Is there any way to put a padded covering on the head board?
Good luck. You have quite a little character on your hands!
Zebra - plastic or metal bed, or “platform” bed with no head or foot board. Or ziptie a quilt over the head board and footboard (which I suggested to a sibling transitioning a kid to a bed with some iffy corners on it).
Inkle, I’m getting my hands on a pick up truck one weekend soon, we’re building a very short platform bed for Wolfie (he’s been on a mattress on the floor for a year now), maybe 4 inches off of the ground + standard twin mattress height.
Xylophagia, from the pica link above. Is he yellow and poorly drawn? He might be a pica-chew.
You need to hook your kid up with that little kid in the other thread who feeds the Roomba. Maybe there’s something there that he can gnaw on.
You owe me a new keyboard and all the other nice people in this thread an apology.
Well, I guess a metal crib would (we hope) solve the chewing problem one way or another (perhaps by removing those pesky teeth :eek: ) but another alternative might be to get a big-boy bed (toddler-size or twin) and put a gate over the entrance to his room. One that you can open easily in case of emergency, obviously! That’s what we had to do with Moon Unit, who escaped from her crib before she was 18 moths old.
Yeah, naps and bedtime become problematic for a bit when you first make that switch. I vividly remember her standing at the gate and calling out “Play gyoo” mournfully (her take on “pretty girl”, which was what we called her most of the time).
Following along with the new bed idea… Why bother witha low bed? Just put a mattress on the floor. Nothing to fall off of, no expense, no bed to outgrow. Plus a great place to bounce on the bed.
(We took the easy way out and did co-sleeping. Kids never crawled out of bed because Mom or Dad was always there in the bed with them anyway so there was no point in crawling out. Nap time Mom snuggled and put them to sleep and then read in bed while they slept, napped herself, or just got back out of bed. This became much harder to work at nap time for the third kid (with the older two still at home). But our good friend TV helped with that.)
You should make sure his teeth or gums aren’t hurting him. One of my cats used to chew on cardboard boxes a lot, and the problem turned out to be an inflammation of the gums.
that and all the delicious floorboards he could eat…
is it possible he may have some beaver genes in him?
It’s time to think positive about this.
Think of the potential as a professional wrestler. George “The Animal” Steele, and his penchant for eating the padding in the bucklers, has got nothing on your kid. Instead of Inklekid, he can be know as Inkle “The Omnivore” Kid!
Or he could take up golf & they’ll call him “The Woodchuck” after he eats his way out of a bad lie.
I’m seeing real potential here.
I’d go with the sour apple. Or a 2x4. Whichever is cheaper.
DAMMIT! I WANTED TO DO THAT! 
Well, he did come from a beaver…
Inkleberry, you bad girl!! Has any progress been made, or are you shopping for giant yellow tubes? And if so, are you going to put up the tower? Will you post pictures?
The problem is that he can get to the crib bars. The solution is to make it so he can’t. The cheapest thing I can think of is to get a sheet of pegboard or 1/4" plywood (or 1/2 sheet if your lumber supply will sell it that way). Cut the pegboard to fit exactly over the inside of one of the crib walls. Screw the pegboard securely to the rails. Presto, he can’t get to it.
I’m going to laugh later when the shock of reading that has passed. After he’s potty trained, by the way, don’t let him use too much toilet paper, because you don’t want him trying to “dam the river,” if you catch my drift.
Get him a snake.
We have decided to buy a big-boy twin bed. Now we are shopping. Meanwhile we just try to get to the crib as fast as possible when he wakes up to prevent gnawing. We get in there in under 3 seconds now.
Also, he suddenly started sleeping 12 hrs straight at night, which prevents midnight gnawing.
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Where exactly do you think he will be putting this toilet paper?
In my house, we pee in the potty, not in our mommies. If your mileage varies, I do not want to know.
Huh? Plug the toilet, you know, like a dam? Since beavers dam things. I don’t know what you’re thinking of, but it doesn’t sound hygenic at all.