I have a 5 month old puppy and we have to baracade him to one are of the house with baby gates. He knows where he’s supposed to go to the bathroom, but in protest of the baby gate, he goes right in front of the gate making a huge mess to clean up when I get home. How can I break him of this?? Please help!!
we only use the baby gates when we have to leave him to go to work. when we are home he knows where he can and cannot go.

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I’ve got several baby gates that I need to install. Most are pressure mounted but I have 2 that will have to be screwed into the wall.

The problem is I have ornate baseboards all over the house and to make it worse downstairs we have wooden floors so under the baseboards there are additional rounded pieces of wood baseboard that match the wood flooring; kind of like this: http://www.rags2richs.net/kenny-baseboard-best.jpg

I have no flat space to work with. I’ve seen the baby gate installation kits but the pictures show flat baseboards. What can I do without ripping the baseboards out to create a flat surface? I can’t just drill wood into the baseboard because of the decoration.

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we have baby gates on our stairs, somehow my 2 year old gets it down and climbs up the stairs. what do i do

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My daughters going to be 4 in jan…..she still wont sleep in her own room…She has the cute lil night light and the nice princess bed sheets…im really hoping after christmas with all her new toys…(i got her a ton of stuff) she might start sleeping in her bed..because every night she sleeps in between my husband and i….its not just her sleeping with us…ever night she has to hold my hand…and if she wakes up in the night without it she screams non stop…This woman i work with told me to babygate her in her room…after xmas with all her new stuff…and she might start sleeping in there…(im just hoping she does it on her own) We’ve tried everything me sleeping in her room…and then getting up and leaving…or her sleeping in our room and then moving her to her room…i tried sleeping in her floor and holding her hand…i know shes only 3 and shes really dependent on me right now…but i just….i love her to death..but i need space…specially in my queen sized bed!!!!
Is there anything else i could try before trying the baby gates?…i really just want her to sleep in her own bed..her beds a twin size..shes got plenty of room….They sound okay but i know shes going to cry…and ijust dont know if i can leave her in there..lol but i dont want her sleeping in my bed til shes 15!!!
well we’ve even tried movin her to a mattress on the floor..next to her bed…and that worked for about a week and then we tried to move her a lil further away from our bed to the hall….and she freaked and now shes back in our bed
Yeah we’ve done the big girl thing…and your not a baby no more…so you dont have to sleep with us..cause you have a big girl bed..and all your big girl stuff…and she still insists in sleeping in our room…and sometimes she goes so far shell…say im the baby…and i know shes our baby…lol…theres really no reward system..this girl has everything under the sun and then some…lol…..

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My son is almost 2, I am pregnant with our third, due in Feb, I’ve got two toddler beds and one crib. So I was planning on getting him into a toddler bed before Feb anyway but hadn’t put much thought into it. But now my son has figured out how to get out of the crib, so I guess now would be a good time to start. My daughter is 4, I don’t remember having a problem with her, she was so much more advanced and I was a single mother at the time so she had always slept with me in a real bed not a crib so moving her to her own bed was really easy. So even though he is my second I feel kinda clueless on how to go about getting him to start sleeping in a toddler bed. He was a premie and seems a little slower with his learning and I know that he will be up and down all night and that he will get into things quietly that we may not hear right away. I know a lot of kids do that. We block off most of the house with baby gates but now he can climb over those too. continued read on….
I am not a deep sleeper and most of the time I hear every little thing, but he has gotten up a few times when I didn’t hear him until 10 min or so later, estimating. I’m wondering if there are any parents out there that have found tecniques that have worked for them when it comes to this. I have no ideas. So any advice would help. How did you get your child to start sleeping in a toddler bed?

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My daughter is drawn to electrical cords. And if we’re not careful she’d love to just shove the thing in her mouth and chew. I have baby gates, and doors shut so that eliminates all cords except one. And it’s a lamp so it’s not like I can just unplug it because then we’d be in the dark. Other than constantly pulling her away from it, is there anything I can do to hide the cord or something? What do you do with cords?

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I have 4 drawers that I can’t find anything to baby proof them. Any suggestions?
In my kitchen I have 4 drawers that are all stacked together. And i can’t find anything to baby proof them with. These drawers are the only thing keeping my son out of the kitchen, because there are knives in there. I tired to use those cabinet things that you have to push down to open, but they don’t fit (we live in a mobile home). I also bought some Safety first plastic things that you fasten to the side and then you can push it in and its kind of like a belt buckle. bc the wood of our cabinets are fake, they didnt stick! Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can baby proof these drawers? We have baby gates up now, but im so tired of them, they are such a hastle to go over and over 20 times a day!

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Hi, my daughter is almost 9 months and on the verge of crawling! I need to get my house baby proofed asap! I want to go to the store today and pick up all the stuff I will need, so if you could maybe give me a list of what you bought to child proof the house I would really appreciate it! We have a two story home, so I know I will need baby gates and I have seen the cuboard locks but what else is needed? Thanks so much!!

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I pet sit and am a dog walker for 2 weimaraners(1 year old and 2.5 year old). Their parents are away from home from about 10am-10pm for 2 months during legislative session. I walk or run with the dogs for at least 30 minutes(normally more like an hour) 2x/day when their owners have long hours.

If you know weimaraners, you know they are smart. The one year old can lock the deadbolts and open push down handle doors. She also has some separation anxiety. The 2.5 year old isn’t as much of an issue– better behaved, clearly.

Our problem is they still seem to be bursting with energy if the owners get home much later, and they sometimes are pulling me like work horses on our walks/runs. We were going to try to let them roam free in the house instead of crates, but are afraid of damage and being locked out…

Does anyone have any experience with large dogs and baby gates? Do they normally obey the barrier or try to jump it? Any weimaraner experience?

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I’m due twins in November, and I live a two storey house.
I personally want to put up baby gates on the stairs and kitchen etc before the babies come, but my partner says there’s no point putting them up before the babies can at least crawl, but won’t we be rushed off our feet then?
When should we put them up?

Thanks for the answers.
Now that I think about it, it would make sense to leave the baby gates down until the babies can crawl as they would get in the way.

Now I’m going to have to tell my partner that he was right. Grrrrrr…

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