How did the Pueblo Indians who lived on and within the Mesa Verda train their toddlers not to get close to the edge of the cliffs?

Children have a natural wariness of heights.
what happened to the bacon question?

I’ve seen documentaries in Third World countries where they would tie a rope around the kids foot or arm and they were literally on a leash until they were old enough to be trusted.

That’s not a lot different than putting a kid in a playpen.

Not necessarily @Stinley. I had an aunt who fell off of a cliff when she was just 3. Left her brain damaged.
In fact, it’s in our nature to want to be high up. Kids climb on everything they can.

That’s a good solution @snowberry. My gramma used to tie a rope around her youngest (she eventually had 9 kids) and tether them to a tree when she was hanging the washing out to dry.

They showed them the one that did get too close.

They also very likely wore their babies a lot longer than we do, too.

There does come a point though when you can’t wear them any more. They’re 3, 4, 5 years old. They didn’t have locks on their doors, either. What’s to keep the child from going outside when no one notices? They had to have learned in some way. I’m sure they lost some, though.

When they were old enough to know, they were told that the boogie man was down there and would eat them if they fell.

Lots of children died from all sorts of accidents in the old west. I’m sure a few Pueblo tots did fall off cliffs. Children were trampled by horses and other livestock, drowned, got snake bit, got rabies from being bitten by dogs or wild animals, somehow the species has survived. How did prehistoric mothers keep their children safe from Sabre Toothed tigers and Dire Wolves?
I got lost in the Arroyos in Sante Fe New Mexico when I was 4 years old.

Went out exploring when my mother was in the shower and ended up on a steep, narrow foot path on the edge of a cliff in the mountains listening to Bobcats screaming. Obviously I was found, hours later, scared and dehydrated but I survived.

My questions is… Perhaps it’s why they don’t live there anymore?

They played The hills are alive with the sound of music at full blast, this frightened the little buggers away as they believe Julie Andrews to be the anti christ, taught from a very early age that any female who flies using only an umbrella has to be the spawn of satan…

There were older children who probably kept a eye out for the younger ones.

Actually they did scare the crap out of the kids by threatening to summon some really frightening demon. I forget what it’s called.

Yes, we used to walk along the sea wall in Florida. My sister fell off and into the canal when she was 2. The tide was out, luckily. It was my job to keep an eye out for her. I feel so guilty to this day.