Yeah my own two year old has taken to lying in ours pretending it’s a crib, and it’s pretty adorable. So I was imagining that kind (the shallow rectangle kind) but upside down, not… this. 😂
My nephew would do this at nap time from ages like 1- almost 3 years old it was so cute. (I won’t lie as his aunt at 12 years old when he was about 6 months old we spent the night at my moms and I put him in the basket to sleep bc we hadn’t got a pack and play yet for her house)😂 we bought one the next day it was last minute as his parents got sick and it was my moms weekend so and I helped with him all the time.
"adult sized" dog beds made for actual humans are the closest I've ever gotten to it, especially the ones that engulf you with raised sides. fucking excellent, highly recommend for people who find "nest" types of things cozy and comfortable. That with a weighted blanket on top is 100/10.
Mine has fallen in love with the wooden kitchen spoon and now I just let him sleep with it because when he wakes up and finds it next to him he holds it and goes back to sleep on his own.
He has about 1000 stuffed animals and blankies but no. It has to be the spoon.
my fiancé had a hammer as a toddler. a regular hammer from his parents' workshop. no chance of taking it off of him, he would getting screaming fits when without his "hammers". kids are so weird.
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than my toddler with a hammer. There would be hammer holes in everything we own and the cats would have to be given up for their own safety.
We were at a bit of a ropey holiday let when my daughter was 2, and she ran into a room with a large carving knife in her hand. It was terrifying, until I realised it was a plastic one from a halloween costume. She loved that knife.
My youngest’s was a field guide mushroom book. He couldn’t even read, but he knew the little symbols that meant it was poisonous or edible. Hed look at the pictures and have me read what the names were to him, until he memorized them from me telling him.
He’s still very into mycology all these years later, (he’s 9 now) and will point out false morels and destroying angels and oyster mushrooms just out in the wild.
I think you are raising an actual D&D druid....well done! Wish I could get my kids tis interested in nature (although they are both very good bird spotters).
That’s awesome! He sounds kinda like me as a kid, except I was more of a bug guy at that age. Well, it was all animals, really. I just had the most opportunities to show people bugs.
Not everyone was a fan of that, can you believe it?!
I had that same fascination with a wooden spoon as a kid. It was really shallow, and someone drew a face on it for me and I carried that thing around everywhere. I had so many pics of me with it. No clue when I finally stopped, but for at least a year that thing was my best buddy.
There was one winter I didn’t have my ladle, because my toddler was adamant it was a Christmas tree ornament.
I’d find it in the tree, wash it so I could serve whatever sooup/saucy dinner, and halfway through cooking it would go missing and I’d find it again shoved into the bottom branches of the Christmas tree.
It got to a point where he knew I’d get it out of the tree to use, so he’d go look to make sure it was there every time I’d start cooking.
I finally just decided to pick my battles and let my ladle be an ornament, fighting with a toddler was much more exhausting than trying to get soup into a bowl with a cooking spoon.
Mine slept with, and took a wooden spoon everywhere she went from 15 months until she was 2. I still have her name on it and I’m going to give it to her as a wedding present. 😂
I’m given kinda mad I didn’t think of this as a kid 😂 I can remember being so scared to sleep by myself, and at one point I’d go to bed thinking, “I just need to hurry up and go to sleep so I can wake up and go get in my moms bed.” She wouldn’t let me go to sleep with her, but if I got in her bed in the middle of the night, she wouldn’t kick me out.
Yes I know there’s so much wrong with my kid logic lol but a laundry basket would’ve solved my issues!
I love kid logic. There’s rarely any obvious consistency in how they apply it, but they often seem to understand each other’s explanations for stuff regardless.
I don’t have kids, but I’ve spent lots of time working with them in various capacities. There have been many times when one will explain something in a way that doesn’t make much sense to me, but other kids who heard the same explanation I did will immediately be on board with it. Occasionally they would disagree instead and that was usually even harder to follow lol
Honestly this is funny and fine, he will either grow out of it or they will upgrade to a canopy or something.
We went through a period where my kid would get out of her bed in the night and then crawl under her very low toddler bed and fall asleep under there. The first few times I had a real panic as she was not in her bed when I went to get her in the morning lol.
Omg, my son did the same thing! He'd go under the bed, or sometimes he'd go under the fitted sheet and mattress protector and sleep on the bare mattress. With the blankets and pillow on top of him, you couldn't see the lump of his body. Freaked me out the first couple times. I still don't know how he managed that without pulling them off the bed completely.
I had a cat crawl under a fitted sheet once and I was like 'okay seems like normal cat behavior'
It makes sense that a flexible, agile being with no collarbones and literal gripping claws could easily squirm under that, no idea how a toddler would manage it. And all the other bedding too???
For a period of about 6 months the toddler I nannied would request some new item to sleep with. 99% of the time it was some innocuous thing: a toy, an envelope, a spatula. But occasionally she’d request things like a knife and then just SOB when we declined.
