Parents know that feeling when they realize their kid’s room has been dead silent for a while. The infinite amount of what if’s crosses your mind, and sooner than you know it, your body is in a race against time. Chances are, upon opening the door, you may have caught your beloved little daredevil in action.
So parents on Twitter who have experienced a fair share of close calls and deliberate stunts that were too far ahead to be stopped are sharing their experiences.
From a child who sneaked a baby penguin out of the zoo to a dad hearing “trust me, this is a good idea” from his kids’ room only to have the fastest sprint in his life, you wonder how on earth these sneaky adventurers came up with such ideas.
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When my brother was little (50) years ago, there was a milk commercial in Denmark, slogan was "fly through the day with milk", mum caught him as he was about the launch off the balcony 10 stories up.
''She made it to 25'' or ''She has made it to 25'' ?? I need to know.
Wait, made it to 25..? Is she.. No.. There's no way... Pleaaase say that's not correct..
My then 3 year old son and his 7 year old brother shared a room. We had just moved into a two story home. I was being a responsible parent and showed the older boy how to use the rope ladder we installed on their window in case of a fire. Stressed the emergency part. About an hour after I put them to bed that night, we heard the doorbell ring. It was about 9-930 at night and we had no idea who it could be. Opened the door and it's my 3 year old, grinning ear to ear. He had waited until his brother fell asleep, Climbed out the 2nd floor window and walked alone, in the dark, through the back and front gates, and came to the front door. Scared us beyond belief and that was just one of his many, many heart stopping shenanigans....
I was wondering too. I hope it means she is 25 right now and not....
Load More Replies...When I was about 2yo my mom was cooking in the kitchen and happened to look out the window. I was on the balcony rail almost ready to go over it (6th floor). She came into the room and calmly, not to scare me, asked me what I was doing. I said I wanted to go out and play with the kids....
This one is an urban legend. It always begins with the kid getting lost, is found soaking wet and then is later found taking a bath with a penguin. Debunked by Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birdnapped/
I actually worked at an Aquarium for years and people ALWAYS ask. First, penguins bite and the are NOT friendly. They also yell very loudly when in distress. I am aware of only one penguin abduction ever and it involved an adult and it's a sad misguided story.
Wait people have actually asked you about this urban legend?
Load More Replies...How did a small child go from the zoo to his house with a whole penguin?!
Dude. I did worse. By 8th grade I was the neighborhood electrician.
Load More Replies...I stuck a key in the outlet when I was 2... pretty sure that jumpstarted my memory because i remember the event.
*jumpstarted* great pun my friend! Here have an upvote!
Load More Replies...When I was little my older sister talked me into sticking a bobby pin in an outlet. I came away with nothing more than some black dust on my hand (burnt dead skin) and the memory of a brief flash of pain.
She must have been a real live wire. What? I thought she needed a 'plug'!
I can remember me playing with circuitry at 9 years old and all of the sudden... POW!!! and all the lights in the house went out. (I blew the mains) and hearing from my Dad downstairs... "G*d Dammit Bobby!" I'm 62 now and worked in multimedia all my life around electrical and electronic equipment.
My mom was nearly electrocuted when I was in her belly. It explains a lot
As a small child watching my father shave, I turned to him and asked, “What would happen if I put these (tweezers) in here (socket)?” I did not wait for his response and did it anyway. It blew the circuit (?) in the neighborhood, and I was left with blackened fingers, but no injuries. My father was stunned. The Ancestors were definitely protecting me that day!
My neighbor did the same when he was a kid except he used a fork and it actually sparked and started a fire. He smacked the fire with slippers to put it out. His late father was SO mad at him.
If you have kids in the house, chances are you are no stranger to their sneakiness. Sometimes their stunts are purely spontaneous and born out of boredom, other times they’re elaborate and pretty alarming. And even though some sneaky behavior seems essentially harmless, it’s always better to set the boundaries with your child to make sure their behavior doesn’t escalate.
First off, every parent should see sneaky behavior as something that happens for a reason. Your teen may try to test boundaries—like fudging the actual time they returned home for curfew—to see how much control they actually have over their own lives. In these cases, our little daredevils are quite simply testing us to see how far we allow them to go.
My dad's older brother convinced him he could fly like superman and he jumped off the top of the garage... only broke all of his ribs and chin. smh boys.
Maybe don't leave your young children home alone...at least until AFTER you've taught them they can't fly.
I had 3 stitches in the back of my head from leaping down my staircase pretending to be Superman, I cracked my head on the doorstep.
