Well, hoovering with a hoover, obviously, but in a toddler's presence.
DD (14 months) gets hysterical when she so much as sees the hoover in the corner of a room.
I've just been given two hoovers for my birthday, a normal one and a hand-held table-top one, and I want to try them out! In case I sound desperately in need of a life, I should perhaps point out that I am also 38 weeks pregnant and nesting like a lunatic.
How do you do it? What is a happy medium between not hoovering until DD goes to school or engendering a lifelong hoover phobia in poor DD?