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Going up/down slide by themselves?


MommyToAshley wrote: Ashley's favorite thing at the park is the slide. There is a smaller slide (shown in the pictures in the Oct photo assignment) that I let Ashley go up and down by herself. It has about 6 steps, I think. Then, there's the tall slide... it's pretty tall, at least 20+ steps. I noticed that a lot of parents will let kids Ashley's age go up and down this slide by themselves. I always follow Ashley up the ladder if I let her go on this slide, I am paranoid that she is going to slip and fall off the top of the ladder. Do you think I am just being paranoid? I probably won't change my mind, I will probably still follow her up the ladder. But, just wondering if I am the only one that feels this way?

jcc64 replied: I go up the ladder on the big slide too. When I was a little girl, my best friend fell over the side of a slide like that and I can still remember the whole thing. It was cement back then, and I remember how sort of zombie like she looked after, and how freaked out my parents were when we had to return her to her parents.

amynicole21 replied: Nope, not paranoid. If I couldn't hold onto her when standing on the ground, I would follow her up the stairs, too. wink.gif

MomToMany replied: Nope, you are not paranoid. I'd be scared to let Hannah go up/down that slide too. I'm also paranoid about the stairs in the garage that goes to DH's office. They scare me because they are steep, and they are wood, and if she fell, she would land on cement. DH put a door in up there finally so she can be in the office without me freaking everytime she goes near those steps.

The things that make your heart skip a beat ohmy.gif !

Kaitlin'smom replied: on big slides like that I am watching Kaitlin, i dont always follow her up but I am at the bottom of them until she starts to slide the I run to the front...come to think of it I bet I look rather silly laugh.gif

kit_kats_mom replied: Ours has a couple of landings between the steps so I don't worry about her. If it was a straight up ladder, I'd probably stay on the ground with a hand on her butt just to steady her.

MommyToAshley replied:
This slide is straight up, but you wouldn't be able to keep a hand on her after about 1/2 way.... you'd have to go at least half way up the ladder.

Glad to see I am not alone. Since so many people in our neighborhood let their little ones go on the slide alone, I thought I was just odd and over-protective. Glad to know I am in good company. smile.gif

loveydad replied: two stories:

1. I was babysitting my niece and theres a HUGE slide in the park in Payette and she was only like - 2 at the time. Well she climbed up on her own, I couldn't get her to come back, and it was like 30 steps WAY up tere. Then she slid down and it was a windey slide and she started screaming.

2. Cinniman was in the park with me the other day and has now fell off the same HIGH slide twice. The first time she was taken to the er.

No i dont' think your parinoid. If I can't hold onto my kids that are 2 and younger I don't let them slide. I perfer all plastic equiptment with ground up tire instead of sand or dirt. I hate having them go on slides or swing though! its terrifying!

3_call_me_mama replied: Cameron has one of those old playground slides at my moms. The one with like 20+ steps adn is about 10+ feet in the air and is all metal... like our school playground used to have when we were little. Someone gave it to my parents for cameron. When he uses it we just stand in the back of the ladder, and once he sits we go around to the front, he does ready set go and by the time he gets to set we are at the front adn he has no problem going down. He's done really well adn has not had a problem with it.

But anyway , to ansewr your ? , no you are not being paranoid. Every parent is different as are their childrne, so do what you feel comfortable doing smile.gif

coasterqueen replied: We usually don't take Kylie to the park since we have our own little jungle gym outback here, lol, but when we do take her to the park she pretty much stays on the smaller slides. I don't know why but because kids her age I guess are there and not over on the big slide. Our parks around here seperate the big slide from the smaller ones by quite a distance.

If she wanted to go on the big one I'd probably go with her too wink.gif.

DansMom replied: For a straight ladder on a tall slide I follow him up. He's a daredevil and a somewhat reckless climber (although he does have good balance and agility). He gets a grin on his face at the top of the slide and won't sit down when he's up there, so that I'm afraid he'll fall over the side. The type with multiple landings he's just fine on.


ediep replied: Jason climbs up and slides down alone. I usually make sure to be at the bottom to catch him. We have a slide at home, its about 6 steps and she goes up and down about 100 times a day so he is a pro. rolling_smile.gif At the park, there are landings between every few steps, so when he gets to the top of the slide I get to the bottom to meet him after he slides down.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: thumb.gif I think that's just too high for kids Ashley's age to be going on by themselves! I don't think you are paranoid, just cautious and I think it's good to be cautious! At the Playground near out house, I wasn't paying attention to Claudia and she fell off of the little slide. So now I watch her like a hawk!

aspenblue1 replied: I always follow Isabella up the slide. She has flipped off the back of her very little one with like 4 steps before so I am paranoid that she will fall off the back of the bigger one.


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