A Safe Christmas
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- Nancy_Coulter
- Maureen Fleury
- HelgaSW
- Juju57
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» Nancy_Coulter - thanks for sharing
maureen, thanks for sharing those great safety tips.although i'm not a traditional mom (my "kids" are my cats)... i still have to worry about "child" proofing my holiday deocrations. i went through checking all the cords for the lights and made sure that nothing could cause any problems. should be a pretty safe holiday season 
when i was a child, i remember my father forgetting to open the chimney flu. our living room quickly filled up with smoke, and dad scrambled to fix the situation. although we now look back and laugh at it, i'm glad it didn't get any worse than smoke!
great holiday safety tips... no matter what the size of your family is
- nancy
-- posted by Nancy_Coulter
» Maureen Fleury - Kids & Cats & Christmas Trees
Nancy:Both kids and cats can wreak havoc on a Christmas tree. I have lots of broken ornaments to prove it! When the tree goes up, it becomes the focal point. My tree is not just up there for decoration, I have an "interactive" one!
When my middle son was a toddler, I found him sucking the lightbulbs. Needless to say, I immediately put the string up at the top of the tree where he couldn't reach it. The tree looked ugly, but at least I had peace of mind!
Have your cats tried to climb the tree yet? I had one who did it only once and when the tree fell over, she was cured of that urge.
I still haven't concluded if kids or cats do the most damage. Despite a mangy looking tree, I wouldn't change Christmas one bit. That's how family traditions are established.
-- posted by Maureen Fleury
» HelgaSW - christmas stories
My mother tells the story often of my parents' first Christmas as new parents of my brother. They placed the small tree inside a playpen. Some how my unusually physically precocious 8 month old brother had gotten hold of an ornament and eaten it.A panicked call to the pediatrician resulted in learning that some cereal would protect him. He was fine. I wonder what the advice would have been today.
-- posted by HelgaSW
» Juju57 - hmmm....
He probably would be admitted to the hospital, given every test from IQ to lead levels, have at least 6 specialists and the scene would probably resemble some improbable scene from a tv drama!As a child, I swallowed my great-grandma's sterling silver thimble. Out of the generations of children to play with said thimble, I was the only one curious enough to actually swallow it! I was given lots of prunes, cod liver oil and attention, until the thimble, uh, returned! Guess who inherited grandma's thimble?!
-- posted by Juju57
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