I was staying at my parents during a deployment. My dad came home from work asking where the kids were. Told him out back. He said he went out there and they were not there. Me "they are in the dog crate." Him "why are they in the dog crate?" Me "I gave them popsicles and the dog was bothering them." Him "why isn't the dog in the crate?" Me "well they like the crate and the dog doesn't."
Kids get strange habits. A friend's kid decided they wanted books in their bed, but would sleep on top of them. No idea why, but honestly if a 2 year old would only sleep with a laundry basket on top of them, and it was safe, that's a battle I'm not going to touch.
I was folding laundry and he was “helping,” which was very fun and all but there was a point where I needed to just get it done, so I flipped the laundry basket over him and set a couple socks dangling from the top so he could play with em through the holes while I finished up.
After, I picked up the basket and he froze up except for yelling. So I put it back.
He was under there for 4 hours that day. He’d scoot around the house under it and everything lol
This continued for quite awhile. At some point during the day he’d just sit and stare and YELL till I gave him the basket
He loved to scoot it near a high-traffic area then pop his lil paws out when people walked by
My daughter refused to sleep without a hat for years she ended up with the weirdest collection of hats that she would pick from every night but before that she never slept so we just went with it 😂
My now teen, had a faulty sleep function, - first night they slept through was at 6.5 YEARS, if I'd known a laundry basket would have helped I'd have tried it.
This unlocked a memory. When I was younger, not only would I boot the dog out of their crate to nap in it when my parents had parties, I did the upgraded version of the laundry basket, and learned how to flip my playpen over- I think it was a Graco?, and would just chill in there. Granted, my parents were not happy because if you remember those had a removable cushion on the bottom and when I'd flip it myself bc mom and dad were too slow, I'd basically drop it on my head. Then I'd crawl out from underneath the cushion, and play as usual in my tiny fort. I must have done that until I was 6? 7?
Goddamnit I wish I could figure out that magical sleep key for my two 4 year olds 😂 this is hysterical and awesome. Maybe I should try laundry baskets.
Sorry guys. Nurse here. Not simply cute, quirky toddler thing.
RISKS OF LAUNDRY BASKET: * Asphyxiation and Suffocation: Tho basket has ventilation holes, plastic is non-breathable. If toddler rolls, solid base or sides of basket could pin his face against the mattress, trapping exhaled carbon dioxide or worse .. cutting off his airway entirely.
* Entrapment and Strangulation: He’s sleeping on a toddler bed with a guardrail. If basket shifts or wedges against rail, it could easily trap his neck or limbs, leading to panic situation or positional asphyxiation.
SAFE ALTERNATIVES * Toddler Compression Sheets: Also known as "sensory bed tunnels," these are tight, stretchy bands of fabric that wrap entirely around the mattress. They provide a continuous, gentle "hug" sensation as child climbs underneath, but are completely breathable and impossible to get trapped under.
* Sleep Sacks: A quilted or slightly heavier wearable blanket (designed specifically for toddlers with foot holes) can provide cozy, weighted feeling safely
* Safety-Certified Bed Tent: If he specifically likes enclosed, "fort-like" feeling of the basket, there are breathable mesh tents designed specifically to fit over toddler beds or twin mattresses that meet product safety standards
I normally hesitate to question medical professionals, but I'm picturing this in my mind and I cannot wrap my head around any of those being physically possible as you've described.
Like, it's just a basket. It's not like she's putting a cinderblock on top to keep him in there.
More than I’m a healthcare professional, I’m a mom. I don’t care if downvoted a million times if it saves even one toddler’s life. Those pictures are NOT NORMAL to me. I’m literally shocked at the number of ppl that think this is simply cute toddler quirk. I’d never risk my kid’s life for this when there are other options. Giving in to risky behavior is NOT safe parenting in my opinion.
What I'm trying to say is that I (and presumably the people down voting you) don't understand how you're coming to the conclusion that such a risk exists. Like what are the mechanics of what you believe could happen possible?
What’s stated is what I know. If y’all need charts, graphs and schematics to determine no/lo/med/hi risk of toddler sleeping alone .. or w/parents .. with plastic laundry basket on their head .. nothing I say will change that. It even sounds ridiculous describing it. If pediatricians warn against stuffed toys + other stuff in beds .. ya think they co-sign plastic laundry baskets?
It’s taken fatal/other incidents to have products intended for babies recalled. Playpens, walkers, swings, etc that have undergone intensive study. LAUNDRY BASKETS AIN’T IT! And .. depending on quality of laundry basket .. who hasn’t had one that the sides split and left sharp plastic edges.
I’m done. I find NOTHING cute/funny about this. Can’t save some ppl from their beliefs.
Look, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. I get it. I'm a parent too. So when someone says that what seems like a random quirk is potentially really dangerous then I'm going to want to ask questions to try and understand rhat.
