11 Month Old Knows No Fear
By dixiepeach00
@dixiepeach00 (87)
United States
November 14, 2008 5:56pm CST
My son is 11 months old and I am afraid with the way he is going he will seriously hurt himself before he turns 1. He climbs on EVERYTHING. He digs in the trash. He literally jumped out of his highchair yesterday. He was strapped in and somehow still got out and hit the floor. I took him to the store today and he kept trying to jump out of the cart. I had him strapped in a he wiggled enough to turn around and I caught him in mid flight trying to get into the back of the cart. And he doesn't listen if you tell him no (even if he is getting into something, like the trash can, and I pop his hand and tell him no, he still doesn't stop). Any help or comfort would be greatly appreciated.
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5 responses
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
15 Nov 08
I know exactly how you feel - we used to call my almost 3 year old "Baby have no fear".
@msbawangada (710)
• India
15 Nov 08
thats the way kids r.. try to divert his mind in some pictures game or indoor and safer games (balls etc).. u got to pay attention to kids all the time.. u can not deny that anyways ;)
@_meliska (15)
• United States
15 Nov 08
My son is the same way. He climbs out of the highchair if we go out to eat. He climbs onto the chair and ottoman in the living room. He tries to climb the rocking chair, but it pops back and knocks him down. He just gets up and tries again. I ran into the bathroom the other day (literally 5 feet from the playroom) to grab my jewelry, and in the 15 seconds that it took me to do that, he was on top of his Little Likes table. He had moved the chairs and used that to get on top of it. I about had a heart attack. We can't even contain him anymore - he can climb the old fashioned wooden gates and the cloth ones. We bought a cloth one because we thought it was climb proof!
@yuna15 (2706)
• Philippines
15 Nov 08
Welcome to the world of motherhood dixiepeach00! All you can do is protect the child at all costs. If you can get somebody to help you then do so. But you know what you're lucky that he's already active at that age it means his development is advanced. My daughter learned to walk when she was 13 months old.
Just take it easy. Children learn little by little. AS for now they cannot understand if they'll get hurt whenever they do something. All they wanna do is play. Just be persistent on telling the child about him being hurt. He will eventually understand it just be patient. 
@mdesigning (345)
• Netherlands
14 Nov 08
I'm 22 years old and this is one of the reasons why I'm afraid of getting children. It's scary if something happens to them. I don't really have any experience but from what I've learned in some TV shows it's important to let them know what's wrong and what's right. So be strict on them and they will learn. Also watch them carefully, they can be tricky like monkeys! Yours already sounds like one if I hear his behaviour lol.
