It’s not elegant, but it works
Our toddler, Drake, is not a very biddable guy. Now that we live in a house that has three levels, getting from one to another can be difficult. I’ve got a bum wrist with a ganglion cyst, so I’m trying to limit lugging his heavy self up and down the steps.
I usually change his diaper upstairs. I have found that if I wrap up the diaper tightly, I can pitch it down the stairs to the first landing. Drake will shimmy after it, then I’ll kick it to the next landing, he’ll follow it down, then I’ll nudge it to the floor, where he’ll pick it up. I’ll then ask him to throw it away for me, and he’ll toddle through the first floor to the garbage can and toss it right in.
This is very cute, and it gets him downstairs, but the hazard I’ve found is that he doesn’t yet understand that we only put things INTO the garbage can; it’s not a two-way relationship.