Half of the doorstopper broke off and fell off into the door. The other half dented the doorframe.
But I did save some of the story for you! This happened literally as we walked in the door from school. Nate got sent to time out. I later sent Alex upstairs to get Nate out of time out. Alex is in this crazy door locking phase and he accidentally locked me out of the house on Tuesday night. Well Alex locked Nate's door from the outside, went into Nate's room and shut the door, thus locking both of them in. Alex went bezerker so I let them both out and told them to wash their hands.
They came downstairs and as Alex walked into the bathroom, Nate slammed the door on Alex, shoving him into the bathroom. Alex was fine but Nate went straight back up to time out. When he came back down, I set up a big demo on how you can break someone's fingers, someone's arms, and someone's legs by slamming people in doors by putting Nate's appendages in the doors, mock shutting it, and explaining what could happen.
This was the first 15 minutes upon coming home. I can't describe my joy when Jon finally got home from his business trip at 11PM last night.
Leave a comment if you play along!
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LOL, I can only imagine that demonstration.
There is a funny blog post (in Portuguese) by a mom who lived in an apartment with no safety nets and caught her somewhat older children playing on the window. She put them on top of the kitchen sink, gave each of them an egg and told them to throw it to the floor. Then she put them down and told them to fix the eggs. When they were crying already because they couldn't, she told them that if they fell off the window, there would be no fixing it either. It sounded kind of traumatizing, heheh, but I bet it worked.
OMG, I am cracking up at the image of you doing the demonstration of ways to get hurt by slamming a door. I'll be curious to know if that lesson sticks.
Oh dear. The girls got over door-locking in a hurry after they locked me out while I was chatting with a neighbour. My neighbour was totally freaking out, but I said if they could lock me out, they could let me back in, and it was a nice natural consequence for their actions.
First 15 minutes? You have the patience of a saint :)
Julia, what a beautiful object lesson by the Portuguese mom!
I hope they took your lecture to heart! William and Seth like to slam doors on each other, too. Better a hole in the wall than a broken finger, right? Oy vey.
I played!
I loved the teaser about the whole in the door on Facebook last night. The trick is to only give enough to stir some interest, not to give the whole story away.
My concern with demos like the one you gave the boys is that it backfires. Instead of teaching them why it's bad, it shows them how to increase harm. (That was often my sister's take away, and I was normally the recipient.)
So far Hubby has been locked out but not me. Now I've jinxed myself for sure!
My dad did an awful but effective demo for me and my brothers when we were kids in which he snapped a pretzel in a door and told us that could be our fingers. That pretty much stopped us from fooling around with doors.
You call THAT a hole in the door? Oh, honey, that is just a little scratch. Those door stoppers are good for only two things: punching holes in doors and making little door stopper parts to entertain cats. ;-)
Ben locked me out of the house tonight too! He ran and hid when I started the leaf blower and then pooped on himself. Nice that once I finally got in I found him under the table hugging the dog crying about his red hiney. Project Enlightment eval is MONDAY!!!
Not as good as your first 15 yesterday, but glad to know there is a fellow 3 year old locksmith in the area.
I hope you re-enact that demonstration and post it on YouTube, it would be worth it for the laugh factor alone.
I played today once I finally got my act together.
Oh my... boys!!!!
Oh wow! We had thought about getting those because our boys slam the doors as well but now I am rethinking that. One of the best things we have found so far is something called a door mouse. I wish I would have bought more when I found them in the store originally. Your post made me remember I need to find somewhere online to get them. Thanks! They are just a foam thingy that fits ont he door so they can't actually shut it. It has saved many a finger in my house already!
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