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Claire, our youngest, is a very adventurous child. She can climb a chainlink fence higher than my head. She does very willful and headstrong things. Sometimes, dangerous things.

For example, she knows never to play with lightbulbs and sockets.


Sometimes she forgets. Ah well. She unplugged a night light and removed the light bulb. No big worry. I'll put the light bulb back in, no problem. But... huh... it won't go in. Because there's a piece of metal in the socket. Good thing it was unplugged!


Uh... except it wasn't, originally. She removed the light bulb and jammed in an IKEA widget while the night light was plugged in. You see all the burn marks inside, and on the metal widget?

I'm buying a solar powered night light tomorrow morning.

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The Dreadful Handiness of Children

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The scene: my dearest savant_da_rat and five other family adults around the table, the sole toddler in the clan bouncing around on the floor fewer than two meters away.

And like a bad product-safety movie, Toddler fishes keys out of Mommy's purse and is jangling them while the adults look on smiling. And then Toddler selects one key, leans forward, and tries to jam it directly into the electrical outlet while the adults are all frozen in horror, even unable, in the first moment, to shout, which suddenly they all do in unison: