Concerned...allnurses store product

linearthinker, DNP, RN · Dec 27, 2010

With all due respect, toddlers have an amazing way of going from nap to digging through mommies (or grandmas) purse in .0001 seconds. Sometimes, no matter how careful and vigilant one is, accidents happen. It isn't always (although often is) bad parenting.. have you ever had a toddler? If so, you should totally understand this.

Yes, I've had6, and no it doesn't happen in every home. I don't understand, and it is irrelevant anyway. Just because some people are idiots doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy a gag gift.

leslie :-D · Dec 27, 2010

Just because some people are idiots doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy a gag gift.

i agree w/this statement contextually, except i don't consider them "idiots".

as a parent, i was HYPERvigilant w/my littles ones...

should i expect all parents to follow suit?

leslie

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Dec 27, 2010

I bow to all who were able to keep their toddlers at arms length and foresee every possible danger.

For the record, when my two boys were toddlers I was hyper-vigilant as well. They never got into meds, purses, cleaning chemicals, etc. I never had to call poison control. But boy did the run into walls, tables, fall off beds and get bumped up and bruised from time to time. I had to take my six year old for a couple steri strips and super glue (who knew?) because he was running around, being a boy and hit his forehead on the corner of the coffee table. I was telling him to stop running the very second it happened. It was like slow motion. Wow- I must be a terrible mom for not foreseeing that one. The coffee table did make it's way into the garage as soon as we got home. :/

The point I'm trying to make is sometimes, no matter how vigilant, accidents happen!

allnurses Guide · Dec 27, 2010

This thread probably is a bit of overkill . . . however, to say that all we need to do is always supervise our kids perfectly and always make sure meds (and other dangerous things) are locked up and that anyone who makes a mistake is an idiot is simply not realistic or fair.

Kids can do the darnedest things. And accidents are quite common with toddlers.

I'm not a perfect mom. I've lost my kids in Macy's between the clothing racks. One son got a paint can from a high cabinet in our garage and decided to hit it with a rock to see if he could open it - fortunately we found him before it exploded. Both of my oldest sons climbed up on our roof to retrieve a ball while I was vacuuming the house. My daughter at 18 months grabbed a box of staples off my desk while I was right here with her and had glanced away for a sec. She was chewing on something when I looked back and I had her open her mouth and it was full of staples. I swept her mouth but one went down her throat. A quick trip to the ER, a call by the doc to consult and we just waited for it to pass the next day in her diaper. Another son grabbed the bottle of cough syrup after I had poured a spoonful for his brother and took a couple of gulps. I could go on and on. Not a perfect parent. But I'm a good parent.

You perfect parents whose kids never ever get into anything . . . . . . care to explain how that happens?

steph

allnurses Guide · Dec 27, 2010

mjmoon . . . you and I were posting at about the same time. Great minds think alike!

So so glad to meet another imperfect parent! :up:

steph

linearthinker, DNP, RN · Dec 27, 2010

I'm not a perfect parent. I just think drugs are a no brainer, and not at all comparable to a kid crawling into a clothing rack. And I wasn't kidding about the lawn darts, lol. We really do have the old kind and play with them a lot in the summer. I am not a helicopter parent by a long mile, yet I have been able to keep my kids from overdosing on meds or drinking household chemicals.

Now if the issue were putting dangerous meds into an altoids box, I could see the point, but putting the proverbial altoids (in this case sunflower seeds) into a bottle labeled or resembling medication, or some household other poison, not so much. I would not pour bleach into a sprite bottle and leave it out, b/c that actually seems dangerous. I don't get the angst or outrage. I think it is ridiculous.

I use old medicine bottles for storing jewelry. Keeps things from getting lost or tangled up, etc. I'd be shocked as sh!t if one of my kids ate an earring back.

GHGoonette, BSN, RN · Dec 27, 2010

And just think, Steph, your kids didn't need any prompting from AN pill bottles to induce them to do any of that stuff...

GilaRRT · Dec 27, 2010

I bow to all who were able to keep their toddlers at arms length and foresee every possible danger.
For the record, when my two boys were toddlers I was hyper-vigilant as well. They never got into meds, purses, cleaning chemicals, etc. I never had to call poison control. But boy did the run into walls, tables, fall off beds and get bumped up and bruised from time to time. I had to take my six year old for a couple steri strips and super glue (who knew?) because he was running around, being a boy and hit his forehead on the corner of the coffee table. I was telling him to stop running the very second it happened. It was like slow motion. Wow- I must be a terrible mom for not foreseeing that one. The coffee table did make it's way into the garage as soon as we got home. :/
The point I'm trying to make is sometimes, no matter how vigilant, accidents happen!

I'm not arguing that point at all, stuff happens. However, why should we quit selling sunflower seed gag gifts that are marketed for adults on an adult site? A parent can choose not to buy this and have it around their kids, so I have to go back to the onus on the parent concept. However, why should childless people, people with older kids and people who choose to buy said gag gift suffer? If you feel strongly against this, do not buy it.

netglow, ASN, RN · Dec 27, 2010

Proud member of the lawn dart throwers club :rckn:

Wait: Aren't they just called "Jarts"?

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Dec 27, 2010

Lawn darts.. lol Didn't they like, ban those or something?

My brothers had bb guns. I wouldn't dream of giving my boys one of those things. (You'll shoot your eye out, kid)

Remember the original weeble wobbles? I loved those as a kid, apparently they are too dangerous too. lol

leslie :-D · Dec 27, 2010

I'm not a perfect parent. I just think drugs are a no brainer, and not at all comparable to a kid crawling into a clothing rack. And I wasn't kidding about the lawn darts, lol. We really do have the old kind and play with them a lot in the summer. I am not a helicopter parent by a long mile, yet I have been able to keep my kids from overdosing on meds or drinking household chemicals.

THANK you.

i think some things ARE foreseeable, and drugs and other tangible, dangerous items, ARE a no-brainer.

while kids are curious and adventurous tykes, there are interventions we can take as parents, that could prevent some of these accidents.

mj, i was a hovering parent when my kids were small...that's why i said HYPERvigiilant...

it was excessive.

certainly NOT calling myself a perfect parent....sheesh. (mj, "sheesh" not meant for you. :))

leslie

linearthinker, DNP, RN · Dec 27, 2010

Lawn darts.. lol Didn't they like, ban those or something?
My brothers had bb guns. I wouldn't dream of giving my boys one of those things. (You'll shoot your eye out, kid)
Remember the original weeble wobbles? I loved those as a kid, apparently they are too dangerous too. lol

How in the he!! are weebles dangerous? They don't fall down! I can se them being a hazard to plumbing if they get flushed... My brother shot me in the arm with a pellet gun when I was a kid, on purpose! My kids have had BB and pellet guns. No deadly accidents. I probably woud not give them a .357 though, just in case. Cause accidents DO happen, and the risk benefit ratio is uncomfortable for me. My kids ski, skateboard, snowboard, scuba dive, and (gasp) drive and ride in cars and airplanes. In the end, it comes down to individual risk assessment. If any individual deems the risk of the sunflowers to be too great, they should not by them. If some well meaning coworker gives them some as a gag gift, they probably ought to leave them in their locker, pass them on or throw them out. The rest of us are, and should be, free to enjoy.