After having this up for a little over a month my 3 year old grandson noticed that the rods were ripping and start pulling them out. A couple days after he could turn the knob to stretch the gate out, lean against it really hard and make enough room for him to be able to climb over. My grandson has ADHD and is very prone to running into the kitchen to grab whatever he wants from the fridge so the first couple of weeks with the gate was wonderful, but it wore down really fast and though I do seem my grandson “smarter than the average toddler” it should not have been that easy for him to turn and unlock the mechanism to retract the gate. I think this could be solved by putting a better locking mechanism on the retracting knob. My photo shows what the gate looks like fully pulled out and how the rods area were worn down in a little over a month all of them could be pulled out.