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Those moments that make you go white-faced when you remember them.

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FrancesJ · 21/09/2002 22:27

I wondered if anyone else has these. Meaning, vaguely, those times when you find your little darling poised on the verge of doing something completely, totally dangerous. My worst one is when, on returning from the loo (I don't leave my 2.5 year old unsupervised on a regular basis, honest, but needs must, and she was sat, happily, in front of the tot drug commonly known as 'teletubbies' I found her about to chomp down heavily on a particularly noxious alkaline battery she'd somehow extracted from the remote control (having first moved her scooter to the sideboard to reach said remote). Gazing at it lovingly, as if it was a sweetie......

The 'when do you leave your children unattended in the bath' thread made me think about this one, and I wondered what other people's hair-raising moments were (if you have any, of course

Incidentally, my Mum found me poised about to swallow a drawing pin at one point (I was three). Bless her, she's remembered it to this day.

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janh · 25/09/2002 21:35

Did anybody see the one in yesterday's papers? Mother put 4- and 2-yr-old into train, got out again to get buggy and turned back to see doors closing and train setting off with kids inside?

Another passenger, with car, gave her a lift to the next station and all was well, apparently, but honestly, wouldn't you think the train would keep its doors open long enough...!

Marina · 26/09/2002 15:52

Janh, yes I did see that and it could so easily have been me. Not sure where it was, but Connex keep their off-peak service doors open for a nano-second in my experience - nearly took my dad's hat off today as I was saying goodbye to them.
We haven't had any white-facers to match these stories, but two trips to casualty in a week with ds less than a fortnight after we lost Thomas made me question whether I was losing the plot responsibility-wise. (Ds is fine now, both minor incidents, and I am not wibbling about half so much either).

sb34 · 28/09/2002 01:10

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Hilary · 28/09/2002 11:35

My eldest son was playing 'cooking' at my mums house with some raw pasta, rice etc. We had left him for a couple of minutes and then he came running through saying he'd got a pea stuck up his nose. He was a bit panicky and when I looked, it was so far up I couldn't see it and I couldn't feel it through his nose either. I knew I didn't want to panic him more in case he snorted it even further up so managed to talk calmly about what a silly pea it was etc etc and asked him to blow as hard as he could through his nose. He had to blow lots of times and eventually it did shoot out across the room. I was so relieved, I thought I was going to have to take him to A & E!

SoupDragon · 28/09/2002 11:49

SB34 - my dh did this whilst pretending to "drink the whip" from a pint glass during an evening out in those young, fun, pre children days, sigh. The glass held all the loose change etc from our drinks fund and he drank rather more than he bargained for. Clearly it's something boys don't grow out of!

We didn't bother with casualty - he's a big lad and it was a lttle 10p so not as bad as a child.

susanmt · 30/09/2002 00:03

Things up the nose! My brother did that. He put one of the small bits of lego up his nose cos the 'big boys' (older 2 brothers) told him to. It got stuck and he was too scared to say anything (he was only about 6). Eventually he was mouth breathing so much that his breath got bad - his mum took him to the dentist, who saw 'something' in his nose when he was sitting back in the chair.
He had to have it taken out under a general as he was soo little and it had tissued (flesh grown on it) and was all infected. They reckon it was up there for 6 months. The bit of lego now resides in one of those little plastic urine sample tubes on a shelf in my parents bedroom!

Ghosty · 30/09/2002 08:13

susanmt - eeeewwwwyeugh! I feel really sick after reading that - have to go and lie down for a bit ....

sb34 · 30/09/2002 11:34

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MandyD · 30/09/2002 21:34

Hmm. My son's ENT appointment was held up for over 90 minutes by a small boy with a bead stuck up his nose - he'd been sent up from A&E to the clinic to have it looked at. The poor mum had to bring her 3 other children with her too, and after attempting to get it out the ENT consultant told them to come back next day for a removal under GA.

I've always told my son never to put anything small near his face or ears, touch wood it's working.

leander · 30/09/2002 21:47

I was at my mums house yesterday and we were sitting in the garden having a cuppa.My DS(8mths)was playing nicely with my niece and i was taking turns sliding them down the slide,I sat back down gabbing to my mum when there he is my ds climbing UP the slide he was about half way up and i had to get him calmly down cause if i panicked he would have lost his concentration + fell.I dont know where i got him from he's got no sense of fear and is a little monster.

Willow2 · 30/09/2002 23:50

my cousin got his finger stuck in a mini moke hub cap. Ended up with them having to take the wheel off the car and take it, with cousin still attached, to local firebrigade where they cut it off. The wheel - not my cousin.

Katherine · 01/10/2002 09:08

Last week my DD (2.7) came upstairs and presented me with a bottle of calpol saying she was poorly. I legged it downstairs and she'd moved all the furniture to make a tower which she'd then climbed (scary enough in itself) to reach the cupboard where we keep the medicines (its really high honest). The cupboard was open and there were lots of half used packs of paracetomol, aspirin etc loose inside. My heart stopped and I screeched "have you touched anything else?" DD was very calm and said "No mummy, I just want some medicine". Needless to say all drugs have now been safely locked away but what I find hardest is that I thought they already were safe. It scares me silly that both children are now so clever that if they want something badly enough they just work out how to get to it so its hard to decide what is actually safe anymore.

binker · 07/10/2002 17:46

My younger brother was once found half way up a scaffolding and completely naked (he'd be about 4 or so)!

Snugs · 07/10/2002 17:47

Ooo that happened to my dh - but he was 23 at the time

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