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Nope! He is 20 months and in to everything. He takes the bulbs off and then bites the top part off! I've put them all out of reach. Our tree looks ridiculous now, lol.

We've had a kid at just about every age at Christmas time and we've never had them be into the trre, ever! At 7 months, 12 months, 19 months, 2 years, 3 years...they've always strangely stayed away from the tree and all the ornaments!

We've had our tree up since Saturday and DS (15 months) has not messed with it at all. He points at the different ornaments he can name (balls) or with sounds he can make (monkey) but surprisingly he has so far not tried to touch the ornaments or take them off. I'm pretty surprised bc he is obsessed with throwing balls!

LO is 23 months, and he pretty much ignores it. He will occasionally go point at the airplane ornament on the tree (way up high out of reach) and ask to see it, but otherwise, he acts like he could care less.

Last year she did awesome! This year is a little tougher, day one was the hardest. She actually had a few timeouts that day because she just could not listen (I can't imagine how hard it must be not to touch it!) but she's done well the rest of the week. I still have to remind her not touch but she does okay, even when I'm not in the room. My 7 month old rolled on over and started munching on the tree skirt right away but now it's like she doesn't even notice it anymore.

He likes to look at it, but rarely touches it. He claps when we plug in the lights though.

We are getting ours this weekend, and I'm worried about my 18 month old...she's a climber to the point that she stacks step stools, trash cans, etc. to get to what she wants. No amount of naked tree at the bottom will be enough to stop her. I'm hoping the 3.5 year old can obey rules, but her listening has been terrible the past week or so. I may just buy them their own little tree for distraction.

eTA: when DD1 was 18 months, I taught her the tree was hot and she didn't touch it. DD2 talks a lot about things being hot (radiators, steam pipes.....we live in a Victorian era home, haha)...so I may employ the "ouch, hot, don't touch!" Tactic with her,

No and it is driving me crazy!!! DD2,(22,months) is constantly pulling fragile ornaments off the tree - I tried to put most of my fragile ones up high but she has a good reach and can climb on the couch to get to them, so it was a futile effort.

We have hard floors on most of the ground floor so she's already managed to break three ornaments, including one of my expensive waterfords. I am about to gate off the lounge and keep them both out as I think I might seriously lose the plot if she breaks anymore of my ornaments!

My 2 year old ignores it, like it's just another piece of furniture. He does like when it's on though. When it's off he asks, "where light go?"

Funny you posted this bc last year DD was one and didn't bother the tree at all, this year she's already taken down a few ornaments. I wasn't planning to block it off since she didn't bother it this year... sooo I'm wondering if we'll have any ornaments left by Christmas day!!

They were doing so good and then yesterday I caught E1 telling E2 (who is 8 months old) it's okay if you touch the presents, mommy knows you are a baby...here touch this one

I've been reading Janet Lansbury's "No Bad Kids" so Blake has gracefully given me the opportunity to practice the techniques in the book all day every day in relation to the tree. We've progressed from pulling on the branches to just standing a good distance away and throwing balls and toy fruit at it. It's a work in progress...

We only have a little one up in the basement so far, so it's really only an issue when we are down there playing with the toy kitchen. Alice couldn't care less about the tree, but it holds a special appeal for Blake (So. Many. Balls!!!). We may go ornament-less for our upstairs tree, or put it in the 4 season room so we can close the sliding glass door and admire it from a distance.

Our 21mo is really pretty good about the tree. We also don't have fragile ornaments, and we tied it to the alarm box on the wall to prevent it from falling over. (The alarm is not activated.) We are more concerned about the cats to be honest.

Ughhhh, my 2.5 year old is driving me craaaazy! She is constantly taking ornaments off and rearranging them!

My 3 year old has accepted that we only touch the tree when we were setting it up, and now we leave it alone. What she's obsessed with is the advent calendar. She wants to move the reindeer multiple times a day, every day.

DD is an ornament thief! So I just put a couple small ones at the bottle that I let her steal.

Yep! The first couple days she would go and touch her Elsa ornament but that's all.

This thread just reminded me that my LO turned on the tree this morning (we have a push button on the floor that controls all the lights) and I never turned it off..... thank goodness the tree is well watered and we have all LED lights