I came in from the garage just in time to hear my grown ass EX-husband say, “Oh, s**t! We almost forgot your helmet.” I made a mad dash through the house to find him. Instead of hiring someone to clean our 2 story conservatory windows, he decided to put our 10ft ladder on a flat dolly, climb to the top, and have my 2.5 year old niece stand on his shoulders 18 feet above the ground. Apparently, the ladder was too short for him to reach the ceiling, but he realized my niece was the right height to reach the 3 extra feet. He lost his privilege to be unsupervised around children.

I caught my daughter trying to heat water and Vaseline in a plastic yogurt pot over a toaster that was on. She’d seen a beauty blog and was trying to make lip balm. I once left my two daughters quietly watching Paddington and came back to find the older one with the biggest, sharpest knife in the house. She was copying Nicole Kidman who was trying to stab Paddington,. The younger child was being Paddington and had no problem with this at all.

I came out from my shower to find my 4 yr old sitting quietly crosslegged in front of the door, waiting. I asked my husband how long and he said maybe 20 minutes. Said he was quiet so he knew he was not up to no good. inhave told him before and told him again - that's when they're more likely to hurt themselves or break something. Sometimes....

I was 4 and my brother was 8, and he thought it would be a good idea to play catch with me by chucking a wooden block and my face HARD. It almost blinded my right eye, and I had to go to the hospital to get stitches (I have a scar below my right eye now). 8 years later when we were playing outside in the snow, he decided to play a live action version of Angry Birds with me (and not tell me until AFTER). So he determined that I was the big, he was the catapult and the sheet of ice that he would throw at my face would be the bird. That sheet of ice hit me on the other side of my face, so now I have matching scars below both of my eyes XD

Story 1. My brothers had a friend when they were small who was a few ants short of a picnic. They managed to partially explain abseiling to him but he hadn't grasped one of the main points. My mum could only watch in horror as someone else's child carefully took hold of the end of the rope and launched himself of the top of our 30ft pine tree. She genuinely thought she was running out to pick up his dead body as he hit every branch on the way down. His only injury was a gash on the chin from a brick tied to one of the lower branches. Story 2. Put 2 y/o daughter to bed and chill in front of TV. The neighbours across the road knocked on our door and said " we don't want to worry you but your little girl is on the windowsill". Rush upstairs to find her sitting in the 1st floor window swinging her legs in the warm summer air and singing. She turns 20 this year and still isn't scared of heights.