And it´s questionable, why a 3yr old knows the term "sharpshooter"!
Load More Replies..."You leave 'em for 5 minutes and they start a fire..."
yeah... this is why I could never get a babysitter to come back again... 3 boys.. thank goodness they're older now but they still do stupid stuff when left together smh
this dude was in space the revolution happened and there was a new president like of all days for a revolt this dudes in space. on a one day mission.
Hopefully that didn't become a trend for him. One of the three things that future psychopaths do.
give what to tiny kids who still need a babysitter?? and besides, she was BABYSITTING. you cant woop some random kids ass because they were being kids
Load More Replies...Kids are incredible observers, whether we realize it or not. So the best way to teach them not to indulge in sneaky actions is by being honest yourself. If your little one detects your dishonesty, (and trust me, they do!) they may lose their trust in you and not see being sneaky as somewhat of a big deal.
This can be as simple as fabricating a lie when you don’t want to tell your kid the truth, or prefer to avoid possible questions. But the next time you attempt preaching honesty, they may well remind you that you’re not very good at it either.
Another way of solving sneaky behavior is not being overly reactive. You may be tempted to lose your temper, but this won’t lead you far. Instead, you may want to address the behavior by giving your child an opportunity to explain themself.
Depends on how fast it is spinning. Either way, spinning fast or slow, the fan woulda broken and they would fall on something
Load More Replies...So you think the person that wrote it was a cat, too?
Load More Replies...Confession: I was 6 when I asked my mom, "Can I use Dad's power drill for just a minute?" and that was .... a hard no from my mom.
My mom had the male great-grandson of her's already using power tools in the backyard. She lied to them & told them that work was just another name for play. They did all kinds of repairs for her & even removed stumps & cut down trees before they were 5.
“My husbands come home” How lucky that all of her husbands have the same work schedule.
At least they were clean afterwards. Plus, Dawn is safe for the environment.
Yep and it cleans wildlife affected by oil spills which is great
Load More Replies...I really doubt one bottle of Dawn is enough to cover an entire yard (even a small one) in two feet of bubbles.
You may also want to look for solutions and agreements so that sneaky behavior, e.g. a $5 bill that’s gone from your wallet, never happens again. What if you discuss ways of helping your kid to earn that money and make the unpleasant situation into a teachable moment?
It’s incredible how much we learn simply by talking to our kids without underestimating them. Ask them how they felt when doing wrong and whether they regretted it or not afterwards. At the same time, it’s also helpful to remember that kids often don’t realize how much their lies can hurt us. In this case, you may be expecting too much from them, and you want to start the conversation by addressing the problem from the very bottom of it.
The went well. If you do some research, you will see that many household plants, many flowers, and many garden plants are poisonous, some even very poisonous when chewed. This is easily overlooked, but some infants will happily chew them when teething, and they can indeed become deadly.
Plants REALLY hate being eaten, they’ll kill you if you give them a chance.
Load More Replies...I'll never understand this. Kids don't like eating lettuce, brocoli, or any other vegetable but then suddenly think it's yummy to eat a raw leave, a soap bar, a dirty electrical cord, etc...
I think it's mostly cause they want to do what they want. They don't like vegetables cause they're forced to eat it lol. I guess they think random stuff gives them freedom?
Load More Replies...So many plants are dangerous to eat, the parents were right to panic
Always remember that Stephen King's older brother convinced him to wipe his ass with poison ivy...
My Brother used to do thas when he was a toddler. Also liked to occasionally munch on rabbit feed pellets while at the same time refusing friut or vegetables. I recall him (not quite accurately, I suppose) surviving for about half a year mostly on sugared toast, followed by an equally long diet of nutella-ed and after that bologna sausaged toast. I still don't know how he made it to adulthood without catching scurvy or rickets.
This reminds me of a time when my friend stepped on a rusty nail while he was wearing flip flops. Oooh it looked so painful
This can also be found n the... The last time I trusted my sibling list. 🤣🤣🤣
You know you were a kid idiot you can say s**t
Load More Replies...We did that with my sister after watching a circus performance in the tv.
Split the kipper game was popular when I was a kid. 2 kids face each other and throw a knife just outside the other's feet, and they move one foot to it. They then do the same and if you can't reach the place or are falling you throw the knife between their feet - splitting the kipper . If you manage it you get to stand upright again. Fun game. I remember that we all had boy scout knives on our belts. I'm 66
I am guessing that a fart was involved somehow.
