The first irony is that supervising a small child at the top of the stairs AND trying to open the gate is definitely more dangerous than just supervising the child.
Secondly, there's cupboard locks. Before the kids arrived, we spent hours fitting safety gates and child locks on all our cupboards and kitchen drawers. The cutlery drawer is particularly difficult to open because the child safety catch is really stiff. Andy and I usually have to find a screwdriver or a piece of cutlery in order to open it.
The other day, A demonstrated and explained, in a helpful sort of tone, how to open the cutlery drawer. "You just have to press this down like this and it opens!" His fingers are small enough to do the job without the aid of spoon handle or screwdriver. Somewhat amused, I asked him to show Andy what he'd shown me. "You just do it like this," he said, "and I can open these too" he continued proudly, opening the cupboards with child locks.
Oh well....
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