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Do you sit your 2 year old on your worktop in the kitchen?

56 replies

Twiglett · 30/07/2006 20:57

because I certainly don't and just had to swallow my tongue and half my teeth to stop myself commenting on sister plonking my 2 year old on it and pointing out all the interesting things .. hob darling, knives darling (big sharp pointy knives held on knife magnet)

arrgghh

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ocd · 30/07/2006 21:18

lol at leopard

cat64 · 30/07/2006 21:19

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Jimjams2 · 30/07/2006 21:20

He also leaps off it onto me like a leopard. Appears to have no concept that aged 7 I'm more likely to drop him/get knocked out than catch him.

Jimjams2 · 30/07/2006 21:20

ds2 stands on a chair but gets scared. I swear to god he has some sort of sensory thing going on.

FioFio · 30/07/2006 21:21

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ocd · 30/07/2006 21:21

lol at JJ with jumpting leaopards

ocd · 30/07/2006 21:21

and JJ it is normal t o feel off balance on a chair

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 30/07/2006 21:23

Jess has sat on the draining board for about 6m otnhs now ( was 2 last week)

She sits and plays with water and cups while DH cooks.

misdee · 30/07/2006 21:28

i dont let my almost 4yr old sit on worktops, she falls off the toilet all the time, she would just be dangerous!!

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ocd · 30/07/2006 21:31

i agree

Jimjams2 · 30/07/2006 21:36

oh cod ds2 is scared of everything, beaches are too sandy, socks are too scratchy, windows down in the car are too windy. DS3 on the other hand shoves his bigger brothers off chairs, climbs up and hangs over the edge. He's be on top of the freezer with ds1 if he could find a route up there!

misdee · 30/07/2006 21:39

ooo jimjams team up ds2 with my dd2, and they wouldnt do a thing all day as would be too scared. dd3 is still at the lovely age of 'no fear'. she has turned my hair grey i tell thee.

ocd · 30/07/2006 21:39

do yot think there is somethign there or tis attnetions sekeing or him being chhosy?

ocd · 30/07/2006 21:40

do yot think there is somethign there or tis attnetions sekeing or him being chhosy?

Jimjams2 · 30/07/2006 21:44

I think he has some slight (very slight) sensory integration type problems. I remember an OT assessing ds1 watching baby ds2 kind of weirdly rolling about (not very well) and she said "err does he always do it like that?" Then went on about how we needed to roll him in blankets.

The sand/beach thing may be because he didn't go until he was quite old. DS1 refused beaches for a few years when ds2 was young.

Could be being contrary though. He loves being contrary. Loves pink, hates football etc etc. He'd better wise up in September (school) !

Chandra · 30/07/2006 21:54

Jimjams, DS was like that! he spent his first day on the beach sitting on a towel cleaning his shoes. He hated the texture of toast, couldn't get him to hold one until he was about 18m old! Actually, finger food was just a distant dream in our house, he plainly refused to touch the food so he was quite dexterous with a spoon by the time he was one year old and he never ever got dirty, I had to smell his babygros to know if they were dirty . Now, two years later, I'm having a serious problem to convince him to take his hands out of the cereal!

Chandra · 30/07/2006 21:57

P.S. and .. yes, DS sits on the worktop since long time ago.

Rav · 30/07/2006 22:56

Yes, DD (6 months)sits in her Bumbo on the worktop when I am busy in the kitchen as she likes to watch.

wannaBe1974 · 31/07/2006 10:35

no absolutely never. In fact I had a safety gate on my kitchen until ds was 2.

The kitchen is one place I am quite paranoid about because accidents can happen so very quickly. I have a cousin who went into the kitchen to ask for a biscuit while his dad was making coffee. My uncle said yes but to wait a minute till he'd finished, my cousin reached up and knocked the cup of scalding coffee off, it went over him and he spent 4 months in hospital being treated for the burns. a protective spray was sprayed on the burns to protect them but it was used in a wrong way and as a result my cousin is now partially deaf. Will try and find link as he was not the only child here for this to happen to. He had to have plastic surgery for his scarring, and even now 30 years on he still has signifficant scars on his chest. and all from one cup of coffee.

There are a lot of things that we can be too paranoid about, but imo there are also things that we can never be too careful about.

megglevache · 31/07/2006 10:37

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MarsLady · 31/07/2006 10:38

Nope!

heiferjamese · 31/07/2006 18:29

Bone of contention in our house. I allow DD to sit on 'lower' worktop (where we eat) whilst I work on 'upper' worktop (where I cook etc)..

I make sure that DD can't touch anything she shouldn't, but DH gets really upset as he says that she would knock herself out if she feel (very hard floor)....

I love DD sitting there watching me, talking etc, and I don't think she will fall. but I know that she could one day. just think if we wrap them up in cottom wool they will miss out.

Please bear in mind that our kitchen was designed with DD in mind. ie moved kitcen to a another room, 4ft bt 4ft, with island in the middle with a lower ridge for eating (same height as table)... Sink on island, then cooker on another worktop, so I think it is quite safe for DD to sit on island with me working....

Charlee · 31/07/2006 18:50

DS does but only when im standing in front of him at all times and there is obviously no knives, hot cookers ect in his reach. He puts veg into the saucepans for me and mixes cake mix with me or he sits whilst my mum does the dishes.