Certain Disaster Barely Avoided!!!

[Blu-Benny]

so i come home from work and my wife tells me my 4 year old daughter knocked the glass shelf on my tv stand off of it's bracket!!!

(the stand is in my gallery)

luckily only the front fell off somehow and the back stayed up on it's bracket....the sticky "feet" on the bottom of my ps3 held it in place and it never fell on the floor!!!

i've caught my daughter w/her feet on that stand so many times and she has been yelled @ and punished every time!!!

anyone else's kids do this to their equipment???

[Clark Kent]

You have to learn to kidproof your setup. Children are curious about the world and like exploring their environment.

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

You have to learn to kidproof your setup. Children are curious about the world and like exploring their environment.

not so much about being curious as it is she doesn't listen.

she lays on the floor and puts her feet on the glass shelf.

i plan on taking serious measures when i actually have equipment that is worth something.

[un4gvn94538]

if you were that worried about it, then it is worth something.

my equipment is inside an entertainment center. i used child proof cabinet latches on the inside of the cabinet doors on both sides. before that i had an audio stand. i used super gates to surround the equipment. as far as the tv, i was pretty firm with them when they started to walk. they learned very early not to touch anything. now theyre 4 and 5 (going on 6) and not a single scratch on the tv . im confident now when i upgrade the tv, it will survive

[Blu-Benny]

it's not so much being worried about it, it's the idea of having to drop $300 when my daugher knows better. normally the kids are really good about being around the equip. my daughter even puts in movies and takes them out herself and can control the playback functions.

the tv isn't a problem....just some smudges from my son's sticky fingers once in a while.

my complete setup will be in the basement when that time comes.

not a whole lot of ways to protect the stand that i currently have, it's an open design w/1 shelf and that's it.

don't really have the room for anything bigger w/the size of our living room.

[DJ Manyak]

the kids know if they touch daddy's toys i am beating that ass

[Meeklo]

Don't have kids?

Bad economy.....high unemployment rates,,,,Avatar being the highest grossing movie ever....poor health care....who'd want to bring a kid into this world and subject them to all this pain?

[JJ]

Kids? What are kids?

[metalgeargreed]

i think kids are what Hobbits evolved into.

[Rob71]

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Either of these would alleviate the problem.

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Or anyone who grew up in the 70's can attest to these. Very succesfull at behavior modification.

[Nielsb90]

Originally Posted by Meeklo

Don't have kids?

Bad economy.....high unemployment rates,,,,Avatar being the highest grossing movie ever....poor health care....who'd want to bring a kid into this world and subject them to all this pain?

Health Care? - move to Scandinavia! Avatar? - sorry! Same sh** here

[brettallica]

I just looked at your stand, and now have an understanding of your setup. The good thing is your television isn't in danger from the shelf falling down. You're also fortunate that the shelf didn't break and damage your gear/daughter. There's a reason my TV is so high — it's because I don't want my kids near it. They have full access to the other gear and equipment, but they now know how to use it, and they mind me when I tell them not to do something. On Christmas day, my younger son was climbing on the entertainment center and kicked over my Polk tower (pictures of my Polk setup aren't in my gallery yet, even though I've had them for six or seven months already), and due to the short length of the banana plugs, it made the tower kind of "spin" before it disengaged them from the wall. Then, it continued its spin and smacked the corner of the wall. Now I have a nice little ding in the back of one of my towers. Fortunately no delamination occurred or serious dents happened, but I was internally furious. It's hard to yell at kids on Christmas.

[Moefiz]

Nothing you can do bout that Benny...kids love to touch Daddy's stuff....

Only thing I would recommend is the official time out...

[jono_0101]

Originally Posted by Meeklo

Don't have kids?

Bad economy.....high unemployment rates,,,,Avatar being the highest grossing movie ever....poor health care....who'd want to bring a kid into this world and subject them to all this pain?

hey now, it could win best picture AGAIN, how many movies can you say that about??? hmmmmm???

[Fors*]

I have disciplined my daughter when I caught her touching the TV screen with her grubby little hands (I could see hand marks on it, but never actually saw her doing it.) Well, all it took was catching her in the act, finally! She was so horrified by how loud I raised my voice (I literally surprised her when I caught her doing it) that she busted up crying and ran to her room. She stayed there the rest of the night, but has never touched the TV or anything around it again. Sometimes putting the fear of God into them is all that is needed.

Now my 4 year old daughter polices up the area in front of my TV stand, and when we have family or friends over, she will make sure no kids go within 1-2 feet of the entire area without my OK first. If a ball rolls over to it, she will look back to me or yell for me to get the "OK" first. I even heard her tell my brother to not get too close to the TV during x-mas. She also told him not to put his drink on my speaker and subs too.

We now have an "understanding" and she respects the entire HT. The fear of God can do wonderful things.

[MaCruz]

Where's that pic where a member posted a small gate around their entertainment center so their children don't come near.

[SellmeyourDVD]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

so i come home from work and my wife tells me my 4 year old daughter knocked the glass shelf on my tv stand off of it's bracket!!!

(the stand is in my gallery)

luckily only the front fell off somehow and the back stayed up on it's bracket....the sticky "feet" on the bottom of my ps3 held it in place and it never fell on the floor!!!

i've caught my daughter w/her feet on that stand so many times and she has been yelled @ and punished every time!!!

anyone else's kids do this to their equipment???

I feel fortunate, my three year old has NEVER touched any of my equipment. I don't child proof anything, and if she wants to ever watch a movie, she asks me every time.

There was one day where I did catch her with some of my DVD's. I raised my voice pretty good and that got her attention BIG TIME. After that happened, I just gave her a few blank DVD's and said "these are yours! Now please don't touch daddy's!" Worked like a charm

[SellmeyourDVD]

Originally Posted by MaCruz

Where's that pic where a member posted a small gate around their entertainment center so their children don't come near.

I've seen that one to!!!! It makes me laugh every time.

[Blu_Ray_UK2007]

Caught my son trying to sleep on my tv cabinet yesterday.. got him off quick enough lol.

Rarely happens as I have reminded him to stay away ever since he was crawling!

[Nielsb90]

Originally Posted by Blu_Ray_UK2007

Caught my son trying to sleep on my tv cabinet yesterday.. got him off quick enough lol.

Rarely happens as I have reminded him to stay away ever since he was crawling!

Looked at your setup! Sweet collection and pretty cool of you to buy your son a BD player The Chelsea pillow however lol