Two year olds can drive you nuts
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Caporegime
Cupboard locks. Make sure everything is behind a door or up out of reach.
After that it's down to your own stern voice to stop them messing about!
After that it's down to your own stern voice to stop them messing about!
Soldato
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Firstly, wouldn't let a 2 year old near my stuff.
Secondly, get the kid out of the house, play some football or something. I don't want a 2 year old with their filthy hands touching everything, yuck. Give the kid something to do other than go around messing with my stuff.
Third, i'll end up having kids one day probably buy no way in hell am i looking after anyone elses, ever, i hate small children with a passion.
Secondly, get the kid out of the house, play some football or something. I don't want a 2 year old with their filthy hands touching everything, yuck. Give the kid something to do other than go around messing with my stuff.
Third, i'll end up having kids one day probably buy no way in hell am i looking after anyone elses, ever, i hate small children with a passion.
Would anyone agree with me that 2 year olds can be destructive as hell?
It's a nightmare, we've had to move and pack away everything from our lounge because Dan has his hands and fingers in everything.. Even my PC has a modded fireguard around it because he broke the DVD drive.
Speaking of which he tried inserting bread into the old VHS player.. Needless to say the picture is a bit grainy
Don't get me wrong, i love him to bits but it's hard work.
Has anyone else found this.. What measure have you taken?
God your getting it easy. You want to try it with Twins
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Hell thats nothing, when i was 5 i urinated in a bucket and poured it down the back of the tv.
Soldato
we have the cupboard locks, my son figured them out aaages ago, he got a bottle of flash liquid and poured it into the washing machine, needless to say, all the clothes came out very lemony
He's into buttons, he loves them, he presses all the buttons on the washing machine, making his own programs up and cancelling the ones already running, he can put the freeview box on 71 on his own (cbeebies). He has an obsession with pressing play on the dvd player, he also does the plug socket switch thing too, basically he's into everything lol. You just have to keep him interested, he loves learning his alphabet and numbers and shapes and colours and that keeps him out of trouble.
Caporegime
Bingo.
we have the cupboard locks, my son figured them out aaages ago, he got a bottle of flash liquid and poured it into the washing machine, needless to say, all the clothes came out very lemony
Our friends son figured out their cupboard locks, he used the tools from his toy toolbox to lever the locks off the cupboards. You can't argue with the resourcefulness, when they moved the items in the cupboard to a higher cupboard he just stood on the toolbox and used the same tools!
We've got this to come in a year or so, our little one is 10months old and I'm already fearful for the DVD's etc.
He's currently into poking things with his fingers, he's a poster child for plug safety covers, he'll crawl towards an electric socket with his index finger extended ready to poke with.
Soldato
We bought one of these from that Swedish place:
DVD Player, Wii, Cable modem, Wireless router, DVD's, CD's are locked away nicely.
Not too great when the little one magically makes the key appear on the inside when the door is allready locked
The good news is my eldest is now 3 so have been through the "Im going to open every cupboard and empty the contents of ANY shelf onto the floor for no reason" phase.
Personally, I refused to hide things in my own home so rode it out and now the eldest seems to on the whole, leave most things alone which are not hers some of the time.
The bad news is my youngest is now 1 and has recently begun the "Im going to open every cupboard and empty the contents of ANY shelf onto the floor for no reason" phase - LOL
He also has a fondness of pulling over the rear speakers of the 5.1 set on my PC.. need to buy some more solid speaker stands or nail them to the floor.
I would say at this point, that boys seem to be more mischevious than the girls.
Yep, toddlers are great fun.
DVD Player, Wii, Cable modem, Wireless router, DVD's, CD's are locked away nicely.
Not too great when the little one magically makes the key appear on the inside when the door is allready locked
The good news is my eldest is now 3 so have been through the "Im going to open every cupboard and empty the contents of ANY shelf onto the floor for no reason" phase.
Personally, I refused to hide things in my own home so rode it out and now the eldest seems to on the whole, leave most things alone which are not hers some of the time.
The bad news is my youngest is now 1 and has recently begun the "Im going to open every cupboard and empty the contents of ANY shelf onto the floor for no reason" phase - LOL
He also has a fondness of pulling over the rear speakers of the 5.1 set on my PC.. need to buy some more solid speaker stands or nail them to the floor.
I would say at this point, that boys seem to be more mischevious than the girls.
Yep, toddlers are great fun.
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Caporegime
they can be a nightmare, but they can be the best things in the world :]
jake put coins in the wii, it now makes funny noises sometimes!
has scratched many cd's and a few games!
jake put coins in the wii, it now makes funny noises sometimes!
has scratched many cd's and a few games!
Soldato
My little girl of 4 months is great. Put her down in the bouncy chair and she stays there being nosey sucking her thumb. Put her to bed and she sleeps all night. She does have her moments of attention seeking though when she just wants to be adored. I wish it could last forever, but i also can't wait for her to get to the age of about 3 or 4
Don
Never had any problems with mine. Didn't hide anything. Just kept her amoused and if she broke anything, made sure she understood that it was wrong and that she shouldn't touch Daddy's stuff.
She'll make a good nurse when she grows up.
My grandson turned 2 in February and he's just brilliant! Yeah, we spoil him but that's what grandparents are for
same here,my 2 year old is really good.
she knows not to touch my pc.
never goes near the tv or dvd player.
she is awsome to look after.
. Already had the speaker cables jammed into the firewire port. Wow the mobo didn't like that at all, and screen did a multicolor freak out. Thankfuly was ok after a hard-reset.
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She'll make a good nurse when she grows up.
My grandson turned 2 in February and he's just brilliant! Yeah, we spoil him but that's what grandparents are for
Or a doctor, girls can become doctors too you know
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Or a doctor, girls can become doctors too you know
You don't know how relevant that reply is to my job.
I spend a lot of time breaking down the stereotypes of NHS Professionals to school children.
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The stories in this thread are awesome! My son, Jonah, is 6 months old so I have all of this to come (or not, hopefully)!