Pride Goeth…
June 5, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care
You may recall my recent brag posts about both my son and daughter. If so, you might also like to remember the old saying, pride goeth before a fall.
A few days after I blogged about my daughter’s facility with chop sticks, we were having lunch together. She was in her high chair eating noodles and I was sitting beside her eating sushi. About 10 minutes into the meal, I got up to get the baby a drink.
While my back was turned, she grabbed my chopsticks and helped herself to a mouthful of wasabi.
I wiped her mouth out with a damp face cloth, but the poor girl was frightened by the experience. As a result, she refused to take water or rice to calm her mouth down and cried for about half an hour.
Obviously, I have learned a number of lessons about inattention and pride from this experience.
And, while I’ve never left a knife in the baby’s reach before, I now know that the same caution should apply to all utensils. Not to mention condiments.
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Sounds like quite the OMG moment ;>
Oh, poor baby. What an awful experience for her! And for you, too. oof.
Leigh- That is a perfect description.
Christina- Yeah.
Knives? Yup. Twice. Last week. Never gonna get the mother of the year award with that kinda record. And, yes, I was freaked out and am paying much better attention, I think. Good thing I stopped at three. The fourth might’ve been wielding an ax by now and I wouldn’t know.
Kerri – I’ve often thought of a third, but considering the lapses in attention I already have, I think it’s safer if I quit now.
I heard chocolate is the cure for hot burning mouth. My kids are all for this remedy. Who isn’t?
Tracee
Really? I am going to start keeping chocolate in the first aid kits…
I would say, that experience brought you lots of knowledge about an impetuous temptation a child has for the “new”…
Big hug
You’re right Suzel. That too.