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Time for a melt lockdown
By hissychick | February 20, 2009
Anyone else know what it feels like to discover that your twenty month old has managed to escape out of the side gate and after a heart stopping two minutes you discover her down on the street next to the car, waiting patiently to get in and go out?
Like you are going to have a massive heart attack if a major burst blood vessel in your brain doesn’t finish you off first, that’s what.
Yes dear people inside the computer, that’s exactly what happened yesterday morning in the mad dash pre mother’s group, trying to get cakes out of the oven/drinks and hats ready/ washing on the line/oh god I can’t believe that I have been running around like a madwoman since six and four hours later I am running late.
Seeing as the authorities in this country are killjoys and won’t let me take miss E to the vet to be microchipped so I can use real time tracking software it means we have to-yet again- review our child safety measures around our house and yard.
Did someone say electrified fence? I wish.
Topics: WWM 09, hi ho E is on the go, shitscared | 6 Comments »
We have a catflap, you know one of those 15cm square things. Apparently they are also toddler flaps.
If braxton hicks strengthen your uterus I figure children strengthen your cardiac muscles. Either that or I’m running out of lives.
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Posted by: Jenn on February 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pmOh shit- they do have them. I saw them at a trade show (GPS thingies that is)
Posted by: Simone on February 20th, 2009 at 5:21 pmhttp://www.childsafetytech.com/childtrackingsystem
Ooh this is the one we need and also the giggle bug
http://www.childsafetytech.com/store/1328792/product/15612255
Not too dear really either considering
Posted by: Simone on February 20th, 2009 at 7:01 pmOh, heart-attack indeed!!
I can imagine the panic as you know I’d had my fair share of a running-way kid before.
These are the times you really wish you had them tied physically to an apron string.
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Posted by: Moomykin on February 20th, 2009 at 9:37 pmI’m thinking the giggle bug might be a better option than the gaffer tape I was reaching for!
Posted by: hissychick on February 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmohhhh…..heart stopping panic anxiety seizure !!!
Reckon have to get a padlock for the gate or better still lock her in a pen or something!
Does that count as child abuse?
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Posted by: Ann on February 24th, 2009 at 2:53 pm