# Baby and toddler rules **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-and-toddler-rules/77754 "2001-08-23T17:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-and-toddler-rules/77754/41 "2001-08-26T01:44:53Z")
66d. Toddlers instictively know when you are exhausted or hungover, and decide that is they day they want to get up EARLY. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-and-toddler-rules/77754/42 "2001-08-26T02:27:06Z")
Rule #69. Toddlers have magic arms. It doesn’t matter how far back from the edge you put something: If a toddler can _see_ something, the toddler will _have_ it. Rule #70. Toddlers make free-climbers look like wimps. If it can be climbed, the toddler will climb it. If it can’t be climbed, the toddler will climb it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_The\_Younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paul\_The\_Younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_The_Younger)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-and-toddler-rules/77754/43 "2001-08-27T13:45:26Z")
70a. The ability of the toddler to climb the item will be directly proportional to the amount of money spent on the device to keep the toddler from climbing it. (They learn this from watching the squirrels get at your birdfeeder.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-and-toddler-rules/77754.md?page=2)