Climbing Madness!

I wanted to call this post "I'm in climbing Hell" but I did not think it appropriate for a Montessori blog--but I wanted to!

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My son is literally climbing the walls (and baby gates and chairs and table tops and bookshelves and the tops of boxes and sometimes the cat--the friendly one). He is going through climbing madness!

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OK, not really, but it feels like madness to me! Why? I'm always saying: "Please get down from there!" "Chairs are for sitting on!" "Tables are for eating on!" "How did you get up there?!" "Don't climb on the stereo!" "Hey!" "No!" (Notice how I begin to sound less like Montessori teacher and more like a frustrated mom!)

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My son cannot stop climbing. He climbs on EVERYTHING. I actually took half the furniture out of our living room slash dining room because he would not stop crawling on and jumping off stuff! (I swear he was a mountain goat in another life!)

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We do allow him to climb on the couch and his eating chair, out of guilt for living in a small home with no yard. And we take him to the park or out for a walk. (Good news, we are buying a house this summer! And it will have no furniture! OK, some.)

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Maybe he will be a world renowned rock climber some day!

What child madness is going on in your home? Make a comment!