Check out These Calm Toddlers!

I'm really digging the engaged faces, educational self-play... and quiet!
It's a dream of mine to create a peaceful, organized, minimal, all-natural play-room like this for my guy and his friends. This very short video via the MMP School in Mount Pleasant, SC has also peaked my interest in Magda Gerber's method of child education, RIE or Resources for Infant Educarers.

This book looks like a good place to start...

Little Escape Artists

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Today I put my 19-month old son down for his nap and went to sit down at the computer; And before I could open my browser,what to wondering eyes should appear, but my toddler causally pointing to his room mumbling something like "Mumma, I got out of my bed, no biggie. Pretty sweet, huh?" 

I said, "Show me how you did that!!" and we went to his room and show me he did. Skill mastered and imprinted.

Oy!

I thought I remembered some mesh-looking crib tent that was designed just for this to-be-expected milestone, but sigh, they are recalled (a good thing, with their track-record that I was unaware of). 

I'm not really sure what to do???
Here's what one mamma did. Time to get on the phone and figure this out...prontisimo! 

Mumma's in trouble! (;