"18 month old ds threw a ball hard into my face. It hurt and dh and I both shouted 'No, say sorry'.
Ds promptly went over to the ball stroked it and apologised!"
This one made me howl! Brilliant!
This time last year I was trying to make sure that my son didn't develop a fear of spiders. I'm not particularly scared of them myself as long as they don't creep up on me. If one drops onto my face from the ceiling or if I turn my head and it's 3 inches away from my face then I'll squeal in terror but if I see it on the other side of the room then I'm ok to put it in a glass and slide some paper under the glass and just put it outside. I just don't like the 'surprise' element.
Anyway, I'd just freaked out because a huge garden spider had jumped onto my hand while I was planting carrot seeds in the garden with my (then 2 year old) son. So I thought I'd better try and show him that spiders are not scary. So I took him to our front door and showed him the spider web above it and pointed out the spider on the web and did lots of 'oooh ahhh, look at the lovely spider! isn't he clever? he's building a web' and I was telling him about how great spiders were but it seemed to work a bit TOO well because he's now completely obsessed with spiders.
He wanted a remote control spider for Christmas that year, and it's about the size of a large dinner plate and he uses the remote control to make it run all over the house (it looks SO realistic but it's the size of a cat!)and he's crazy about spiders. He has hundreds of toy spiders now and he won't stop talking about them. His favourite one is one he made at nursery school out of pipe cleaners and wool and he calls it Mr.Skinny legs.
One time, his toy car (his other obsession is cars) rolled under the table and when it bounced off the wall and rolled out again there was a spider sitting on top of it!
There are no words to desribe his reaction to that although Joy, Hysteria and Excitement spring to mind! lol