Last night my little boy (15 months) got hold of a metal skewer while he was in the kitchen with me, I wasn't paying attention in that moment . Thankfully my partner (his dad) was in the living and he took it in there to show him. I shudder to think what could have happened if it had just been the 2 of us at home, and have been awake most of the night thinking about it. We have a safety gate for the kitchen but I was only going in there for a moment and he followed me in. My partner works full time so my son and I are home alone a lot of the time. I do a lot of household chores and cooking/baking etc when it is just the 2 of us. I try to involve him with it all, i.e give him a duster to play with or a plastic bowl and wooden spoon when I'm cooking and he sits on the floor with it (the other side of the safety gate!). My question is do you do jobs when it's just you and your toddler? Do you only do them when they are napping or when there's someone else to keep an eye on them? Should I stop doing other things so I'm not distracted when I'm solely responsible for my son?