Inaccurate. Three whole seconds is enough for a 3yo to find a saw, damage several pieces of furniture, get bored with the saw, find some paint, paint the aforementioned ruined furniture, also ruining most of the floor, get bored with the paint, and demand a grilled cheese.
Source: am parent
Haha brilliant 👏
There are kids that you can leave home and trust to not only not burn the place down, but take care of themselves and their chores.
And the there’s their sibling you can’t trust to hold an umbrella.
I’m my favourite two year old’s favourite adult because I’ve got really cool tools and I will explain their use even to the smallest child when they’re interested. That might also make me my favourite two year old’s parents’ worst nightmare, but that’s the price they pay for my babysitting services. Just hand tools so far - he doesn’t care much for the noisy electric tools, but I suppose we’ll get there soon enough. And no, I will not turn around for even one second, because the above is absolutely accurate. P.S. I love Richard Scarry, learned how to read with one of his books.
That’s a really good idea, it helps the child learn DIY but also to be careful with tools. If someone did that with me I wouldn’t be so fucking useless with them
I hear you. When I was a young girl my parents were too anxious to let us use tools and I don’t want this to happen to any kid. I was lucky enough to find one of these rare boyfriends who teach and explain instead of taking the tools out of their girlfriend’s hands and do the job themselves. With his help I started building my first tiny house when I was 17. One of the items still on my bucket list is organizing DIY workshops for women to boost their confidence around DIY.
That’s amazing!! You’ve got great skills there, you can be really proud of yourself. Your workshop is a great idea! I’m a domestic abuse outreach worker that’s the kind of session we’d love to do it’s really empowering
Oh yes, that’s a great and empowering thing to teach to DA victims! No need to suffer abusive a***holes when you are capable of repairing and building your own stuff. Very inspiring, now I know where to preferably offer those sessions!
Yep and it would really help with self esteem! I literally can’t see a downside
Not a parent, but definitely accurate. My sister is 8 years younger than me and she was an absolute terror at that age. One time she got into the bucket of craft supplies and stole a bottle of paint. It was on her toys, the television, the PlayStation, the cats, and unsurprisingly herself. Nearly everyday she’d break in my room while I was at school and just cause as much mayhem in there as possible. I had a box of over 800 Neopets trading cards that I had carefully organized and she dumped them on the floor. Another time she stole my Game Boy Color and slammed it against a wall because she couldn’t get it to work (it didn’t have batteries in it at the time). Unfortunately, it didn’t survive that.
Back in the time of audio cassettes I came into my room and found a housemate’s kid absolutely engrossed in pulling the tape out of my favourite irreplacable mixtape of obscure macedonian folk music. I kept my countenance as much as possible and manage to not yell at the little shithead too much. Thinking back now it is perfectly possible that he was acting on behalf of some grown up who was not enjoying the obscure Macedonian folk as much as I was.
I got my revenge later when I convinced the kid to test his very noisy battery powered fire engine toy in the bath tub.
Is this a Richard Scarry illustration? His work is amazing