Load More Replies...Nope. Never let boys in groups spend the night or take them anywhere for an overnight trip. Never.
Mine did that mid-spring ... butt naked, while I was 8 months pregnant! The little rascal used a box of Bisleri to unlock the bolt and was out before I could come for the stairs to get him!
When my twins were 2 or so I was in the bathroom, came out to hear a chair being pushed across the kitchen floor. Peeked around the corner and the twins were working in concert. They got the chair over to the kitchen counter, I was curious what they were up to so remained quiet. Twin A kneels down on the floor in front of the chair, Twin B climbs up onto his back then onto the chair and pulls the cookie jar over. Grabs 3 cookies, one he handed to Twin A. I came out of hiding and asked what they were doing. Twin A said we needed a snack. I said why do you have two cookies and he said one was for their 4 year old brother who was in the family room playing with Legos. Their thieving was so cute and thoughtful I couldn't even be mad. I did tell them to just ask next time. It was fun to watch their teamwork.
That's wholesome and cute at the same time. :)
Load More Replies...Yes! Whackamole!!! Serves them right! I bet they didn't do that crap again!
I did that to my cousin. She and my big sister wouldn't let me in the tent with them. I saw a bulge and hit it with a hammer. According to my sis the sudden change in our cousin's expression is something she still recalls over 60 years later.
As a camper for many years it was probably used by the parents to put the tent pegs into the ground ,easy to set down and misplace (it's happened to us a few times ) and a 4 year old to find and pick up , they could have used anything TBH they lifted unfortunately for the older kids it was a hammer
Load More Replies...Is his name Mario? Does he hate mushrooms?
Load More Replies...Drains are usually held together with compression nuts which are supposed to be finger-tight when installed properly. If they were plastic drains, it would be doable for a child.
Load More Replies..."ok, but if anything bad happens ur paying for it" is the move when a child wants to disassemble things. works every time. (assuming they know what money is and understand they don't have any)
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Do I now the feeling. My bunny send me to the ER....
Load More Replies...My rabbit was alowed to wonder the house sometimes (while we watched her) but she hid somewhere once and had bitten several chords.
Spidermom, spidermom, does whatever a Spidermom does, can she swing, from a web? No she can't, she is mom, look ouuuuutt, here comes the Spider mom (about to figure out that I stole a cookie and get me trouble).
Load More Replies...This is clearly not true. Two year olds have neither the strength nor the organisational skills to move furniture, especially beds. Also, what kind of parent has a nap in another room while responsible for the care of two year old twins?
I could believe the parents accidentally napped and the toddlers emptied out everything EXCEPT the furniture, but for real. There’s no way two toddlers moved ALL THE FURNITURE out of a room. Unless all the furniture was that super lightweight plastic and also on wheels.
Load More Replies...I guess the satisfaction from the few people that believe them.
Load More Replies...It blows my mind that you would leave 2 yo unattended, never mind taking a nap while they move furniture around. If this story was real.
I want to believe this but 2 yrds just aren't that strong and even if they where why would they *want* to empty their room I mean idk what goes on through the mind of a 2 yrd but the story seems far fetched lol
I think they might want to, kids do weird stuff, but I can't see how they would have moved furniture at the age of 2... And without daddy hearing it when napping in the next room. IF the room was in fact emptied I'd worry more about some stranger having been in the house whilst the adult was napping and the kids left unattended
Load More Replies...So she found out she couldn't fly. It never occurred to me to try, I just read books all the time.
one time my brother got his finger stuck in a nerf gun and it almost cut is finger off lmaoo
My little cousin did this at about 8yo playing tag with a friend who had a split level back porch and he jumped off the wrong side, I still remember how much of a PITA it was to be around a kid in two casts 😭
I was a tomboy and got a black eye during recess on the soccer field. Mom got tons of bad looks for a couple weeks.
Why would you want to fight an undertaker? Am I missing something here?
i superglued my fingers together once, it wasn't fun 😞 did you know it feels hot?
Why would a child pretend to fight a mortician ? Caitlin Doughty did nothing wrong.
I didn't have to sneak, the penny candy store wasn't that far. I was at least 8.
One time my family and I went to a beach, I was like 6 or 7 and we have a balcony, so since I wanna see down, I pull up a tall tall chair, stand on it, and look over the balcony. My dad who is super protective flips out and grabs me :P That's my story lol
um... hehe... you see, sir... my child dumped paint on your rug, so...
