How do you stop a 1 year old from climbing everything?

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Need some help from other mums with little climbers. My little man 12 months is a climber. He can already climb up on our lounge chairs and then he climbs up on my side table. Both the chairs and the table a high enough to cause injury to him. I constantly am taking him off the chairs (which takes up a considerable amount of my time and so housework doesn’t get done.) and telling him no in a firm voice and distracting him with toys but within seconds his back on there. He gets really excited when i come to take him off thinking it’s a game. He doesn’t like being confined to the playpen because it means he can’t play with his sister and the playpen is not big enough to put the chairs into it. Any ideas as to how to discourage him. How do you stop a 1 year old from climbing everything?

Posted by Laura 11.03.2013

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- - Ellen said
  - 13 Feb 2023
    8:44 am
You could put some foam climbing blocks in your living area and direct and redirect him to that
- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Nov 2018
    8:15 pm
It’s just one more step on the ladder to growing up. He’ll eventually tire of it and move onto your next heart attack adventure
- - Klsmith91 said
  - 01 Nov 2015
    1:17 pm
I would love to know also, i think they stop in their own time
- - dannsbuild said
  - 29 Sep 2015
    5:04 pm
Really very interesting comments on this!
- - mom94125 said
  - 10 Oct 2014
    10:17 pm
it’s apart of learning. give him a childs playest to climb on and get him away from what he is trying to climb on with a firm no
- - mom74490 said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    11:51 am
they will grow out of it
- - mom74490 said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    11:50 am
hang in there and dont give up my son was a climber very young as he started walking at 9 months :-/
- - Mis Jo said
  - 28 Jul 2014
    9:51 am
You have to be very firm and do not give up!
- - christial said
  - 01 Jun 2014
    12:58 am
Unfortunately you really can’t stop climbing. It’s a lot of fun to them!
- - Happymum-2 said
  - 31 May 2014
    3:02 pm
I would like to bet you didn’t stop your little monkey
- - meltingmoment said
  - 02 Dec 2013
    10:13 am
Hope you managed to find the answer you were looking for.
- - mggarner said
  - 28 Nov 2013
    3:23 pm
most children go through that
- - mggarner said
  - 27 Nov 2013
    3:37 pm
Good luck I have twins that do that at the moment
- - kjgarner said
  - 28 Oct 2013
    10:59 am
I have a child that does that as well
- - meltingmoment said
  - 27 Oct 2013
    1:06 pm
Hope you found some help from some of these good suggestions.
- - snoopy said
  - 25 Oct 2013
    3:00 pm
Get a play gym appropriate for that age group. There are some terrific plastic ones, try ebay for a second hand one.
- - lynzstevo said
  - 28 Aug 2013
    8:38 pm
I’m looking at getting a climbing frame for the yard so my kids can do all their climbing outside, because I am yet to find a way to stop them from climbing the furniture!
- - maureen3 said
  - 28 Aug 2013
    12:26 pm
Lots of great tips Hope it is of some help
- - a-edwards said
  - 21 Aug 2013
    3:34 pm
Rach always has great infor
- - a-edwards said
  - 15 Aug 2013
    3:54 pm
It’s all part of learning