Category: baby gates

Most baby gates sold for doorways simply cannot attach to a banister, and that is exactly the moment most parents stand in a hallway holding a toddler, holding a gate that was never going to work. There are only three mounting mechanisms that reliably solve a banister: a hardware-mounted gate fixed with screws and a…

At the top of a staircase, only a screw-in hardware-mounted gate is safe. Pressure-mounted gates rely on tension pads pushing outward, and a toddler leaning into one at the top of the stairs can push it over. That single rule shaped every pick in this roundup of the best baby gates for stairs, and it…