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[PhDlifeNeedsaNewLife]

three year olds can do things like this?!

When I was 2 I managed to get into the top cuboard where my mother kept the sweeties by pulling over a pot, the bin and then climbing up onto the countertop, walking over the cooker and getting into the sweets.

She nearly had a heart attack when she found me doing it.

So kids can be resourceful.

I also sat on the fire guard because my legs were cold (around the same age.) Yes the fire was on at the time. I should have been kept in a cage.

Some kids are lucky to reach adulthood.

That's quite an impressive bit of organisation from a 3yo... once his mother's stopped having palpitations, she should be quite proud (and get a deadbolt at the very top of the door...). I've got a windchime on our front door now ds can open it on his own.

When I was three, my parents realised I'd gone missing. Cue frantic searches. Eventually they found me a couple of miles away, down a long country lane with no pavements and blind bends (my uncle later wrote his car off on one of those corners). Apparently I'd taken it into my head to go and visit Auntie Lottie (same deal as this kid, really, she always filled me brim-full of sweets).

Not quite as resourceful as this boy, though, as it was daytime.

3 children in my street, 4yo and 7yo twins, do this sort of thing. The ATM at our Spar was making funny noises. Turned out they had left the house at 5am, walked 15 mins to it and stuck 1p pieces into it, thinking notes would come out. The woman across from the Spar recognised them (she worked in it) and took them home. They were in jammies and barefoot.

My friends DH saw them running naked up a street at 4am, on his way to work. He went to their house and the door was lying wide open and had to yell at the top of his voice to wake their Mum and Dad up

Was he definitely awake?

i quite liked this story. anecdote to the stories of international paedophiles roaming the streets in packs.

antidote.

oops! god the pendants willl descend upon me. i am have spelling isshooos and rely on firefox spell check.