Nuked by my toddler today

bren1960 wrote:
I have 8 kids. .

Omg this explains much

annettemarc wrote:

OP mentioned that she was sitting reading a book, with the 2-year old in her lap, playing with the device. I agree with your overall premise, and I know you specified that you were generalizing. Your statement that you didn't know what her circumstances were led me to think you missed her description in her later post.

BTW, I saw a kid riding a bike the other day. Haven't seen a kid riding a bike in ages. Reminder me of when I was a little kid and on Saturday mornings my parents would say "go find someone to play with" and we kids would spend the day God knows where doing God knows what with God knows who. We knew that when it got dark, we had to go home for dinner. And we'd spend all day having a blast, making up our own things to do. It's a wonder any of us survived. But we had to be creative, and nobody intervened. :)

- yeah if I read about sitting in laps I forgot it by the time I was typing. But heck, I've had kids rip glasses right off my face and break'em, how did I not stop that? Kids definitely get into things. I trust them as far as I can throw 'em. But that's only because I don't want to get caught giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Not on my watch.

And I definitely remember being forced out of the house and expected back at dusk. That was when kids on a milk carton was not taken as the norm, no one shot up schools for attention, and they didn't issue brain drugs for rambunctious behavior, they made you pick out the stick they were going to beat you with.