Have We Really Dumbed Down This Much?!

In the link, Number 11 says not to put people in the washer. I have actually seen this happen. I was at a laundromat folding my things when I heard a small child whining repeatedly. I looked over, wondering what was wrong, and saw that her mother had stood her inside a top loading washing machine. I guess she thought it was a baby seat or something.🙄
 

Alligatorob said:
It is funny, but these things are not good. All this silliness makes actual serious warnings less likely to be taken...
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What an odd statement.

Like every year, every month, for decades the sirens go off on tv and maybe radio, "this is a test of the emergency something " ,
and never once, unless this changed,
were the warnings going off for any real reason/ threat/ or anything - only for a test. So after people see them hundreds of times , or hear them,
think maybe they don't pay attention ?
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Marci children were getting ahold of them and putting them in their mouths because they look like candy.... the children of stupid parents who didn't put the product out of reach.
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We found it helpful and apparently better and safer to train the children to not put things in their mouth, even candy from a friend or someone we know. They always refused it or brought it to us first.
i.e. no need to child-proof the house or yard,
the child was trained right to know what and what not to do.
 
Just Jeff said:
We found it helpful and apparently better and safer to train the children to not put things in their mouth, even candy from a friend or someone we know. They always refused it or brought it to us first.
i.e. no need to child-proof the house or yard,
the child was trained right to know what and what not to do.
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It would be interesting to see you dealing with triplet toddlers, and their sister 1.5 years younger. My house was childproofed to the max. The yard was fenced, a 100 lb. rough collie completed the protection - aside from me, of course. It was necessary because kids can think for themselves, even when they are very young, and sometimes come up with great ideas that no adult would think of. Sometimes they can do things at age 2 when their own mother can't do them.

Like the time the kids found tube of glitter. It had been very well hidden, up very high. None of them were climbers. They got to it in the middle of the night, while my husband and I were sleeping. They poured the glitter into their brother's eyes while he was sleeping, so he would see all sorts of beautiful colors when he woke up. After that, I never bought glitter again. I had no idea how horrible that stuff is.

Or the night they slept in toddler beds for the first time. There was a huge jar of Vaseline on the dresser. It had never been opened. I couldn't get it open. I don't even know why I had it. Anyway, that was the only thing in the room that could conceivably (but not to me) cause a problem. They opened it. They took off their clothes and covered themselves with Vaseline, from head to toe. They covered all the furniture in the room with the stuff, the walls, the new bedding, etc.

That wasn't dangerous, but guess who had to clean everyone and everything up. Seven shampoos later, and their hair still wasn't completely non-greasy.

I still wonder what I thought when I bought that Vaseline. Who needs a lifetime supply of that stuff, all in one big jar? I have bought one jar since (a small one, a decade ago), and I finally threw it out, unused.
 
WheatenLover said:
It would be interesting to see you dealing with triplet toddlers, and their sister 1.5 years younger. My house was childproofed to the max.
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Yes, informative and interesting and edifying and uplifting and encouraging and helpful in many ways.

We and others likewise never had to worry even when we were out at a park, store, church, or someone else's house. It did not matter if someplace was child-proofed or not, the children even very young knew what to do and what not to do --- that's a lot easier than trying to child-proof places , except when unruly children or untaught children would visit someplace, anyplace, even their own yards sometimes.... then an eye has to be kept on them constantly.
 
Aunt Bea said:
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You I gotta love how the Canadians take pot shots at we in the USA. Of course, I can think of a few silly things Canadians do. But, overall, I gotta love 'em.
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