To be absolutely seething - beyond seething - after walking into the kitchen this morning to find DS playing with the paracetamol bottle that H gave him?

[Tizzylizzy]

I'm gutted. Absolutely gutted. I have an obsession about medicines getting into the wrong hands anyway. H reckons it was fine as the Calpol had a child safety cap on it. I'm just so upset and H doesn't understand why. Keeps saying I've made I've made my point. I'll literally be worried all day now that DS has somehow managed to ingest some of it.

Agree with MsVestibule. If the baby was supervised, nothing bad can have happened, although I agree with the point about medicines not being seen as toys. My twins do sometimes get the Calpol bottle out of the kitchen drawer, but they're always supervised when they're in the kitchen (stairgate across door to prevent unauthorised entrance!) and there's no way they could open the bottle. I'm more worried about the blister packs of tablets. [Mental note: must get some of those cupboard/drawer babyproofing thingies...]

I am very lax, though. And my two don't put stuff in their mouths, even food, half the time. Medicines shouldn't be toys, but I do think the OP over-reacted.

I'm afraid I don't really think it's that terrible but I'm quite lax as well...

Mind you, screw driver would bother me!

YANBU.

Children should learn that medicines are NOT toys!!!!!!

My God sounds like I need to loosen up a bit.