^ As adults, we have the responsibility to look out for our children. We have to be smarter and more agile and more cunning than they are. I remember watching a friends kid before I had my own. Darn little girl grabbed a fork and stuck it in a light socket before I could grab her. The look on her face was priceless, but the look on MY face must have been sheer horror. I thought she was going to die for sure and I was on the other side of the room.

As an aside, my own kids have been close to falling victim to the dreaded pool. My daughter fell in to our apartments pool when we all had a party there on day. She couldn't swim. I ruined everything in my pockets that day because I was the only adult to jump into the pool to save her. Then my son, decided to go for a swim in the hot tub at the same apartment complex....without me! I had turned around for just a second, and when I looked back, he was missing. I went into the room with the hot tub, and his Elmo slippers were swirling around in the hot tub. Another set of shoes and pocket full of stuff ruined. But I got VERY lucky, because both of my kids are ok today because of my (sometimes lazy) watchful eye. If I had not been paying attention, I would have written off my daughters thrashing about in the pool as a kid being goofy, and my son missing as him wandering off somewhere else. So I avoided tragedy. Pools are evil, and we need more responsible adults when children are around pools or other bodies of water.