J has been a real sweetie while Bob was away 😀
On Tuesday he brought me breakfast in bed: a biscuit iced (with writing icing) with a M for Mummy 🙂
On Wednesday it was a meringue with cream and an almond on top 😆
Thursday was Tots so I was up first and he didn’t have time to bring me breakfast, then Bob was back on Friday (yay!) and today was almost anticlimactic, as he brought me a bowl of Fruit and Fibre, albeit with an interesting orange plastic spoon 😉
He’s desperate to be allowed to use the kettle on his own, but for now I’m still saying he can use it as long as there is an adult in the room as well – not so much because I don’t trust him in using it, but because I am concerned about the others getting splashed – and I can’t forget the time that he did use it (without permission) and left the (cordless) kettle on a chair (why???) where K and L found it and L ended up with hot (fortunately nowhere near boiling, but hot enough to give her a shock) water all over her hand 🙁 Am I being overly cautious? Apparently I was cooking fried breakfasts at 5, but then when I lived with my grandparents they were (understandably) hugely over-protective in this respect and I was not allowed to touch things like hot kettles or pans until I was at least 10 😕
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Not being overly cautious at all. A lot of these things become dangerous and accidents occur not because the child is incapable but purely because they are too short. Imagine using the kettle with the worktop at the height to you that it is to him.
I quite often have to remind Clo that it’s not that I think she’s incapable and untrustworthy but that she is just too little and doesn’t have the right strength (poring a kettle requires reliable wrist strength) to do things safely. I would feel wretched if anything happened.
Whilst I’m here, please could you email me your mobile numbers for Friday? Ta muchly xx.
O is allowed to use the kettle to make me a cup of tea — this was an innovation introduced while I was pregnant… BUT she uses a travel kettle (smaller and lighter) and I’ve shown her how to put in *just* enough water — so less risk of spillages. And she is *extremely* careful.
Just a judgement call about the individual child, of course. I don’t expect M will be allowed to use the kettle when he’s 7!