i'm just looking at my mess of a house, with it's open cased computers (turned on), bookshelves and pieces of equipment lying around and remembering

i mean the other option is adoption....

move the poisons in the cupboards up, empty out the ground level cupboard under the sink

Ah, that's a good idea. Swap the kitchen sink shit to the cupboards and vice versa

I'll do that tomorrow

make sure you get into the habit of turning saucepan handles inward instead of letting them hang out for easy manipulation

He's not that tall yet

fucking thankfully

but he will be by the time you get the habit down

even when they can talk they sometimes grab something they see, even if they know it's dangerous

one of my friends kids used to run up and touch dog shit

of all things

knowing full well it was dirty

if you clean out under the sink of all poisons, don't put breakables in there

get a bunch of plastic things for him to play with in the kitchen

man half my cookware is glass, the rest is cast iron. If he can sort the ratshit from the buckwheat enough to break the glassware, GG, well done, he wins that one

even if he starts banging on stuff with a wooden spoon and making a racket, it's still better than having him under foot

make sure bathroom toys and any other bathroom objects have a clear difference from each other in where they're stored, like no rubber duckies on the same shelf as shampoo kind of thing

that's a psychological trick

ah, that's a good one

if he has a plastic knife to play with, pretend it's sharp like the real knives

someone gave us a baby cage, i inverted it and put it around my computer area so it was the only area that's off limits

cage, the fuck

yeah, people are odd

like the fence thing or full on top, bottom and sides cage?

fence thing

alright

I had a dog kennel in mind

thought "jesus these brits don't fuck around"

sorry i wasn't clearer

i'm Australian

banished brit

vikingr brit

my family left on purpose

if you want to avoid screen fascination, turn screens away from his viewpoints so it's not a fascinating thing to look at

that also means when you're at the computer, you're facing into the room instead of turning your back

I don't know how the hell I'll tackle that one, I'm in enough of a hell giving up vaping so he doesn't want to do that

Man... parenting sounds like there is so much to think about. I don't envy you guys

you probably have a few years of stress relief in vaping, it's relatively boring

tbf, i overanalyse a fair bit but it leads to some interesting solutions

my biggest failing as a parent when my son was little was my sensitivity to sound