#1 2007-12-18 01:13:01
Buckets o' fun:
Mass. -- A 9-month-old Quincy girl drowned Saturday morning after she climbed into a bucket filled with bleach, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office said.
The Boston Herald reported that the baby’s mother Lee Ann Auperlee, 20, was watching three children inside her Sumner Street apartment when her daughter Mya crawled out of her sight and into a bucket on the kitchen floor. (source)
Yeah. When I've got a free-ranging 9 month-old, it's a great idea to keep open containers of toxic substances everywhere at ground level. Parental Darwin Award!
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#2 2007-12-18 01:52:02
Thinning the herd, Paleo. Thinning the herd.
Would it surprise you that my toddler is NEVER out of my sight while he's awake and ambulatory? It's just par for the course...
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#4 2007-12-18 02:42:13
fnord wrote:
Here is a working link. Some people need to be sterilized before they spawn.
Hrm. I forgot to paste it in. Ah, well. It's there now. On the bright side, some spawn can be sterilized after they hatch, 'parently.
On the other hand, however, we've just been deprived of an exceptional infant...with superior upper body strength, incredible speed and navigational skill, and the innate balancing abilities of an Olympic diver who can drop face first into a common slop bucket without causing it to tip or spill. Nail that 10.0!
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#5 2007-12-18 03:12:09
sofaking wrote:
Thinning the herd, Paleo. Thinning the herd.
There was nothing between the patron saint of idiots and death by misadventure for me from age 15 to 25. It's one crowded list of dumb stunts but what stands out now is nodding off and standing on my brakes, only to wake and realize I'd coasted off the road and stalled unharmed on Rt 50 in Nevada. That happened twice.
Least I still see my life's work as making life short and miserable for grownups.
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#6 2007-12-18 05:33:15
pALEPHx wrote:
fnord wrote:
Here is a working link. Some people need to be sterilized before they spawn.
Hrm. I forgot to paste it in. Ah, well. It's there now. On the bright side, some spawn can be sterilized after they hatch, 'parently.
On the other hand, however, we've just been deprived of an exceptional infant...with superior upper body strength, incredible speed and navigational skill, and the innate balancing abilities of an Olympic diver who can drop face first into a common slop bucket without causing it to tip or spill. Nail that 10.0!
Don't think of it as a dead baby. Think of it as a twelfth trimester abortion.
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#7 2007-12-18 11:36:11
tojo2000 wrote:
pALEPHx wrote:
fnord wrote:
Here is a working link. Some people need to be sterilized before they spawn.
Hrm. I forgot to paste it in. Ah, well. It's there now. On the bright side, some spawn can be sterilized after they hatch, 'parently.
On the other hand, however, we've just been deprived of an exceptional infant...with superior upper body strength, incredible speed and navigational skill, and the innate balancing abilities of an Olympic diver who can drop face first into a common slop bucket without causing it to tip or spill. Nail that 10.0!Don't think of it as a dead baby. Think of it as a twelfth trimester abortion.
Or, think if it as one more now VERY WHITE baby, Fnord.
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#8 2007-12-18 15:02:58
sofaking wrote:
Would it surprise you that my toddler is NEVER out of my sight while he's awake and ambulatory?
You and most parents, Sof. And no, it doesn't surprise me, even if I can't quite decide whether vigilance is the norm, or the exception, these days. The article states that there were two other children present (one to tie her down, the other to cover her eyes, we might presume).
I'm fairly sure you and I both get the same annual drubbing for "Watch your kids around water," owing to the number of pools and year-round temps. It never ceases to fascinate me how it's often multi-child households, and Crotchfruit #6 or 7 is the wily monkey who makes a beeline for any minor body of water, somehow managing to scale 6' fences and teleport through locked doors and windows. You then have the so-called parents on the local Fox affiliate, positioned in front of the wind chimes on their tip-out, whining about how they had no idea where their precious kid had gone. Throw in some B-roll of a bobbing water-wing, and it runs four times a night.
A greater peril for HighStreet offspring.
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#9 2007-12-19 19:06:50
My theroy for the rasing of children - and I have two teenage sons at this point - comes down to a single quote by Thomas Jefferson....
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
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#10 2007-12-20 00:02:52
whosasailorthen wrote:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
Indeed. Yours. From having to pay bail more than once or twice, let's say.
If they're troubling you now, then I think you're...circumspect...enough to know they're working with the tools you gave them. Teens are a lot easier to control than most would think. Just pretend that you're a cult, or you're popular, or you love them.
You have to ride out their last cognitive growth spurt, really. Unfortunately, it's also the one that falsely convinces them everything you say and do is shit.
MERRY XMAS!
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#11 2007-12-20 00:21:36
pALEPHx wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
Indeed. Yours. From having to pay bail more than once or twice, let's say.
If they're troubling you now....
Well, the point is, they aren't troubling me.... and the reason is vigilance. Limiting on-line time and making it visible for anyone... encouraging them to involve themselves in volunteer activities, and doing it *with* them... making sure they have a talent and that they nuture it (music and swimming, in the case of my sons)... not giving them everything they ever wanted, and instead having them do a reasonable amount of work for things they really want... etc... Yeah, the older one is in the "Dad's an idiot" phase when he's around his friends - he has to to fit in - but not when he's in the workshop with me, alone... he's in learning mode then, and he's a good kid.
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