What am i suppose to do?

Question

My 2 1/2 yr old son wakes up before both me and my husband and for the past 2 mornings i have found him in the knife drawer (just butter knives but irregardless) and getting into food. I set my alarm to try and beat him to the punch but yet again he was up before me. What can i do to keep him from doing this? What can i do so i dont have to worry about him short of waking up at 5 am?

Answer 1

Time for a safety latch on the fridge, and cabinet locks. You can find a great child safety kit at any Babies R Us or Walmart for about $20-$30.

Answer 2

About 2-1/2 million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. The good news is that many of these incidents can be prevented by using simple child safety devices on the market today.

1 Use Safety Latches and Locks
2 Use Safety Gates
3 Use Door Knob Covers and Door Locks
4 Use Anti-Scald Devices
5 Use Smoke Detectors
6 Use Window Guards and Safety Netting
7 Use Corner and Edge Bumpers
8 Use Outlet Covers and Outlet Plates
9 Use a Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detector
10 Cut Window Blind Cords; use Safety Tassels and Inner Cord Stops
11 Use Door Stops and Door Holders to
12 Use a Cordless Phone

if your child is getting up before you and you 'cant' get up before him, why not put a safety gate on his bedroom door so he cant get out of his room?? Who is the parent - it's commen sense

Answer 3

Buy a latch for the fridge and for the oven and for all the cabinets and drawers. Put a gate in front of his door and a doorknob cover on it from inside. At the very least he should make enough noise to wake u up while climbing over the gate and struggling with the door and latches.

I've gotten mixed opinions about this one before, but if your son can get through all of that, safety is MOST IMPORTANT! Turn his doorknob around so it locks from the outside. Lock him in his room at night. If you need to put in a monitor so you can hear if he wakes up and needs to go to the bathroom or something then do that. Or tell him to knock on his door if he needds you (if you could hear him from your room). Sounds like a matter of going to the store and investing in some baby proofing equipment.

Answer 4

Has he figured out how to undo the drawer locks?? If you don't have any, this should fix it. If you have some but he is a smarty pants, there are locks that require a magnet key to open them, you could try that. He also need to be punished when you catch him doing this, be sure to do the dramatic, knives can give you owies- maybe touch the end of the knife and say OW! and put him on a 2 minute time out if he does it again. Set the boundary, but child proof for peace of mind. Good luck!!

Answer 5

Be very careful about deciding to lock him in his room like some of the suggestions. When my daughter was 2 she used to get up in the middle of the night and roam the house. She was able to get past the gate at the top and bottom of the stairs, unlatch all the safety devices in the kitchen, and even open the sliding glass door to the backyard. I tried using a baby monitor to hear when she got up, but she quickly learned to turn it off. I was so afraid for her safety that I turned the knob around on her door to lock her in. That way when she woke up she had to call to me to get up. It worked well, but one night my mother was visiting and had a medical emergency. The police officer who arrived discovered my daughter was locked in her room. He charged me with child endangerment. It was a nightmare for several months until the judge finally dismissed the charges. I didn't understand why they would put me through all of this. I had been a foster parent for 8 years and had case workers in my home every week. All the reports of my home and parenting were glowing. Thank goodness I had so many people on my side fighting for me. Even though I felt it was the last resort to keep her safe, I would never do it again. After all this happened I started locking her in my bedroom with me at night. I hope my nightmare helps prevent someone else from going through it.

Answer 6

Put a baby gate up at his door. That way he will have to call you so he can get out. Also, in case that doesn't work--install child proof locks on the silverware drawer. I'm sure they have a similar lock for the fridge as well.

Answer 7

I went through the same thing with my oldest. First thing you need to do is put chain locks on all the doors so he can't get out of the house. Then lock up anything he could possible hurt himself with ( knives, bleach, etc). Unplug all your appliances and put child proof caps in them. Flip the switch to turn off your stove if you can't lock it, and anything else he could possibly climp up on and get hurt with... washer, dryer.. etc that you can't lock up. My son climbed on our glass top stove then started playing with the knobs (the locks didn't fit my stove).. thankfully I caught him just in time so he didn't get burnt. I went without more then 2 hours sleep for years. It got to the point that I'd wake up any time the house was silent.
Try a baby gate but none of them worked for us, he'd climb them. You can even get a hook latch for his bedroom door but I don't recommend this for fear of fires.
You can try to teach him to come in and wake you up when he gets up. That's what I did with my son. I told him that I was 'sleeping beauty' and he was my little prince so he had to wake me up with a kiss every morning. This worked better then anything else I tried.
My son would go to sleep at 1-2 am then was up at 5-6 am. He was like that up until a year ago (he's 16 now). Try going to bed earlier and letting hubby put your son to bed so you can wake up earlier then you normally do. My son didn't grow out of it for years but hopefully yours will.

Answer 8

I would definately toddler proof your kitchen- put locks on everything including your stove and fridge, also put away anything that could be dangerous or poisonous to him.

Maybe you could bribe him. Tell him if he comes and wakes you or dad up as soon as he wakes up, you will take him out to breakfast or to the park or something. Reward the positive behavior.

Good Luck!

Answer 9

Put drawer locks on. They are available in the baby section of any store. Or you can put a baby gate in your kitchen door way.

Answer 10

Try no naps during they day, and a later bedtime say 8 or 9 (aside from all the child-proofing ideas given).