http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/06/12/child-gate-not-child-proof/ My Bag of Tricks about Family, Children, and Grief Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:30:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/06/12/child-gate-not-child-proof/comment-page-1/#comment-12775 My Alligator Purse » Blog Archive » Child Proof Gate STILL not Child Proof Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:44:46 +0000 http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/06/12/child-gate-not-child-proof/#comment-12775 [...] William showed signs of being ready to sleep in a big boy bed many months ago, April to be exact. But we were scheduled to go on vacation to Georgia and I didn’t want to transition him to a bed, back to a crib for the trip, and then back to a bed when we got home. Then in May we moved into my mother’s house for 2 weeks. I couldn’t have him wandering around the house at night, especially since he learned to unlock and open the door after just two days there, so into a playpen/crib he stayed. Then when we came back home in June I really wanted to move him, especially since we would be having a baby in just a few months. But I wanted to put the doorway gate in front of his door so he wouldn’t be able to wander the house at night. It was currently being used in the kitchen to keep the kids out of the construction zone. Once the kitchen was tidied it still wasn’t childproofed, so we left the gate up. Mostly to keep him from endlessly emptying drawers, sliding the chair to the stove to help himself and opening the freezer to eat “iieh” (ice) and popsicles. [...] [...] William showed signs of being ready to sleep in a big boy bed many months ago, April to be exact. But we were scheduled to go on vacation to Georgia and I didn’t want to transition him to a bed, back to a crib for the trip, and then back to a bed when we got home. Then in May we moved into my mother’s house for 2 weeks. I couldn’t have him wandering around the house at night, especially since he learned to unlock and open the door after just two days there, so into a playpen/crib he stayed. Then when we came back home in June I really wanted to move him, especially since we would be having a baby in just a few months. But I wanted to put the doorway gate in front of his door so he wouldn’t be able to wander the house at night. It was currently being used in the kitchen to keep the kids out of the construction zone. Once the kitchen was tidied it still wasn’t childproofed, so we left the gate up. Mostly to keep him from endlessly emptying drawers, sliding the chair to the stove to help himself and opening the freezer to eat “iieh” (ice) and popsicles. [...]

]]> http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/06/12/child-gate-not-child-proof/comment-page-1/#comment-25 My Alligator Purse » Blog Archive » Child Gate not Child-Proof - UPDATE Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:57:29 +0000 http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/06/12/child-gate-not-child-proof/#comment-25 [...] We stored the gate away for about a month; after all we couldn’t return it and it wasn’t gating (see previous post about the child gate). Recently we switched my son to a twin bed and he has taken to getting up several times a night and wandering around the house, just because he can. It makes me very nervous and I haven’t been sleeping well. So we put the gate in his bedroom doorway. It would keep him in the safety of his room at night and the worst that would happen is he would end up sleeping on the floor. His older sister would be sleeping and wouldn’t be able to assist in the opening-process. [...] [...] We stored the gate away for about a month; after all we couldn’t return it and it wasn’t gating (see previous post about the child gate). Recently we switched my son to a twin bed and he has taken to getting up several times a night and wandering around the house, just because he can. It makes me very nervous and I haven’t been sleeping well. So we put the gate in his bedroom doorway. It would keep him in the safety of his room at night and the worst that would happen is he would end up sleeping on the floor. His older sister would be sleeping and wouldn’t be able to assist in the opening-process. [...]

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