Defensitration - do not necessarily try this at home....
If you live in an apartment, have kids, and your apartment is not some attic loft with windows only in the ceiling, then you too have nightmares about your kid/s falling to thier deaths from your bedroom window, innocently cracked open to let in a breeze. N actually had a real honest to goodness nightmare where Felek plunged from our window and N tried to ctach him, missing by fractions of an inch. Terrible, horrible threat- these damn windows, but boarding them up is a very poor option so we're left to teach our kids not to jump out of them and hope for the best.
HOW to teach a child respect for defenistration is an FAQ I grill my girlfriends about as regularly as I can. And recently I heard from K that she actually threw a raw egg out her window and then took her 4 year old son downstairs to look at what was left of it on the sidewalk. She told him - This is what YOU will look like if you fall from a window. Only red.
Her son was very deeply impressed and has treated windowsills with deep reverence ever since.
K was bearly into the elevator when I rushed to my fridge eager to duplicate this amazing feat of didactic instruction. Felek's jaw dropped when he saw me excitedly waving an egg outside of the window and then letting it drop three stories down to the thankfully empty sidewalk below. He eagerly grabbed his flashlight and took my hand as I lead him downstairs to inspect the body. Felek peered and peered at it, then asked me - Where did the egg go?
-This is it. This is all that's left. THIS is what happens to things that fall from windows. You wouldn't want to look like this would you?
Felek confused, looks down at the thin veil of widely splashed egg yolk and the three tiny splinters of shell and asks again.
-But mom, where is the egg?
I sigh. Explain again, we play with the flashlight in the courtyard and on the stair well and go to bed. I file the experiment away as unsuccesfull and think the case is closed. Imagine my surprise when I come home the following evening, get my kiss and have to struggle for half an hour to explain why
- No, we won't be throwing eggs out the window again today!
It's been nearly a week and Felek continues to beg for more defenistration. Not fear it. Doh!
HOW to teach a child respect for defenistration is an FAQ I grill my girlfriends about as regularly as I can. And recently I heard from K that she actually threw a raw egg out her window and then took her 4 year old son downstairs to look at what was left of it on the sidewalk. She told him - This is what YOU will look like if you fall from a window. Only red.
Her son was very deeply impressed and has treated windowsills with deep reverence ever since.
K was bearly into the elevator when I rushed to my fridge eager to duplicate this amazing feat of didactic instruction. Felek's jaw dropped when he saw me excitedly waving an egg outside of the window and then letting it drop three stories down to the thankfully empty sidewalk below. He eagerly grabbed his flashlight and took my hand as I lead him downstairs to inspect the body. Felek peered and peered at it, then asked me - Where did the egg go?
-This is it. This is all that's left. THIS is what happens to things that fall from windows. You wouldn't want to look like this would you?
Felek confused, looks down at the thin veil of widely splashed egg yolk and the three tiny splinters of shell and asks again.
-But mom, where is the egg?
I sigh. Explain again, we play with the flashlight in the courtyard and on the stair well and go to bed. I file the experiment away as unsuccesfull and think the case is closed. Imagine my surprise when I come home the following evening, get my kiss and have to struggle for half an hour to explain why
- No, we won't be throwing eggs out the window again today!
It's been nearly a week and Felek continues to beg for more defenistration. Not fear it. Doh!
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Comment by Anci on July 6, 2008 at 3:06pm - LOOOL your son is sooo cute, throwing eggs out the window again hahahahahahha well, you better think about something else...
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