You’re damn lucky that the candy neighbor was a good person. 😬
Easily. You could get run over or kidnapped from that. By not raising hell and punishing you so hard your terrified to leave the house without her ever again she ensured that you wouldn't think it that big of a deal to do it again and maybe killed from it. Dumb granny.
I thought the candy lady was in a white van if ya know what I mean :l
little kids are monkeys, they can climb anything in .2 seconds
Load More Replies...5 minutes is a lifetime if you have a kid. My mom was letting me play on our then attached to the house, now my Mothers Hair Salon of 34yrs. She was in the house doing the dishes and watching a then 7-8yrs old me. She walked away for less then 2 minutes and I was out the door and 3/4 of the way up the Maple tree hanging and swinging from a branch almost at the top of a at least 60+ foot tree and refused to come down. She had to call my Daddy who was on Duty at the Towns Police Department to come home and get me down. Next thing I know I hear sirens from every direction. He and his Officer Colleagues laughed their Balls off. Sadly there are many other stories like this that in tail stunts far worse.
It was worded a little weird. "I couldn't reach him in time, and I couldn't run downstairs in time to catch him. All I could do was hug him after he fell."
Load More Replies...It was worded a little weird. "I couldn't reach him in time, and I couldn't run downstairs in time to catch him. All I could do was hug him after he fell."
Load More Replies...One time, when my little brother was about 2, and I was 8, he stole my nail polish and painted pink stripes all over his body with it (including on his butt) and told us he was a tiger.
when kids get on screens they do not care about ANYTHING else in the world
Once my brother tried to get something out of the toaster oven with a paper towel and it caught on fire.
The lesson to be learned is definitely that children and balconies are not a good match.
first floor, no trouble. the only problem is the rock moat and the deep flood box under our house. i wonder if my brother will do anything stupid in there
Load More Replies...Wow you were really lucky, that someone had the sense to call you and not “try catch him instead “
British first floor or American? American not a big deal, maybe 3 feet. British . . . .
I think this is in Britain. In Britain, their first floor is our 2nd floor. Their first floor is called the ground floor.
Load More Replies...Ground floor, First floor, Second floor... One floor above ground floor
Load More Replies...YOU must be young to not remember the original Maya the Bee ;)
Load More Replies...i can't tell if these kids actually believe this or if they just wanna hurt someone
I'd have cussed that kid out and called the parents to come take away their murderous hellspawn. Don't care the age. I'd have thrown such a fit.
everybody knows that you fix stuff by eating it -- you learn it in your high chair
The basement stairs in my grandparent's house only had the slats across and weren't closed behind them. You could see through the stairs so I'm guessing that the stairs were like that and the kid got stuck in a similar opening.
Load More Replies...Why focus on the negatieve just be Proud Evee was bold enough to share this story
Lemme go try! Guys Don't try it I broke my leg It doesn't work
Load More Replies...I grabbed a few leaves off a bush and stuffed them in my mouth on the walk back to my house "spit those out" "but its just lettuce"
Load More Replies...My mom was hard working pharmacy's manager, so I spend a lot of time there after kindergarten or when I felt not well. It was old style place where they mixed mixtures and other stuff. A lot of big bags with powder... I was regularly tasting all opened. Till one day I started to complain that someone "hid" the best one, sour-sweat...
One time when I was like 2 I managed to get a child proof cap off a bottle of pills and ate them all. (I assume the cap was loose) My sister also drank the stuff in a glow stick once too. My mom's had to call poison control too many times.
i chew on a certain kind of plant in our backyard, but i don't swallow it, i just chew it then spit it out. also i ate dirt once
God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt! - my mom when I dropped my popsicle and she didn’t want to buy another one
Load More Replies...That's the reason my mom wouldn't let us watch movies like that when we were younger, because she knew we would try stupid crap like that.
I came in from the garage just in time to hear my grown ass EX-husband say, “Oh, s**t! We almost forgot your helmet.” I made a mad dash through the house to find him. Instead of hiring someone to clean our 2 story conservatory windows, he decided to put our 10ft ladder on a flat dolly, climb to the top, and have my 2.5 year old niece stand on his shoulders 18 feet above the ground. Apparently, the ladder was too short for him to reach the ceiling, but he realized my niece was the right height to reach the 3 extra feet. He lost his privilege to be unsupervised around children.
This is very minor compared to a lot of these but one day I was doing the dishes whilst watching my 3yo play outside. All of a sudden he disappeared from my view so I went out to look for him. Well I couldn’t find him anywhere, I started frantically calling his name and then I hear giggling coming from under the deck. He had found a gap and crawled under the decking. I couldn’t reach him coz he was so far under and the gap was too small for me to get through. I had to bribe him to crawl out by himself. I blocked the gap after that so it didn’t happen again.
