woger151 wrote:
On Jun 1, 3:53 pm, "
wrote:

[snip]

I'm serious, and not trying to trash the OP.

Don't worry; I used to post to different, fairly nasty USENET groups
all the time. I'm grateful for all the replies here. If a few people
say, "Idiot! Don't worry about the toddlers getting the nuts off!!1!"
I can handle it. :-)

Toddlers (more than
one?!) can do tremendous damage in about 10 seconds...

It's not so much that we're not going to supervise them. In fact,
right now that gate is going up upstairs, where they spend no time
except sleeping. Rather, my concern right now is that while they
don't seem close to climbing out of their cribs, who knows? So the
scenario I'm worried about is them getting out at night and then
tumbling down the stairs.

They will get out of cribs ) When my younger brother was 3-4 and
grocery shopping was done by walking to the store, my mom had a harness
with a leash for my bro'. Just a cotton vest-type thingy so she could
carry groceries AND keep him out of the traffic. I got a similar thing
when one of my toddlers would not stay in bed at night. It could fasten
to the bed frame, allow him to turn and sit up without getting
strangled. He could turn on his light, read a book if he wasn't
inclined to go to sleep. One night when I went in to check on him, he
had been very quiet and I expected him to be asleep. He was awake,
greeted me with a big smile as I walked in and saw that he had opened up
a seam on his feather pillow....feathers all over.

The thing about the nuts is just my own, parental paranoia.

Parental paranoia is healthy ..

In terms of toddlers doing damage, these are twins, and someone on a
local multiples group list said her twins took their diapers off at
night and smeared $4it on the walls.

[snip]

Parents tend to react when kids are noisy, but the time to worry is when
they are too quiet ) I remember a story told by Joyce Brothers, about
the difference between boys and girls. A mother was bothered by her
little boys running, jumping and yelling when they played. OTOH, the
little girl was very quiet. One day, mother asked the little girl what
she was doing, and the little girl answered sweetly, "Nothing, mommy."
Nothing but decorating the walls of her room with mommy's best lipstick.
BTDT )

If you ever hear a "funny noise", don't ignore it.