Triplescoop asked:
Today we use crib tents. What were some of the old practices (safe or not) that older generations used?
Today we use crib tents. What were some of the old practices (safe or not) that older generations used?
Crib Tent helps prevent Child from Climbing out the crib
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A WILLOW BRANCH BEATING.. OR ROPE?
They just lowered the mattress so the baby couldn’t climb out. Once the mattress was as low as it could be…and the baby could STILL climb…it was time for a big kid bed.
They used tied down harnesses that strapped the kids to the bed…. cruel and unusual punishment I say.
I don’t know.
I’m guessing they didn’t. I wouldn’t, either. When (or even before) my kids were able to climb out of the crib, it was time for a twin bed with rails. And a baby gate across the bedroom door.
When babies were old enough to climb out of their cribs they graduated to a youth bed or a single bed with a slide under the mattress rail and a foot stool.
I didn’t use a tent, we just got him a baby gate for his door and a toddler bed when he started getting out of the crib.
But I guess that doesn’t qualify, ours is 4 years old.
My mom just put us into twin beds when we climbed out of cribs, and whoopin’s to make us stay in there.
Often in past years children slept with their parents or in home made beds on the floor next to the parents beds. I’m sure that a lot of children fell out of their cribs before it was improved.
Well, if a child is strong enough to get out of the crib they should have a “big kid” bed. End of story…that is the only REAL safe way.
my first child was born before crib tents and when he was able to climb out when the mattress was on the lowest setting.. we got him a toddler bed and installed a baby gate.
Actually, on both my husbands side of the family and mine, no one used cribs in the generations before us. The babies slept with the parents (my parents slept with their parents) until they were old enough to be in a low bed (usually by one year). My husband’s family, the younger ones slept with their siblings until they desired a bed of their own.
We don’t use crib tents ourselves, we usually start with a toddler bed at one year old.
Lisa E is the closest of the answers so far. Even so, I was an escape artist, and I’ll bet a lot of my fellow Boomers were, too. I guess it’s been that way since the Year Dot.