So you don't think by 6 months they are "stuck in their ways"? I feel like I am traumatizing her. She does like to be chased though. When I chase her on my hands and knees and touch her feet, she jumps up in the air and runs. Once she goes under the bed, I know play time is over. She knows I do not climb under the bed after her. My girlfriend's children do and my boyfriend does, but I do not. And with the weather getting nice I want to take them out but if I can't pick them up and put a harness them, then they can't go out.