probably will be at one of out families for dinner so it wont matter that the table is the tree set up lol

 

[elmaxie]

We were just talking about this the other day!

Last year Nathan was too young to care about the Christmas tree but this year he would more than likely be obsessed! He is into climbing and loves lights so just a huge temptation.

We did think about getting a false one and putting the cheap or plastic baubles at the bottom so if he grabs them or pulls them off they won't shatter.

But we are worried about the lights really...he might bite the cable etc etc so we have decided to but a small real potted tree which will be up high in my tortoise enclosure (tortoise will be hibernating so it's will be empty) and we can plant out side and use over the next few years too until they are both old enough to take a telling and I can be reasonably sure they won't electrocute themselves biting the lights!

Emma.xx

 

[Dragonfly]

my son finds baubles lying around still and thinks they are for throwing so I can see my feet meeting them (thank god for non shatter now) and redecorating the tree on a daily basis. Last year he wasnt walking so it wasn't to bad.

 

[Nikkinoonoo]

We have a corner shelf up that come level with the top of the TV and we brought a smaller tree to stand on it last year when Jessica was at 'that' age xXx

 

[Mizzy]

i putting mine inside russells playpen lol