PS My wife quickly stopped the experiment, which worked quite good.

LOL Thats the "ruining it" part We just bought a 2800 sq ft house. We picked this one out because of the openness between the kitchen and family room on the BOTTOM floor. My wife would have plenty of room to take care of her daily responsibilities and have no obstructions to prevent her from monitoring the kids as they played... except they wont get with the program and stay in the family room

So, yeah, that is probably the plan, keep them in one room until they understand how it is SUPPOSED to work. Only problem is the only easily secure-able rooms are on the top floor. The bottom floor rooms flow into each other in a very open style, no choke points to lock down with a gate.

The great irony is that the only time they want to stay in the family room is bedtime

Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for?

I heard that in B.C. now if a child is sleeping in the same ROOM as the parents, Child Services takes the child away from parents. I'm still baffled as to why. They dont care if you cant afford it.

Electric fence ?

I tried looking that up, and got nothing.

What is something like that about, anyway?

This should discourage the little tyke from climbing the stairs!

Cheers!

Rick...

Tried one of these?

http://www.jefferslivestock.com/ssc/prod...p;pf_id=0034996

I hate to tell you this,but when it was said to me,I didn't like it either.
Kids will fall down and get hurt,all you can do is react.

Sure enough our 2 yr old had many falls,face first into concrete sidewalk,no warning.
Down 15 steps I managed to scoop him up before he hit the door at the bottom.

He was a tougher kid at 2 than he is now at 5,I remember when he brush burned his forehead on the sidewalk,not a shred of tears,he actually laughed.

No kidding,now he is opposite,if he gets ANYthing that looks like a boo-boo,its emergency time for a band-aid.

Cheers and welcome to The joys of Child stresshood