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One thing we have been doing is teaching him how to safely get down. At least then we don't have to jump up and rescue him. My heart attack story was when he 11 months old (couldn't even walk yet) and we had the 3 step step ladder out. I went pee and I come out to him at the top of it. Yeah I pretty much died right there. But now, we don't worry as much about him.

His thing now is jumping. He thinks getting on the couch and jumping as close to the edge as possible is fun. Or jumping to the wall at swim lessons before jumping off.

For us we somewhat let her have the freedom to explore. I made sure it wasn't always no, no, no. Partly because she was going to find a way to climb somewhere anyways so I wanted her to have skills and partly so she'd take me seriously when I did say NO. We help teach her to get down as well as to get up.

There have been some bumps and bruises but those bruises have helped her get some level of fear and caution, which she had zero before. And when we let her have the freedom to explore it's always in a way where the worst that could happen is she falls at a low height and gets a bruise. For other stuff she's supervised with our hands right there and she gets a strong No and time out if she's caught being a danger girl while we're not by her to help.

Saving this for reference!