Thread: I feel sick.

Oh man that sucks, but its karma. You bust up your parents stuff and your kids bust up your stuff and the cycle continues.
I drove my fathers car into the house at the age of 7. So I know i have a dozy coming.

Originally Posted by gugi

May be time to star shopping for tiny version of leather apron, kevlar gloves, safety goggles and a respirator. It'll teach her both a valuable lesson on why pouring soda over the blades was bad decision (presumably time with the buffers is less fun than time with the dolls and the little red pony), and she can generate some economic value to offset or may be even make up for the economic loss she caused

You said 4 years old, right? I think it's just about the right time. Though you may want to keep it on the hush side given the overreaching government...

Mick

Originally Posted by Bruce

I can distinctly remember thinking that had he only told me about this not-to-do before I did it, I would have never climbed on the darned car.

That's the thing.
What seems non-obvious to us seems perfectly normal to a kid. In my case, I told my kids not to color on the wall or furniture. I never mentioned the grouting between the floor tiles because it's something I would not even think of. I can hardly spank them for doing something they did not know was wrong. At age 2, you cannot really expect kids to have well thought out actions

My daughters have always seen me with sharp objects. I told them to never ever touch them without my say so. And then I taught them how to pick up a razor safely and give it to me, should they ever find one unsupervised. And finally, I told them they would get a big reward if they ever brought me a razor or knife if they found one and gave it to me safely.

These days my kids (4 and 6) enjoy nothing more than to be in the basement with me. they have their own crafts / hammering table in between my tools, where they can use their real hammers with real nails and real pliers. It's not that they cannot safely work with tools and stuff. It's just a matter of being very explicit in what is or is not allowed.

Ah mate, I feel for you..!

All I have to contend with are my cats drinking my honing water... I'm going to stop moaning about that.

Hope you can salvage them.

I know that someone already did a thread on molasses, but I have recently had some good results from a 10 parts water/1 part molasses. 48hrs is all it took.

Might be of help.

Good luck.

Stu