Shark infested waters
This week’s tackle is mammoth and unexpected as my boys have hit the Houdini stage of development. As with all special needs parents, vigilance is our watch word and when that doesn’t work we use padlocks, deadbolts and trip alarms. After that, the ammunition possibilities are a little limited.
I shall keep this brief as the children are on Spring break and I’m writing whilst they are asleep. I think my own sleep schedule is now officially canceled. I had another post entirely planned but this is more important.
I returned home today from the passport office to find both the boys in the front garden where they had climbed over the five and a half foot wall to avoid the locks on the door. Oh yes, well done boys, I am so impressed with your climbing skills, co-ordination skills, spatial awareness, teamwork, landing safely skills without splitting your respective noggins open on the concrete floor.
A wee while back “Mama Mara” suggested that I use my broken pots for mosaics, however, I have another and MUCH better idea. Jagged, shards of pottery shall henceforth be cemented to the top of every wall on the premises above a moat full of sharks. Well………….maybe if I had a little more time. Hence meanwhile I shall be using the lovely Spring Break to teach my children compliance.
Don’t forget to check out other “tacklers” as well as “Trish” and the “freebie list” at the end of last week’s “tackle,” giveaway either in the box or as a comment. You don’t need to have a blog to enter, merely a postal address.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Oh my! Perhaps i could send Nik over to partake of the lessons in compliance? What you described sounds exactly like what he would have done!
Very smart boys! Scary, but smart.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Bonne Chance!!!
I wanted a fence. Bought fence and gate (extra wide for the mower), parents have fencing, gate is still in the basement… dh never put it up.
I have one hook and eye on the N door, need another for the attic room since little boy goes in there too often for comfort…. actually I bought one but I don’t know where the magpie (little boy) has hidden it.
I didn’t want to put one on the W and E doors b/c of fire etc and I’m usually in the kitchen or office so I can hear them. My Father one day decided he’d oil my hinges b/c they squeaked. I stopped him just in time, how am I to hear them leave if they don’t squeak???
Eldest is on his own, but little boy I have to watch. Last year he was naked in the middle of the barn…. you don’t want to know how he got from A to B… we don’t know how he managed not to get hurt going through a door that he’s never seen open, through a room full antique farm junk. Luckily his Father and Grandfather had seen him near the barn so we even knew where to start looking.
Then there was the day his Father tracked him to the E woods and his Grandfather picked him up on the road walking home….. Along the edge just liked he’d been taught.
Thank goodness my MIL’s a douser, she’s never been wrong. She can skry where he is using a map and a pendant of the farm.
Thing is… he’s not lost… he knows exactly where he is and how to get home. We just don’t know where he’s gone.
S.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:08 am
farmwifetwo has quite a tale, and challenge.
I’ve thought of the shard idea for protection from criminals, but I’ll be considering a moat now. hehe.
I think I saw on a blog where some parents use an electronic bracelet to keep track of their child.
I’m linking my (long) page on childproofing one’s home ~ not specific to children with diagnoses, but maybe there’ll be one suggestion you haven’t thought of. Salud!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:23 am
We definitely have to get creative with boys in the house. They seem to be able to penetrate all barriers. Mine is the same way, climbing over things is one of his strong points.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:58 am
WOw what smart kids
Sooo very scary though
April 14th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Sometimes kids are too smart for their own good.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
That moat could take a while. Trust me, it’s not as easy as it looks.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Our alarm system is my saving grace. We had one put in way before Patrick was born because of a break in. (I was pregnant and freaking so dh had one installed) I have it set to beep when the doors are opened. But honestly I basically was tied to him at all times until he finally understood the “rule”. Good Luck.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I’m afraid I never mastered the teaching of compliance.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Boys will be boys.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I agree with others who said very smart boys but scary too. Sounds like such a big challenge to deal with.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Yep…kids get into everything. I had to do the same thing when my boys were young.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
ha – we have those sort of locks on our doors as well!!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Your boys are veryyyy sneaky.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
So far we’ve been lucky, but I’m sure if he decides he wants to go outside and he thinks it’s okay, he will. I see we need to start discussing this now.
Good luck with the compliance training.
June 15th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Hello thanks to you for this entry.