It began raining while we were in the grocery store yesterday. We ran to the car and, after buckling in my kids, I swung the rear passenger door shut while turning to rush towards mine.

The click of the latch didn't sound right, so I was already turning back to close the door fully before my son yelled "Daddy, Daddy!" I thought he was warning about the door, but he began to cry. Loudly. That's when I saw four little fingertips poking through. My son has a terrible habit of trying to stop the door from closing. He thinks it's funny. In my hurry to get out of the rain, I didn't see him reach out.

I quickly opened the door. He was sobbing and hiccuping. We live less than two miles from the store, so we were home with his hand wrapped in ice within a few minutes. After a while, he calmed down enough for me to asses the damage - a little bruising, minor swelling, it didn't look bad. Not wanting to poke and prod too much, so I told him to make a fist, then squeeze my hand, but he looked puzzled. In a flash on inspiration, I told him to pull my finger. He grabbed tightly and gave a good yank. His hand was fine.

Whether he learned his lesson remains to be seen.

Had my son in hospital over the weekend after he had a couple of febrile convulsions. He had one at home on friday afternoon when his temperature went over 40ºC and he took an ambulance to the hospital with my wife. By the time I got there he was sitting up and fully alert but we stayed in emergency for the next 6 hours for observation. They had just decided we could go home but they were swaddling him to take a blood sample when he had another seizure. Suddenly he was surrounded by doctors, nurses and EMTs. To make matters worse as all this was going on I started to feel myself getting faint. I looked around for a chair but there were too many people around. Luckily someone grabbed me and I found myself laid out on a stretcher on oxygen. I was freaking out wanting to see my son but they assured me he was ok and my wife was with him. Finally when I was allowed to get up and see him he was coming too and my brother in law had arrived to help my wife who was understandably having a hard time with everything. Anyway after an overnight stay for observation we were allowed to go home. My son seems ok now. He is still getting over the virus that caused the temperature spike but hopefully I will never see another seizure like that.

Oy, fazstp, that's terrible! I wish there was anything I could do! Hopefully your son (and yourself) continues to get well. Truly this is memorably moment I hope you never have to repeat!

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Some years ago, my boss at the time told me had walked in on his son repeatedly banging his head against the wall.

"What are you doing?!" he asked aghast.

"Reformatting my harddisk," replied the five-year-old.
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My three year old son has a bit of an oedipal thing going with my wife. The other day he was on her lap trying to monopolise her attention.

Son: Look at me, only I love you. Daddy doesn't love you.
Wife: Daddy loves me too.
Son: No, only I love you.
Wife: Why don't I ask daddy?
Son: No because daddy isn't talking to you.
Wife: Yes he is. Daddy do you love me?
Me: Yes.
Son: This is how daddy says no... "yes".

I removed the training wheels from my daughter's bike today. She was angry with me and told me that I am not the boss of her. When I told her I am, she said I'm not the boss of her bike. Oh, but I am. Within half an hour she was able to ride about a hundred feet on her own - gasping and shrieking the whole time - before succumbing completely to self-doubt. She's proud of herself, but still a little angry with me.

My kids have a toy piano. Very basic four note. I think it's basically a major chord with a doubled root. My son was playing it from highest note to lowest singing a rudimentary song to each note. "Bang on the house.. bang on the house.. bang on the house." What made me laugh was when his sister took the piano off him he kept singing his song but in the order his sister was playing. "Bang bang.. bang on.. bang on bang.. bang house."

We were getting ready for the day, and I couldn't remember if my four-year-old son, sitting in my wife's lap, had taken a bath the night before. I asked I should put him in the tub. My wife said no. As I walked away, my son looked up at her and said "Whew, that was close!"

We took our son to the local Maternal and Child Health Nurse for a routine assessment. While we were there she was explaining to us that kids his age (3 1/2) don't have good peripheral vision. She then addressed my son to explain that he had to hold mummy or daddy's hand when crossing the road because he wasn't good at seeing the cars. He thought for a moment then said "No because I see cars all the time."

The back of my son's tricycle had filled up with rain overnight. I tipped the water out and it ran across the path and down the drain. My son on observing this asked me "How does the water know where the drain is?"

Good question too. I remember giving my son a decongestant to clear a very clogged nose. His question: "How long does it take to melt?"

I love that about kids. They make you stop and think about something that we just take for granted. I made a small hill out of a play mat and told him to pretend his cars are water and put them on top of the hill.

My daughter put her hands together, closed her eyes and began to pray "Dear God.." she then paused and quickly corrected herself "I mean Dear Santa.." before reeling off her Christmas wish list.

My three and a half year old's vocabulary and reasoning are a constant source of amusement. My wife was putting the kids to bed when she said a quick "Dear God, thank you for giving me the best girl in the world and the best boy in the world." My son came back with "You know mum, God is just in your imagination."

Oh wow! That is very funny and impressive! Where do you think that came from? Is it something he's repeating? Or something he's applied from elsewhere - like an imaginary friend? Or is it possible he's actually done some reasoning at that abstract level at that age? If so - frightening!

I think he came to that conclusion himself. He has many light bulb moments where he connects different things he has learned. It was really funny watching him eat the other day. He had a lump of cheese or something and he was just turning it different ways and transforming it into different things like "It's a giraffe,.. it's a building,.. it's a dinosaur.." but really firing them off. It was really interesting to watch.

Memorable moments in parenting
 

I was just sat thinking the year is almost over and I was wondering when thinking about your business whats the most memorable moment for you this year?? good or bad but good would be nice Ill go first:

I have 3
One was when I alterated a dress for someone and they thought I had forgotten to do I said I have altered it, have you tried the dress on?? "oh not yet" she says, "I will ring you back" 5 minutes later... " I cant believe how amazing it looks, you cant even see where you have taken it in" well my work here is done the 2nd was when i made a prom dress for a girl I used to babysit as a teenager very surreal I was very proud of her and me I liked the last fitting just because it was helpign a friend and nice seeing something through to the end in a weird kind of way. anyway and the 3rd was my first bad client but I love that experience it had to happen one day and now i just giggle about it whats yours??

Laura x

Memorable moments in parenting
 

I was just sat thinking the year is almost over and I was wondering when thinking about your business whats the most memorable moment for you this year?? good or bad but good would be nice Ill go first:

I have 3
One was when I alterated a dress for someone and they thought I had forgotten to do I said I have altered it, have you tried the dress on?? "oh not yet" she says, "I will ring you back" 5 minutes later... " I cant believe how amazing it looks, you cant even see where you have taken it in" well my work here is done the 2nd was when i made a prom dress for a girl I used to babysit as a teenager very surreal I was very proud of her and me I liked the last fitting just because it was helpign a friend and nice seeing something through to the end in a weird kind of way. anyway and the 3rd was my first bad client but I love that experience it had to happen one day and now i just giggle about it whats yours??

Laura x

That's kind of weird and random, especially as it seems to be taken from someone else's post on another forum? In fact many of MomenumsKem's posts seem to be randomly mirrored from other forums.

Well observed!
I left MomenumsKem’s posts unapproved in the Moderator’s Queue because something about them just didn’t ring true. With Google search I find this post from Alyssa Rose in Nottingham on Shell LiveWIRE:

Enough said. Poster banned!
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