Comments on: Monster-proofing

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:35:20 +0000

Very cool. Except…our baby is obsessed with opening velcro. Well, the other things rock, anyway.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:59:44 +0000

You are geniuses! Freakin’ geniuses!
My 3-year-old is mostly past the stage where this stuff is needed, but what I would have done for this info when she was plundering the home office and I was prying binder clips from her tiny mouth.

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:56:10 +0000

Thanks, Pawel. We typically do very little post-processing on our pictures, other than cropping or adjusting brightness/contrast. Generally what you’re seeing are the pictures exactly as they come out of the camera.

By: Pawel

Pawel — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:41:17 +0000

I have a 5yr old at home and, I must admit, I would have used some of the solutions you invented back in the day. Indeed, the baby proofing thingies you can buy at Kids’R'Us or elsewhere are quite crappy and (surprise, surprise) $$$.

Lovely pictures! How do you post process them? I’ve used PS as long as I remember but never got the lovely sharpening you have on most of yours. Mine was always too weak or too strong.

Cheers,
Pawel

By: Rip

Rip — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:20:43 +0000

So Gaoo, how about collarbones? ;-)

By: gaoo

gaoo — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:52:01 +0000

I seem to remember tennis balls stuffed onto the prongs at the end of the old cast iron radiators in Pittsburgh. I also remember a neighbor child badly breaking a leg just by falling off the bed. And don’t get me started on collarbones.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:10:20 +0000

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Stole that wonderful pic!!
Kris

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:55:14 +0000

Love this posting! My little guy is just starting to do quite the clip crawling backwards so my monster-proofing efforts need to be stepped up this weekend! And if I need wine corks, well, there’s only one way to get those…

Any other tips I need???
Thxxxxxx!!!
Kris

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:58:02 +0000

Your solutions are quite elegant in their low-techiness. My parents had to do similar thing when I was little but this was back in the early 1970s so the solutions involved less technology and more bulk. One of the bedroom sets had these sort of rhino horn thingies on the posts that were perfect for perforating and impaling the human torso, so those were wrapped in paper towels (I believe) and then super-wrapped with packing tape. Attractive? No. Effective? You betcha.

Also, I think the leatherman might be the greatest invention ever.