https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:12:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-725203 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:19:48 +0000 Weagle 725203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're trying to make sure LO crawls down backwards. She caught on pretty quick by me moving her legs for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-725202 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:19:25 +0000 regberadaisy 725202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She just crawled down yesterday for the first time! Just kinda figured it out on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-725200 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:19:04 +0000 chopsuey 725200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We showed her how to.<br /> Put her on the stairs (facing the stairs), and had her put one leg down, then the other, followed by her hands.<br /> She learned super quick. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-725194 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:16:56 +0000 irene 725194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh wow, thanks for this for I didn't know that we supposed to teach him crawl down the stairs! I guess I am always very paranoid. LO crawls up the stairs on his own but when we need to go down I carry him down. I should start teaching him how to crawl down on his own.</p> <p>I have a question - you guys do watch him while he's crawling up and down, right? Or do you just let your LO wander freely now that he/she knows how to crawl up and downstairs? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-707108 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:57:06 +0000 Honeybee 707108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS goes down the stairs backward, but DD never did. When she was little she just decided to slide down, one stair at a time, on her bottom. If your DS listens well enough, you might be able to teach him how to slide instead of go down backward. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706724 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:05:57 +0000 glimmersnaps 706724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could try crawling down backward yourself and make a game of it. My son initially learned to do it by watching an older toddler. By now he walks down but he used to like 'sliding' down on his belly. My husband would make a race of it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706364 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:04:35 +0000 Sammyfab 706364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like pp, I would turn him around and guide him down the stairs every time he tried to go head first. Finally, at 13 months he figured out what to do on his own! He's still really hesitant now (he's the most cautious baby ever) and sometimes he just reaches out for me to carry him down. :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706306 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:44:19 +0000 Penny Lane 706306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my mama says she taught me to crawl backwards downstairs as soon as i learnt to crawl up (8 months or so). i'll have to ask her secret, because lo crawled up half a flight of stairs yesterday like it was nothing </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706287 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:26:56 +0000 Raindrop 706287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rubies: @skibobrown: Thank you for your input! My co-worker's nanny taught her daughter to go down the stairs at about 9 months. We thought there was a super secret we didn't know and I thought the HelloBee ladies would let me in on it. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706263 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:10:22 +0000 skibobrown 706263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have two stairs that go up to a landing and then down into our bedroom that can't be gated off. I tried for ages to teach DD to go down them backwards. Basically, every time she tried to go down forward, I would flip her around and have her go down backward. She didn't get it for the longest time, and then one day, just before she turned 1, something clicked. Now she always backs down those stairs. I don't trust her nearly enough yet to do a full flight of stairs, so those remain always gated off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706224 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:42:42 +0000 Rubies 706224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never taught LO how to go down...I tried, but she didn't listen. She learned on her own as she learned how to walk. But we just put up gates and/or kept a very close eye on her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/crawling-down-the-stairs#post-706100 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:37:57 +0000 Raindrop 706100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO can go up the stairs no problem. Going down is another story. He tries usually to go down head first and we usually save him before he gets into too much trouble. We have tried to "teach" him to go backwards down the stairs but he is very resistant in learning from us.</p> <p>I know crawling is a small part of their lives and I was hoping to skip this but LO seems to really like trying to go up and down stairs. I just wished he did the going down part in a less scary way. :)</p> <p>How did you teach your LO to crawl down the stairs? </p>