[MeanWestTexan]

Neighbor had (has) triplets and was overhwhelmed.

(Mama hightailed it on him; long story.)

My wife introduced him to the concept of the "crib tent."

Wonderful invention.

[Belasarius]

When I was a baby and getting out of the crib my momma put a harness of some sort on me and attached it to the crib. I remember fighting with it one night getting the whole house up and don't think they used it more than once or twice

[Mrs. Don-o]

When we adopted our son Vanya from a Russian orphanage, we gave him a big, big bed and he was so full of anxiety he would curl up and rock himself for hours.

How's it goin' now? We got a bunk bed. And here's what he did: he pushed the bunk bed to the wall, put the top mattress on the other side of the bottom bunk to close it off and make a tunnel of it, and then draped blankets on both ends so he had a little cave.

I’d peek in on him when he crept in there: asleep. "Snug as a bug."

Kids with anxiety problems (and plenty of just-plain-normal kids) love to curl up and sleep in a small space, with soft walls they can touch on either side. (Womb?)

I strongly suspect that if these so- called "cages" had been initially reported as "built-in cribs" and the monitors or locks had been noted as "security devices" or "safety adaptations," there would have been no hullabaloo whatsoever.

Eleven kids, some with autism, some with other handicaps, described as "well-dressed" and "polite" and "playing normally"? I'd say IT'S JUST POSSIBLE that are adoptive parents who are doing a fantastic job.