Coffee tables - when your children were younger

moped wrote: In the last few days Jack has gotten hurt a lot of the coffee tables - I am hoping you can help me talk my husband into moving hte coffee tables for a while - or until Jack is not so accident prone.

kit_kats_mom replied: i put my metal & glass tables in storage & bought a cheap wooden one with rounded corners & no sharp edges. I'll bring my good ones out again one day

Maddie&EthansMom replied: Our coffee table is a huge padded ottoman.

My2Beauties replied: No we didn't! She learned to maneuver around it and has never hurt herself on it knock on wood! our livingroom is pretty big though so she has plenty of room to run around.

Kaitlin'smom replied: dont have one.....sorry I am no help

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: I'll answer...we actually just bought a coffee table for the first time (just a cheap wood one) which is probably a stupid stupid idea. We've always just used oversized ottomans with a tray on top, but I was so sick of that look and wanted something for company.

They have those padded rail guard things you put around coffee tables so that kids don't bump their head. I figure life is full of bumps and bruises...well maybe not cuts...and I can't protect Wil from everything. We'll see if I feel differently when Wil is pulling himself up and walking. Hope Jack is feeling better!!

BTW, can you have a room for the coffee table that is considered an off limits room for Jack?? Not to restrict him, but my sister has a den for the kids to play in and a fancier living room for guests. The kids can go in the fancy room, but they have to be careful there. No drinks or food, no toys. They seem to stick to the den because that's where the TV and (no coffee table) are.

A&A'smommy replied: when she first started walking yes because what we had wasn't stable enough but when we moved here we got (our landlords furniture) a better one and we didn't put it up until we got a dog but that was because she has no room to walk with it there she was huge!

mom21kid2dogs replied: I voted no but only because I only have one and it is an oval with no corners. Otherwise, they'd be in the basement.

jdkjd replied: Ours has been in our bedroom since Bailey was pulling up. Just too dangerous. A visiting child cut his ear when he fell and hit it on the corner (before Bailey was moving around) so I decided it wasn't worth the worry.

It's a great laundry area in our bedroom though.

Celestrina replied: No, we didn't. We have a wooden one with rounded corners. No matter what, Ben would find something to fall on.

Jamison'smama replied: We moved it-- less for injury and more for floor space reasons. Jamison needed lots of space to play and crawl so we moved it for now.

CCTandME replied: No! Ours is so low to the ground. Teagan can sit on it and her feet touch the ground.

gr33n3y3z replied: never had a problem with our kids

He will figure it out to stay away from those

mammag replied: Yes, I took mine out....they started walking early and were so tiny that they constantly knocked their jaws on them. I like the idea of a big ottoman as Keegan starts walking.

Mylilprincesses replied: We left the ones in our living room and front room cause Olivia's not really allowed to play in those two rooms anyway. However for the den and family room ones, we got those padded liner things that go all the way around. Our family room table is glass so the liner covers the entire length of the edges but the den one is just kind of a black wooden contraption of sorts that's not too sharp-edged so we just put the end wedges on the four corners of it.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: We took our out in this house...it had nothing to do with the kids geting hurt on it , it was more because of all the big toys they didn't have enough room to play. I plan on spending some quality time with the coffee table in the morning so I can refinish it then bring it back upstairs (we moved a lot of the toys to the basement playroom)

coasterqueen replied: Nope, didn't move ours and we have two of them. She did get a few bruises from falling on them, but she quickly learned. IMO she could have gotten bruises from just about anything in this house and I wasn't going to move all the furniture out .

Ours are wooden with round corners...but I'm sure they'd still pretty much hurt.

Just think if Jack wasn't falling on that, he WILL fall on many other things.

Gammy2 replied: i voted yes because when my son was 15 months old he tripped and fell into the coffee table and had to get 4 stiches. My granddaughter is 13 months old and we removed ours AGAIN for the simple reason we don't want her to fall and get hurt.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I voted no, because our coffee table is how the kids learned to get up in the first place.... it was oval mahogany wood.

We just got noew ones about 2 months ago, from ikea - square, with a glass top.

No injuries except for my shin.

MommyToAshley replied: Yes, I moved our tables out of the living room and still haven't moved them back. It leaves more room for Ashley to play and one less thing for her to get hurt on.

paradisemommy replied: never had em..much safer that way..taven had a hard enough time with our dining room table - he was always hitting his head on the corner..ugh..

mom2lilnick replied: I voted yes, because my kids have gotten hurt on them. Not just falling into them, but climbing on them, jumping on them (it is glass centered), jumping off them. Plus it does leave more room to play and one less surface to collect junk!