Crap. Jack can get out of his crib.

[LaraMN]

Poll question: Crap. Jack can get out of his crib.

What to do?

[miss_american_pie]

1. Other: cat tent

:thumbsup:

[LaraMN]

4. What's that?

I've never had a kitty.

[miss_american_pie]

6. A big mesh tentlike contraption

that gets attached to the top of the crib so a cat can't jump in. And a kid can't climb out. :evilgrin:

[kiraboo]

2. I like the duct tape idea.

But you have to leave it on for good, because it'll hurt to remove it.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Ya know. They DO make those tents that go over the top of the

crib and keep the wanderers in.

Just a suggestion.


DU LOVES JACK!!!!!!!

[LaraMN]

5. Honestly, you know what I think would happen if I put one of those on?

He would tip over the entire crib. Seriously. He is using his arms to flip his entire body up and over the top of the crib. Low muscle tone with Downs, my ass!

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Shit. If he is doing that, you are outta options, girl.

How about a toddler bed? and put a screen door with a lock on the outside on his door?

That way, you can see/hear him, but he has to stay in his room. You know, for bed.

I never liked the locked door option until one of my colleagues many many moons ago suggested the screen door. Keeps them in the room, but you can still be on top of it.

[LaraMN]

11. I was thinking toddler bed, leave the door open with a baby gate up,

but then I realized he would scale the baby gate and climb over in about two seconds. Screen door... hmmm... maybe I could try that.

[ThomCat]

8. That's it, you're doomed.

Doomed, I say. :yoiks:
You'll never get any rest ever again!

:hug:

[LaraMN]

12. That's what I'm afraid of.

He's been using his feet to push the crib away from the wall to reach toys, for awhile, so I can only imagine what he'll get into if he can get out of his crib...

[ceile]

9. vibrating crib mattress!

that's just evil. :rofl:

[LaraMN]

13. Desperate times require desperate measures.

But yeah, that might give him shaken baby syndrome. Probably not a viable option. :P

[LeftyMom]

10. Time for a toddler bed

Sure, it's easier to get out of, but he can get out of bed anyway. At least with a toddler bed he won't hurt himself.

[LaraMN]

14. Sigh. That's what I'm thinkin'.

He's gonna screw around with everything in his room. Ugh.

[LeftyMom]

15. He'll get bored with that eventually.

Is he an early riser? The problem I ran into with LeftyKid (who was climbing out of the crib as soon as he could walk and had to be moved to a toddler bed at a year old) was that he'd wake up before me and get into trouble. I had to put locks he couldn't reach on the doors and childproof the whole house. He's just not getting to where I can count on him to get up before me and just watch cartoons or something instead of trying to reduce the house to it's constituent molecules.

If somebody else is awake before him or at about the same time that should help.

[Richardo]

16. Turn up the gravity in his room

Do I have to think of everything?

Good luck, Lara - the adventure continues.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. You don't know Jack. -nt

[LibertyLover]

17. To quote the doodoos in Ice Age I

Doom on you! Doom on you! Life as you knew it is now officially over.

[billyskank]

18. Dunno, could you like grease his bars, or something?

:hi:

[applegrove]

20. Wow. That's a whole new world! Put on your running shoes.

[tjwmason]

21. Tie him to a piece of elastic.

That way is he gets close to being out of the crib he'll bounce back in.