This morning Liam awoke to find that his father had put child-safety locks on the remaining kitchen cabinet doors. Liam is displeased with his findings. While I’ve had several people tell me about how they left one cabinet door, filled with things that were safe for baby, lock-free so that the child could play in only that cabinet — I have determined that this will not work in my house.
The two doors that remained without locks contained baking pans and plastic storage containers. Here’re the problems: the cabinet with the baking pans includes a heavy 9×13 cake pan. This wouldn’t be a problem except that no matter how many times Liam pulls it out onto the floor and makes the same terrible racket, it scares the pee out of him (probably literally, although I admit I haven’t checked) and he sobs uncontrollably until I pick him up (which basically he never does). So much for that genius habituation theory, eh? The second problem is the zeal with which he takes every single plastic container out of the other cabinet and scatters them all over the kitchen floor. I have nearly killed myself countless times in the last week on these containers. They’re clear. Some of them are very small. This will not work.
My guess is that he figures out how to open the child-safety locks in very short order. After all–the day after we got our wonderful, new, “childproof” trash can he figured that out. I think the only reason he doesn’t open the can all the time is that he’s much more enthralled with the wheels on the bottom. Maybe that’s the solution:
I think I’m onto something here…