Climbing stairs...

Renee - posted on 06/27/2009

Even after numerous attemps to get him to turn him around and go down backwards, he still refuses. He wants to WALK down the stairs. The stairs are gated off on top and bottom. Now he pushes me away while I keep my hands by him while he is going up the stairs. What an independent little man he is turning out to be!!

Candice - posted on 06/27/2009

backwards is the best way, but never alone!

Melody - posted on 06/27/2009

our son also put crawling and stairs together right away! He's been going up since about 10 months and only started with down around his birthday. He goes down crawling in reverse and makes good time! I figured since we have stairs I wanted him to know how use to them and how to use them safely

Kelsey - posted on 06/08/2009

My son does the same thing.. We just simply turn him around and make him go down backwards.. he already was familiar with this because we taught him this way to get off of the couch. Hope this helps

Deidre - posted on 06/03/2009

I hold my daughter's hand when she wants to go down stairs and she does it like I do, except I'm holding most of her weight heh. She bends her knees and everything. We don't have stairs or anything in our home though so she practices mainly at the playground.

Alyssa - posted on 06/03/2009

Van has been climbing stairs since he could crawl - one kinda followed the other. He has yet to go down by himself (on his butt or on his knees). Dad and I do try to show him, and he's gone down one or two steps like that... but then he gets excited and goes right back up.
We have baby gates at the stairs and eyes like hawks. No spills yet!

Cheryl - posted on 06/03/2009

I think 1 is too young to ever be on a set of stairs. All our steps are locked or gated and will stay that way in the foreseeable future.

Cathralynn - posted on 06/02/2009

My daughter goes up the normal way but won't go down either. I got a baby gate for the BOTTOM of the stairs. Hee-Hee. Everytime I rounded the corner she was 3-4 stairs up and climbing quick! I'm afraid of her falling down. But anyways we go to gymboree. I've noticed her learning things I didn't know she could when she watches other kids do it. And she's more patient there to keep trying things she doesn't like. She has learned how to sit down when I ask which makes me feel better but we're still working on the backwards thing. I say just keep trying. Repetition!