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My son is incredibly cautious. I don't ever have to worry about him jumping head first from the couch or something like that.

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.

Crazy fearless. But it seems that once she has a bad experience, she avoids it - thank goodness!

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!

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!!!

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.

@Cherrybee: she is so adorable!

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 & she screamed for him to let go. Uh, no.

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.

The caution does not extend to the changing table, unfortunately. She would happily launch herself right off if I am not right there.

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.

@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.)

Cautious at first!

@Sammyfab: sounds like we have the same kid!