What's the worst thing a parent can hear from their kid? I'm sure every parent has their answer to that question and I'm sure it varies greatly. I would say that it changes with age too. "Dad, I'm poopy." That's a bad one no matter what age your kid is. "Dad, I'm pregnant (or she's pregnant)." Depends on the situation I suppose. "Dad, I am defecting to Canada. I'm soory aboot that oone."
The point of all these, I suppose, is that my two year old, Kaysen came into my room this morning crying saying, "Dad, I cut myself!"
"Really?!?! What did you do?"
"I don't know." (his typical response to whatever you ask him)
He is holding his left hand in the air with his right and blood is streaming down his hands and arm.
"Really?!?"
I run him to the bathroom to wash off his hand and Mom goes downstairs to inspect the crime scene. Turns out he had managed to get into the top drawer, which contains all the knives, and retrieved the biggest knife with a serrated edge that he could find. He thought it would be a good idea to cut some squash that we had just picked from the garden. By the looks of it, he was doing more peeling that cutting, but he had managed to make a few cuts before he almost took the tip of his pointer finger off. No stitches were necessary, and it's been fun to watch him walk around all day with his pointer finger sticking out.
This kid is constantly full surprises and I'm sure we will have more to come, and I'm sure they will be posted here.
Moral of the story is that your children's knife skills don't develop until they are at least 13, at least that's my guess
