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to want to warn others of the danger microwaves pose to children after something dd1 did?

142 replies

Dillydaydreamer · 26/04/2009 12:38

I came downstairs yesterday morning to my 3yo dd1 microwaving a large beaker of water. Luckily I got there in time before it had heated and had got it out. I dread to think what could have happened if she had heated the water and spilt it getting it out.
She managed to use a toilet stool (carried downstairs) to reach the microwave.
We now have a high stair gate across the kitchen door!

OP posts:
Hulababy · 26/04/2009 19:14

I got into the habit of having ours unplugged unles being used. Still do it now from habit. I no longer switch the hob off at the plug anymore though.

MadamDeathstare · 26/04/2009 19:23

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steppemum · 26/04/2009 19:23

I hasten to add after my last post that I don't encourage her, she isn't allowed to open the door and gets told firmly no. But I have found her opening the door at other times. Hence stairgate on kitchen door.

frasersmummy · 26/04/2009 19:27

Of course if you have a gas hob you cant turn if off..

well you can turn off the ignition but not the gas supply

we always have the alarm on during the night so the one time ds wandered down alone at 5am most the street was alerted

MadamAnt · 26/04/2009 19:28

I found out the other day that there's a "lock" feature on my microwave (press "Stop" x 3).

I found this out after DS (2.8) had secretly been fiddling with it, and managed to activate the lock. It took me a good few minutes of anxious button-pressing to work out how to open the bloody thing, and it did cross my mind that the parent/child roles had gone a bit topsy turvy.

at APerson's tirade. Bless...one day you'll look back and cringe, my dear..

SerendipitousHarlot · 26/04/2009 19:30

Aperson... snort

Come back when you have your own, until then, I'd mind your beeswax lovey

sleeplessinstretford · 26/04/2009 19:48

when i was little (just over 2) i plugged in an iron,switched it on and got a chair up to the ironing board to iron my dads cardi. i picked the iron up and promptly dropped it straight onto the back of my hand. I have no flesh on the back of my left hand and the skin is weird and wrinkled.When i got engaged people were supposed to be looking at my ring and instead were gasping at my minging hand...

APerson · 26/04/2009 19:50

oh for f*cks sake.

Mumsnet is full of chavs, hippies, 'everyone must BF and co-sleep', lazy, crap parents.

I'm 28, married, working mother of one little girl who is never far from me and I have stairgates everywhere plus a baby alarm that I don't intend to get rid of for a long time.

Have mentioned this thread to all my friends who are equallyl at the stupidity of some people!

now I really am going!

FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 19:53

poor kid - always glued to your side........oh let me guess - she's still a baby/toddler.........just wait

BigBellasBeerBelly · 26/04/2009 19:55

aperson why did you accuse the OP of being a drunk?

Just out of interest.

SerendipitousHarlot · 26/04/2009 19:55

My point is, APerson... everyone makes mistakes. It's how you learn, I believe

Strange that you didn't mention your own child originally.

MadamAnt · 26/04/2009 19:57

APerson - seriously, you need to lighten up otherwise if...no when your DD manages to do something dangerous, you're going to be beating yourself up unnecessarily.

FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 19:57

ooooo how exciting - APerson's DD is 13/14 months (quick search all it took ).

Oh you have ALL the fun yet to come (unless you've alreayd got the "climbs out of the cot while still in Grobag" which children have been known to achieve at 14 months old

BigBellasBeerBelly · 26/04/2009 19:57

Loving that the site is full of both chavs and hippies, not usually two groups known to have so much in common that they happily chat for hours all day...

Got a vision in my head of aperson's DD with one of those large house alarms attached to her front with a flashing light and siren on it

Out of order to say OP is a drunk - very interested to hear where that came from...

FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 19:59

and APerson - you may find you lose the stairgates quicker than you imagined -head first falls over the top of stairgates (thankfully not ones in the stairs in this household!) aren't very pleasant

FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 20:02

and quick - call SS on me - I've just switched on the downstairs monitor and discovered that the upstairs one must still be off.......

I shall leave it until they're all sleep before going to sort it out - which may mean that my 23 month old ends up sleeping in the top bunk (high rise) with my 5yr old as I can't hear him creeping up the ladder with it off

Nighbynight · 26/04/2009 20:03

It is a good thing you are in a minority on this thread, aPerson, or nobody would dare to say anything that reflected less than perfection about their parenting.

It is not lazy or crap not to realise that you have to unplug the microwave oven at night! And it's not lazy or crap to let your child get up by itself. It's actually a valuable lesson in independence.

I first realised that I didnt know everything about parenting when I had 3 children. You sound as though you havent reached this milestone yet.

SoupDragon · 26/04/2009 20:05

Yes, I remember how it was all so simple then...

[howl]
[guffaw]

Morloth · 26/04/2009 20:06

LOL APerson, good luck with that! My DS had to wear a special brace because he had a dodgy foot - his feet were basically tied together in heavy boots joined with a metal bar.

I awoke one morning to my 18 month old snuggling into my chest. He had managed to climb out of his cot, open his door, walk all the way down the hall, open my door and climb into my bed.

While having his legs tied together with a heavy metal bar and wearing a grobag - didn't make a sound even with the baby monitor on full.

They are clever little sods toddlers.

SoupDragon · 26/04/2009 20:07

"I first realised that I didnt know everything about parenting when I had 3 children."

Oh, I realised that at #2. By #3 I realised that I still knew f-all about parenting but it really didn't matter.

MadamAnt · 26/04/2009 20:09

Morloth - LOL

Most 14 months old really are piss easy to parent.

FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 20:09

lol Soupy - same here - my 3 seem to be doing ok though

I was dead lucky apart from 6 months of screaming non-stop and no sleeping at the start (almost literally) DS1 was a p*ss easy baby/toddler..........my god I didn't know how lucky I was until DS2 and then 3 came along LOL

MadamDeathstare · 26/04/2009 20:10

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FAQinglovely · 26/04/2009 20:13

oh wow Morloth - your DS has trumped my DS2 with that one. He was just in the grobag - nothing else to stop/slow him down when he got out the cot at 14 months.. Grobag + special brace - even at 4 months older certainly beats him hands down.

and did I mention that until I moved the, now unused, cot away from the end of the bunk bed I discovered that DS3 was finding the ladder too boring? He was scaling the dizzy heights to the top bunk via the end of the bed, over the head bit, up onto the end of the cot, holding onto the head bit of the top bunk, and pulling himself up and over.

I moved the cot and he instances of him sleeping with DS2 have vastly reduced.......don't think the vertical ladder is such a challenge

Nighbynight · 26/04/2009 20:13

oh I was the perfect mother when I had 2, soupdragon.
I used to get up at 6 am, to make homemade doughnuts for breakfast, before taking my 2 to the child minder and going to work. Then I'd get home with them, and hoover the sitting room, every single night. And I never got cross. How I look back to those halcyon days now.....