Guess what my daughter learned...

Upstatemax
Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
edited April 2012 in The Clubhouse
She learned that if she goes up to Daddy's APC H-15 and presses the center button, it will shut down the whole HT system... :frown:

She now thinks it's a game.

I'm tempted to move the APC till she gets older (she is almost 17months old now), but I know that will not teach anything about how to respect what we tell her. So I think it's just going to be a PIA till we get on the same page. That could be awhile, she is as stubborn as I am. :redface:
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited April 2012
    Right there with you on this one... Our 18 month old turns on the receiver, then off, back on, etc etc. Tried covering it with something to block the buttons, figured out how to move that. Rather then make it a bigger game, we just keep an eye on him around it.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited April 2012
    As soon as she could move she made a B-Line for the receiver... She LOVED the spinny knobs. That went on for about 2 months and she has since ignored the HT system.

    But when she pressed that button on the H-15, her face lit up like an X-Mass tree...
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2012
    I remember years ago a buddy of mines' daughter (2 at the time) smeared banana into all the recessed switches on his Yamaha gear. He spent hours with a toothpick cleaning the equipment..LOL
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  • PreCd
    PreCd Posts: 786
    edited April 2012
    Mine emptied a whole bottle of baby powder into my parent's HT system when she was little.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,770
    edited April 2012
    It usually takes me weeks of intensive study to figure out how to do that with a modern HT system. Just sayin'.
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  • tommyt21
    tommyt21 Posts: 685
    edited April 2012
    Upstatemax wrote: »
    She learned that if she goes up to Daddy's APC H-15 and presses the center button, it will shut down the whole HT system... :frown:

    She now thinks it's a game.

    I'm tempted to move the APC till she gets older (she is almost 17months old now), but I know that will not teach anything about how to respect what we tell her. So I think it's just going to be a PIA till we get on the same page. That could be awhile, she is as stubborn as I am. :redface:

    With you also my 15 month old just loves the blue power light on my reciever.
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  • sophiewilcoxx
    sophiewilcoxx Posts: 2
    edited April 2012
    My daughter does that a lot too! She's very curious about her surroundings. I think I'm gonna have to baby-proof around the house to avoid accidents. :/
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,745
    edited April 2012
    My equipment has always been situated on a shelves above my TV ;) At least 5' out of the kids' reach. The only issue I've had with my kids is they like to press the bright blue button on the computer tower which puts it into sleep mode! At 3 and 5, they are finally over that.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited April 2012
    Lol, now I know why people list audio stuff pointing out its from a pet and child free home...
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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited April 2012
    Upstatemax wrote: »
    Lol, now I know why people list audio stuff pointing out its from a pet and child free home...

    Kind of like an adult owned sports car that has never been hot rodded or raced. Yet the tires look like a burn out was done on a cheese grader.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited April 2012
    lol. Keep your speaker grilles on. If there's anything they enjoy more than turning knobs and switches, it's poking the dust caps on speakers.
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  • smglbrth
    smglbrth Posts: 1,469
    edited April 2012
    When all my kids were little they started doing those things. Discipline worked, but so did moving all the equipment up and out of reach when I wasn't home. Well, the main reason for moving it "up" was for my wife's friends kids, that was a different story...
    Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited April 2012
    organ wrote: »
    lol. Keep your speaker grilles on. If there's anything they enjoy more than turning knobs and switches, it's poking the dust caps on speakers.

    I only take them off to clean the speakers and try to make sure to do that when my wife takes her out of the house. She came home once while they were still off, sure enough she was going straight for the woofers...
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited April 2012
    organ wrote: »
    lol. Keep your speaker grilles on. If there's anything they enjoy more than turning knobs and switches, it's poking the dust caps on speakers.

    My oldest has gotten both the dust caps/whizzers on my Fonkens. Even better, the drivers are discontinued. :sad:
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited April 2012
    Many moons ago, my daughter thought to stick her PB&J sammy into the VHS player. No comming back from that one.

    Since then, no kid, be it mine,grandkids, others kids, are allowed to even touch the remote let alone the gear. It's ok to tell a kid what they can't touch.

    Just last week, my 2.5 year old grandson picked up a new 800 buck camcorder and started flinging it around. The wife caught him, took it away and stearnly told him not to touch. The other women present thought the wife was too hard on the kid. She told them in a polite way, that unless they intended to cough up 800 bucks when the camcorder gets broke, to stfu. Thats my girl.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2012
    It's been a while since my daughter has been that young. I remember keeping track of her height (growth) when she passed by my front speakers in the living room.

    She was pretty well behaved as a toddler though. The only incident I can remember, and it was not a bad one, but rather an "astonishing" one; was when she got a hold of one of my cassette tapes and took two of her crayons, inserted one each into the holes in the cassette and started singing "Happy Birthday" as if the tape was a Birthday cake with two candles in it.

    What was astonishing was that she was only 18 months at the time! So look out for the "good" surprises as well!

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,008
    edited April 2012
    My little guy will be 11 months this week, all my gear is in a cabinet with two glass doors. You can bet that I will buy something so he cannot get in there. The only thing left out will the dvdp, the PS3 and the speakers. Cross my fingers...
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  • sophiewilcoxx
    sophiewilcoxx Posts: 2
    edited April 2012
    smglbrth wrote: »
    When all my kids were little they started doing those things. Discipline worked, but so did moving all the equipment up and out of reach when I wasn't home. Well, the main reason for moving it "up" was for my wife's friends kids, that was a different story...
    my husband also doesn't want other "kids" to touch or play with our system, but he didn't move it "up". he's always watching them whenever they're around acting to play with them but in reality he's guarding them like a guard dog to keep them out of reach. though i think it's kind of cute. (^^,)
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited April 2012
    Y'all need a paintball marker. They'll stop doing that stuff! :twisted:



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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2012
    My grandkids have been less of a challenge, as their parents are ACTIVELY engaged at all times, and know that if Grandpa's stereo gets messed up, that's money I have to take out of the inheritance fund...LOL
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited April 2012
    I have two boys, one 22 months and one 3 months. I recently bought some decent quality audio racks with glass doors so currently everything besides the cable box is out of reach. So far, so good. My main problem, however, is that he likes going behind my LSi15's and messing with the speaker cables (bi-wire/spades). I have em tightened up pretty good, but he still gets them sometimes.

    Side note...At my old apartment the cat kept jumping on the tv stand and blocking the view. I bought a nerf gun that I kept by the couch and whenever he would jump up there I would start firing nerf "bullets" at him. It was more funny than effective...
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited April 2012
    hochpt21 wrote: »
    I have two boys, one 22 months and one 3 months. I recently bought some decent quality audio racks with glass doors so currently everything besides the cable box is out of reach. So far, so good. My main problem, however, is that he likes going behind my LSi15's and messing with the speaker cables (bi-wire/spades). I have em tightened up pretty good, but he still gets them sometimes.

    Side note...At my old apartment the cat kept jumping on the tv stand and blocking the view. I bought a nerf gun that I kept by the couch and whenever he would jump up there I would start firing nerf "bullets" at him. It was more funny than effective...

    Uh oh, just wait until they figure out the glass doors :eek: My soon-to-be two year old daughter did and I had to take everything out of the thing.

    I have another girl on the way, I'm now severely outnumbered!
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited April 2012
    Willow wrote: »
    My little guy will be 11 months this week, all my gear is in a cabinet with two glass doors. You can bet that I will buy something so he cannot get in there. The only thing left out will the dvdp, the PS3 and the speakers. Cross my fingers...

    My daughter will turn on the PS3 and start saying "Steven"...

    She wants me to turn on the "colbert report". She loves that show.
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