I usually put up 2 trees, and last year was the only year I haven't put a tree up at all. Owen was less than a year old. This year I only put the white one up (I loaned my boyfriend the green tree to put up at his house so he would have a tree) , and so far so good. Noone has been exploring in the branches (Cricket used to scale up the inside of the tree) and I have never had one knocked over. I have had a few ornaments broken which were glued back with super glue, no worse for the wear.