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My kids have shared a room since my son was 9mths old and it has been great, my daughter is 3. They love having each other so close by. We do have them nap in separate rooms as that means both get the amount of daytime sleep that they need. My youngest goes to bed first and is usually asleep by the time his sister jumps into bed half an hour later. They have never really disturbed each other over night if one cries which is great. Faq was worried about the potential for chaos. Well it will happen, occasionally, and when it does you will laugh so hard at what they have gotten up to and these will be memories you will have forever. We once found both kids in the crib jumping for their lives and laughing so hard. That is priceless!

Great topic, while I am not big into baby proofing at home I do think that it does make travelling with kids more stressful when your family does not have the right environment for you. It has never been the obvious baby proofing issues for me at my in-laws but other issues such as them carrying around their morning medications and dropping them all over the place, their poor vision means they can't find them and never pick them up. This also means dropped sewing pins and other unsafe items. I have to do a full sweep of the floor of their 6 bedroom home within minutes of arriving. The key is vigilance, I have to keep an eye on them at all times.

I use an old sheet put down under the high chair in the danger zone. After the meal I shake it out the window and when it gets really bad I chuck it in the wash. This works the best for us and is the cheapest and easiest to keep clean.

Gosh, so so mean. Morgan must be devastated by these comments, I would be. Right or wrong do you all think it is our place to anonymously abuse someone. Would you speak this way to your friends or family face on. I am sure you would not, think before you write!

I am so glad that Greg responded to this. Honestly you people can be so mean. You all need to chill out and take a look at yourselves. I am sure you will all find issues with your own parenting decisions that need to be worked on before you hand out insults to other parents. That's just my two bobs worth!

I also feel that babyproofing on the most part is unnecessary. We have a 22mth old and have not one babyproofing gadget in our home. We close the bathroom doors, keep the chemicals up high and let her explore all the cupboards. They need to understand the things that you don't want them to touch by reinforcing "no". You need to remember that not everyone's house you will be in will be babyproofed so they need to learn these boundaries.