When you had babies and toddlers, what rules did you have regarding the household?

My theory was “It’s their house too. They should have as much freedom as I do.” I only had 2 rules:
1) Stay away from the outlets, and
2) Don’t mess with the plants.

One time, when Corrie was a crawling baby, I caught her pulling on the leaves of one of my plants. I scolded her. She rolled over to a sitting position, then, while watching me carefully, slowly reached her hand behind her to take a hold of the leaf again. It was hard not to laugh. Obviously she figured if she couldn’t see herself doing it, then I couldn’t either!

All my pots and pans and Tupperware were in the bottom cabinets. Spent a lot of hours putting that stuff away! I didn’t have anything on the coffee table or any other table that they could reach. For 7 years my house looked kind of barren, but it was safe.

My MIL completely disagreed with what I did. She was a hard ass who said, “Babies need to learn the rules!” She refused to put certain things up when we were there, so I was constantly running after the kids, stopping them from breaking Great Aunt Flo’s urn,or whatever.
Needless to say, we didn’t go there much.

So, did you completely revamp your decor completely when you had little ones?