At what age did you teach your LO to go down stairs. Did you use the slide down each step with your butt or climb backwards method?
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with the boy I nanny we started as soon as he was crawling/climbing things. He could climb up the steps great but try to go down headfirst. From day one we taught him to turn around and scoot one leg down at a time. He learned really quickly and thankfully has never had a head-first tumble.
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I much prefer the going-down-backwards method... if he is going down on his butt it's a little too easy for him to just stand up and lean over.
We started probably a month after he was able to go UP the stairs. -
DD learned right at about 1 year old; she slides down on her butt. At around 20 months, she was able to walk down the stairs, front-facing, holding my hand.
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My LO just figured it out himself. We have a step that leads to the backyard and we let him practice himself to see what worked best for him. He eventually decided to go down backwards.
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DD didn't really go down the stairs until she knew that she could walk down the stairs by herself, at about 20 months.
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Recently at 13 months my DH tried to lure my LO down the stairs. I was scared that he would fall, and we just watched him slowly go down backwards all on his own. Very scary but glad that he figured out how to go down.
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