https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 23 May 2026 21:29:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1660008 Tue, 27 May 2014 10:40:44 +0000 lamariniere 1660008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: sounds like we have the same kid! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659979 Tue, 27 May 2014 10:30:52 +0000 Sammyfab 1659979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: same here. The only baby-proofing item we have in our house is outlet covers and we don't even really need them.</p> <p>He is super good about holding our hands in busy places and he looks for us before going up a playground structure and going down slides. He does need a lot of coaxing and demonstration to try new things...but eventually he warms up. Strangers get the stink eye unless you're a bus driver or fireman.</p> <p>We live behind a school and he will climb up the hill to get to the field but he won't go any further unless he knows we are watching (he will look and call out for us). Once I give him the go ahead he runs to the playground! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659956 Tue, 27 May 2014 10:20:24 +0000 autumnlove 1659956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cautious at first! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659944 Tue, 27 May 2014 10:15:29 +0000 MrsRcCar 1659944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>N is completely fearless. It scares me so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659803 Tue, 27 May 2014 09:33:49 +0000 .twist. 1659803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: hahaha OMG, that sounds so cute. L climbs the really well, but he needs major work on going down them. (Up or down, he needs supervision 100% of the time.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659782 Tue, 27 May 2014 09:25:23 +0000 Alivoo01 1659782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fearless!! He'll be dangling off the couch and it doesn't bother him one bit... Ahhh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659704 Tue, 27 May 2014 09:02:03 +0000 loveisstrange 1659704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Completely fearless. She plunges head first off things. She reaches out to be picked up by random strangers (did it yesterday!). She's always climbing, exploring, and getting into things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659627 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:51 +0000 LuLu Mom 1659627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E is so fearless I get scared! She sees a pool of water, she wants to run and jump in it (not knowing how to swim), she just loves to JUMP off anything, no matter if someone is there to catch her. She gives me daily heart rushes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659625 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:36:26 +0000 Cherrybee 1659625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: E is nowhere near learning to climb stairs yet! We have tried her but she gets excited, lifts her hands off, waves them about and squeals! Crazy baby!! </p> <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: Thanks!!</p> <p>@Corduroy: Aaw, E loves water! I hope your LO warms up to water because it's so much fun!!! </p> <p>@Adira: Woah!! Heart attack time!! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659600 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:29:27 +0000 .twist. 1659600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He is usually cautious unless excited. If he gets really excited he doesn't pay attention to his limits and crosses them! </p> <p>For example, normally he is very cautious at any stairs. He will look down them, consider his plan of attack, then usually try one hand, then try to turn around, etc. but if he sees me at the end of the hall, he will just try to go all in, hands down steps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659596 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:28:42 +0000 Foodnerd81 1659596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think C is sort of in the middle, but fairy cautious. She doesn't have stranger anxiety (yet), but she takes a few minutes to warm up. Like, she will look intently at the new person for several minutes, then bust out the smiles if they meet her approval (they usually do). Physically, she actually didn't really start pulling up to stand until she could also sit herself back down-- which saved me a lot of tears, I'm sure. </p> <p>The caution does not extend to the changing table, unfortunately. She would happily launch herself right off if I am not right there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659556 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:15:00 +0000 luckypenny 1659556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She is super cautious. I try to get her to do more on the playground by herself. She is 2 and slowly becoming more confident with herself physically. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659551 Tue, 27 May 2014 08:13:01 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1659551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: she is so adorable!</p> <p>Chloe is fearless. She has no concept of danger. Yesterday she climbed up a ladder to get to the slide at my uncles house, and wanted to climb across the monkey bars. My husband helped her &amp; she screamed for him to let go. Uh, no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659521 Tue, 27 May 2014 07:54:31 +0000 Corduroy 1659521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cute! My LO is fearless around people. She shouts "Hi!" at anybody she sees. Especially when we're out on walks, she shouts at people all the way down the block. People are always shocked when they see it was "the baby" that said hi. </p> <p>Physically she's pretty cautious. She's just starting to walk now at 15 months. It took her a while to go through her tunnel. She is not into water at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659459 Tue, 27 May 2014 07:02:55 +0000 Anagram 1659459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is pretty cautious. Although she also does the just-letting-go-while-standing thing. And she's always trying to crawl off the bed. I think that's because she doesn't understand gravity yet, not because she's fearless because she's *very* cautious the rest of the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659448 Tue, 27 May 2014 06:36:01 +0000 Adira 1659448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fearless (although definitely cautious around strangers). His favorite new thing is climbing onto the count and then just walking straight off!!!!! We USUALLY catch him, but he's wiped out a couple times already, haha. It doesn't stop him from doing it though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659445 Tue, 27 May 2014 06:29:04 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1659445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Crazy fearless. But it seems that once she has a bad experience, she avoids it - thank goodness! </p> <p>Case in point: there's a big-kid slide at our local playground. It's built on a little hill, so smaller kids can easily climb the grassy stairs before actually climbing the stairs onto the slide. But the slide itself goes all the way down the hill. DD fearlessly slid down the slide in the rain, with her raincoat on. She FLEW ... and loved it! And insisted in doing it again!</p> <p>She got up on her own, walked around and climbed the hill as I waited at the slide. She did this over and over until she handed hard on her butt. She now refuses to slide. She'll walk all the way up, but then decides to go back down. DH and I are delighted to see that she has at least some natural instinct of self-preservation!!! :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659436 Tue, 27 May 2014 06:16:30 +0000 Dandelion 1659436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D is very cautious. Always has been. I'm interested to see if M will be like him or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659427 Tue, 27 May 2014 06:04:05 +0000 bushelandapeck 1659427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fearless is most situations but cautious when we first meet new people. He's the kind of kid that will jump off of anything and get right back up if he gets hurt, without ever complaining. He had 11 stitches a few weeks ago and was literally running around in the emergency department! Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659424 Tue, 27 May 2014 05:59:06 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1659424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cute! I think DD is pretty balanced. Most physical things she's pretty fearless but she studies things for a while! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659409 Tue, 27 May 2014 05:33:54 +0000 lamariniere 1659409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is incredibly cautious. I don't ever have to worry about him jumping head first from the couch or something like that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659406 Tue, 27 May 2014 05:26:05 +0000 Cherrybee 1659406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and here she is in her tunnel!! </p> [attach=2581/14/n68abj.600x450.WP_003181.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-lo-cautious-or-fearless#post-1659405 Tue, 27 May 2014 05:25:25 +0000 Cherrybee 1659405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So this morning, I dropped E off at my inlaws and there, in the middle of the living room, was a crawl tunnel my FIL had bought for her over the weekend. My MIL was convinced that E would be too scared to go inside but we waited to see what she made of it. Well, E regarded it for a while, pulled at the edges, and then crawled right into it!! </p> <p>It's further proof that E is completely fearless. She has zero stranger anxiety (eek). She doesn't understand that she needs to hold on when she pulls up - she just turns around and falls over! She's not scared of anything! I have a feeling that this is going to be a nightmare when she's walking - no common sense, like mummy!! :happy: </p> <p>My friend's little lad, however, has always been really cautious.It took him ages to let go of the furniture when he started cruising (sensible boy!) and at 18 months he is terrified of enclosed spaces; he even hates the baby change rooms in restaurants. It's funny how children can be so different! </p> <p>Is your LO cautious or fearless? </p>