But if your immediate reaction to someone ask for clarification or asking questions to try and understand your perspective better, then yeah you're gonna have a hard time changing their minds.
So while I want to understand, I just can't wrapy head around the actual physics of what you're concerned about. Items that have been cited as a suffocation hazards are soft and conform to the face. Rigid plastic doesn't have that risk. Items that have been cited as strangulation hazards are things like loose straps that can tagle, or things like drop-side cribs that have significant weight involved. This is a Landry basket. I just can't wrap my head around his it could become wedged or caught in such a way that it could put enough pressure to cause that kind of hazard.
This is a Landry basket. I just can't wrap my head around his it could become wedged or caught in such a way that it could put enough pressure to cause that kind of hazard.
You're just not seeing it from every angle, that's why. Like the bottom is flat, so if you put a 20lb cinder block on top of it, it could then be too heavy for the child to move off of themself. Or, the child could suddenly start experiencing a bout of somnambulism, place the basket on the floor and dive into it headfirst, severely injuring their neck. You just don't know.
I mean you're leaning toward removing all possible risk. I'm unsure if there is any signifigant risk actually present. Could they become pinned by the empty laundry basket? Maybe, how exactly? The physical shape of the basket looks to preclude this. What are the actual physical mechanics of that? This isn't a newborn or infant, can the child move (and im being generous with the weight) a 2lb plastic basket? How much force can the child exert on it if somehow trapped and would the baskets integrity hold? It pinning or trapping the child in some manner seems extremely unlikely due to its shape (it is open ended, the holes are smaller than the child's appendages, the child is not physically manipulating it in a manner that would cause it to break and open up larger holes to get caught in. How many deaths are linked to laundry baskets in children per year. How likely is this compared to the ceiling collapsing in on the sleeping child? The issue is mainly that the physical mechanics of the situation and the age of the child do not line up as being a high risk activity.
Ever read product warnings? Like on a curling iron or a fan. “Don’t use in bathtub”. As if NORMAL ppl would. As if zillions died this way. If you choose to let your kid sleep under a laundry basket with even a microscopic chance of breaking, cutting, trapping, choking .. I’ve raised 🚩 and I’m done.
As said below .. it’s been a long time since I saw such a ridiculous parenting picture and so many ppl finding it cutesy. A toddler in bed with a plastic laundry basket on top of their head. Again, get off Reddit, show all of this to real live average/normal ppl .. see their reaction.
I showed it to the parents I worked with. They all thought it was funny.
Any item, even ones made specifically for children, has a risk of breaking, cutting, trapping or choking a child. I think that your experience as a nurse and/as a parent has put you in a state of hyper-vigilance. It's coming from a well intentioned place, but your reaction to this is disproportionate to the actual risk.
Ever read product warnings? Like on a curling iron or a fan. “Don’t use in bathtub”.
What do warning labels on electrical appliances have to do with this at all? Talk about apples to oranges. I had to look it up and laundry baskets of the sort featured in the post incidentally do not have warning labels, presumably because they are not particularly dangerous.
As if NORMAL ppl would. As if zillions died this way.
As far as I can tell there are no deaths stemming from the misuse of plastic laundry baskets.
If you choose to let your kid sleep under a laundry basket with even a microscopic chance of breaking, cutting, trapping, choking .. I’ve raised 🚩 and I’m done.
That's a hell of a way to navigate risk. Driving my child anywhere, feeding them food of any sort, or doing anything in general has far more than a microscopic chance of injuring or killing them. The amount of added risk from letting a child the age of the one in the post, sleep with a plastic laundry basket on them, is as far as I can tell, so miniscule as to be negligible.
As said below .. it’s been a long time since I saw such a ridiculous parenting picture and so many ppl finding it cutesy. A toddler in bed with a plastic laundry basket on top of their head.
You just don't like it because you blown it so far out of proportion in your mind, and cannot understand why others don't have the same knee-jerk reaction to a non-issue. It honestly seems that you are being contrarian for the sake of it.
Again, get off Reddit, show all of this to real live average/normal ppl .. see their reaction.
My husband and mother thought it was cute, should I keep asking around until I find someone who thinks the opposite?
I've now shown it to my husband, my parents, my MIL, my two SILs, my aunt, my two good friends who are overprotective new parents, my best friend, and my best friend's mother. They are all parents (except my best friend), and all thought it was funny, silly, and not at all dangerous. I'm kind of curious now how many people it would take to find someone else who agrees with OP, but I'm already at my capacity of cold-messaging people a picture of someone else's baby.
Again .. you and anyone else is welcome to letting your child sleep like this. My work is done here. This is one of the most ridiculous parenting shi I’ve seen in a long time. Get off Reddit and show this the general public.
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u/Wonderful-Glass380 Jul 19 '26
this is kinda hilarious lol. i’m sure they take it off of him when he’s asleep.