Reasons I hate my children

[ailbhe]

While I was putting laundry away they opened the laptop and removed half the keys. Rob will have to have a go at key replacement this evening - lots of them are very sticky.

Perhaps I need a 4-foot high laptop station. But they climb.

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[supermouse.livejournal.com]

My mum had a little lamb doll as a child, which she passed on to me when I was a baby. One day, as a young and curious child, I wondered what it would look like without the little pink nose, so I cut it off to see the difference. She has never yet forgiven me, and I have never yet told her what I was thinking when I did it. I hadn't, at that time, learned that taking things apart is an awful lot easier than putting them back together again.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

When I was 3, I got very bored with all my toys. At the same time I got very interested in dropping things from great heights (still am).

You can see where this is going...

One hot summer's afternoon, me and my cousin were left more or less unsupervised as the grown ups were all busy getting ready for some massive family gathering or other. So I decided that we should play the throwing-things-off-the-fifth-floor-balcony game.

Before we were, erm, intercepted, we chucked over:

- all my dolls
- any other toys that were in reach of two pair of tiny toddler hands
- including my toy grand piano, bright red and weighing about as much as I did
- all of his toys
- his mecahno sets, puzzle games and building blocks - one piece at a time
- all the children's books we could get off the shelves
- a few dozen pieces of silver cutlery, left out in preparation for setting the table
- my auntie's new shoes

We were only rumbled because a policeman rang the doorbell (not a good thing when you're in the USSR!!) to inquire if this was the flat where people were chucking things out of and endangering the public. Apparently we nearly did away with a whole phalanx of schoolchildren passing by under the balcony.

Do Not Leave Children Unsupervised: they are more evil and inventive than you are.

=)

[surelars.livejournal.com]

Oh - I love stories like that. I love these things of pure imagination that kids will do. Ingenuity and curiosity at its best. If only we grown ups knew to appreciate it.

[ailbhe]

As a grownup who was *not in charge*, I love it!

[velcro-kitten.livejournal.com]

I'm toying with a tv wall stand in the kitchen at standing height, then putting the laptop on that, so I can browse stuff whilst doing stuff (tho that'd probably just lead to chairs and even more climbing)

[surelars.livejournal.com]

Electric fence? Land mines? We don't have much of that with R, but, damn, some of the kids she has visiting ...