Lily is now attempting to eject herself from her highchair..

This little girl is going to kill me. As if pulling to standing and then insisting on letting go with one hand and trying to pick up whatever toy may be on the floor with one hand while still standing is not enough to give me a heart attack. My almost 8 month old daughter has now decided (for the past two weeks) that it is fun to literally jump out of her high chair. Of course I have her strapped in but she is a little tall thing at only 15.5 lbs. and mega tall and so she brings her little feet up and sets them on the seat of the chair and then pushes up pretty much ejecting herself from the seat and the straps are not tight enough to force her down....don't get me wrong, the straps contain her, but they do not keep her from practicing this little trick.

She is also obsessed with crawling over and pulling up on the tv stand. I have tried to create a bit of a blocker for her in front of the stand but she just works her little but off pushing the boxes away from the front and gets there anyway.

If I say her name in the sort of tone that implies to stop she will immediatly stop what she is doing and turn around and look at me. I always want to be gentle so I end up sounding like a moron saying "We don't do that Lily, I love you Lily, we don't pull up on the tv Lily, I love you Lily and so on.....

Is it too early to say no? She seems to get that she is to stop but cannot compute it longterm and immediatly does it again.

This high chair thing is killing me. I thought it was a phase but she is still ejecting away!

Amy

 

Obviously 95% of what you do will be redirecting her attention, but I think they understand a lot more than we realize. I'd start now with the verbal instruction along the redirection. She is a firecracker!

Reyna

 

ERRRRRR!!!! Jack is up to the same tricks and I can't count the number of times a day he cracks his head on something. I was just going to ask everyone about this whole NO thing. All day long I say in a very firm voice NO DON'T TOUCH! In response I get a big grin and "DDDDD TCHHH" he mocks me and thens turns around and continues what I just told him not to do. Meanwhile James is quietly sitting playing with whatever toy Jack hasn't taken from him. I'm hoping that they will get the idea shortly because my nephew who is 2 months older won't go near anything you tell him not to. Sorry no help here just thought I'd let you know I'm right there with you except the way their high chairs are designed they can't even move their chubby little legs.

 

I agree with the redirection along with verbal instruction. I think the word No tends to lose it's value if it's said too frequently. I know with my dd, the word no to her has always meant "you shouldn't be doing what you're doing, but doing it is so much fun and boy does it make mommy crazy!" Good luck!

 

We usually don't say no, but we do say "ah ah ah, we don't <insert activity you want them to stop>" when they are doing something they shouldn't be. My daycare provider doesn't use the word no because she doesn't want that to be their 1st word because they hear it so often. So she uses "ah ah ah." It works very well for her and it works very well for us when we aren't home. Don't ask me why they listen to us when we are out and about, but apparently they tune us out at home. We try to consitently say it and then try and redicrect them. They are getting a lot better about it, but we still have struggles with certain things.

 

My girls have just started to understand "no" really this week! when Alyssa is trying to play with the DVD player we will say "ALYSSA No No" and she instantly busts out balling!!! LOL It is actually kinda cute, but make sure you SPECIFY a nambe because if we yell just "NO NO" they both start crying it is too funny... they really do know their names and that cracks me up.

 

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My girls have just started to understand "no" really this week! when Alyssa is trying to play with the DVD player we will say "ALYSSA No No" and she instantly busts out balling!!! LOL It is actually kinda cute, but make sure you SPECIFY a nambe because if we yell just "NO NO" they both start crying it is too funny... they really do know their names and that cracks me up.


We do this too. We always say their name first and then NO! to dangerous things... which absolutely includes trying to climb out of the highchair or trying to climb the entertainment center (my girls LOVE this- and then hit the tv with a toy). I give them three chances to stop what they are doing. On the third time, as I'm saying "Name, NO!" I pick them up and put them on the opposite side of the room (when trying to climb the entertainment center). Now I still have to say no a couple of times, but usually when I get to the second no, they look at me with a little smile and stop what they are doing. We have good days and bad, and I'm probably making the entertainment center the end-all-be-all of fun things, but its dangerous and they need to learn.. oh and I need to learn too because once they are full-on walking we all have to know the rules!

As for holding on with one hand and bending down to pick up a toy, I just hold my breath and try not to freak out because they have to learn... we've had some good spills and some bruises but now they are cruising, bending, pulling up with a toy in one hand, they are so coordinated and steady on their feet! GL!