Hai Ku - Lessons learned
SadieCass posted 6 days 6 hours ago —
When teaching kids hot
Include more than your stove top
Think of your light bulbs.
One touch, few seconds
Blisters and redness emerge
Crocodile tears, too
Curious toddlers
Will not be contained to one
Pain experience
But protecting them
Is in our very nature
Screw the lessons learned
From pain and sorrow.
Keeping my baby from a
Blistery finger
Again would be grand.
The monkey’s too curious
It cannot be helped
She’s too curious,
Monkey-like, and very fast
She learns by doing.
I had so much more to lament on today, but given that it’s haiku Friday…I’ve kept to one subject. Sorry feed readers that saw another post I have since pulled :) It may be back in different elements later. As you can see, my monkey decided to play with a lightbulb (regular, soft white, 60W bulb). The image you see is the result. All day she would look at me with big eyes and say “hurt”…I’d have to kiss it better and give her hugs to soothe. Not fun, not my favorite way to spend my day. But, she’s like me…she learns by doing, and she’s going to have many more pain experiences whether I like it or not. *sigh* So remember when teaching your toddler “HOT”, include lightbulbs in it!!
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