I caught my daughter trying to heat water and Vaseline in a plastic yogurt pot over a toaster that was on. She’d seen a beauty blog and was trying to make lip balm. I once left my two daughters quietly watching Paddington and came back to find the older one with the biggest, sharpest knife in the house. She was copying Nicole Kidman who was trying to stab Paddington,. The younger child was being Paddington and had no problem with this at all.
This all just tells me that not having kids was a GREAT idea and I'm so glad I didn't.
I came out from my shower to find my 4 yr old sitting quietly crosslegged in front of the door, waiting. I asked my husband how long and he said maybe 20 minutes. Said he was quiet so he knew he was not up to no good. inhave told him before and told him again - that's when they're more likely to hurt themselves or break something. Sometimes....
My grandparents had a patio/deck in front of their home with a 12' flight of steep concrete stairs down to the drive. They had those moulded plastic ride-on toddler bikes on the patio. In the less than 5 minutes between us arriving, and Dad and Grandad finishing carrying up the bags, the childgate was open, and three-year-old me dodged four adults to ride down the steps on the plastic bike. Somehow I landed at the bottom with only a few bruises and scrapes. I remember doing it. My plan was to go down the stairs, down the sloping driveway, and onto the steep (fairly-busy) road. It seemed like it would the most fun thing ever. Little kids have no sense of self-preservation.
I was 4 and my brother was 8, and he thought it would be a good idea to play catch with me by chucking a wooden block and my face HARD. It almost blinded my right eye, and I had to go to the hospital to get stitches (I have a scar below my right eye now). 8 years later when we were playing outside in the snow, he decided to play a live action version of Angry Birds with me (and not tell me until AFTER). So he determined that I was the big, he was the catapult and the sheet of ice that he would throw at my face would be the bird. That sheet of ice hit me on the other side of my face, so now I have matching scars below both of my eyes XD
Partially my fault. My dad took my kids and I fishing on a pier with a four foot fence around it. At one point Grandpa drops his tackle box. It's floating so I climb over the fence, Grandpa holds my hand and I lean down and pull the box out. As I'm climbing back over the fence I hear "Splash, Splash, Splash". My youngest wanted to pick a water lily. So inspired by me, the middle child helped him climb over, held his hand while the oldest held on to middle child's feet. (Ages 5, 8, and 11)
Story 1. My brothers had a friend when they were small who was a few ants short of a picnic. They managed to partially explain abseiling to him but he hadn't grasped one of the main points. My mum could only watch in horror as someone else's child carefully took hold of the end of the rope and launched himself of the top of our 30ft pine tree. She genuinely thought she was running out to pick up his dead body as he hit every branch on the way down. His only injury was a gash on the chin from a brick tied to one of the lower branches. Story 2. Put 2 y/o daughter to bed and chill in front of TV. The neighbours across the road knocked on our door and said " we don't want to worry you but your little girl is on the windowsill". Rush upstairs to find her sitting in the 1st floor window swinging her legs in the warm summer air and singing. She turns 20 this year and still isn't scared of heights.
I have no conscious memory of this, but my mother heard my then 7yo sister laughing hysterically, and me (then 2yo) screaming out in the yard. She'd gone inside for a cup of coffee, and in the interim, my sister dump a cup of Kool=Aid on me and put me on an anthill. Sis thought it was hilarious. I have a phobia of ants to this day. My mother very oddly went on to leave me with my sister, unsupervised, for extended periods of times.
I came in from the garage just in time to hear my grown ass EX-husband say, “Oh, s**t! We almost forgot your helmet.” I made a mad dash through the house to find him. Instead of hiring someone to clean our 2 story conservatory windows, he decided to put our 10ft ladder on a flat dolly, climb to the top, and have my 2.5 year old niece stand on his shoulders 18 feet above the ground. Apparently, the ladder was too short for him to reach the ceiling, but he realized my niece was the right height to reach the 3 extra feet. He lost his privilege to be unsupervised around children.
This is very minor compared to a lot of these but one day I was doing the dishes whilst watching my 3yo play outside. All of a sudden he disappeared from my view so I went out to look for him. Well I couldn’t find him anywhere, I started frantically calling his name and then I hear giggling coming from under the deck. He had found a gap and crawled under the decking. I couldn’t reach him coz he was so far under and the gap was too small for me to get through. I had to bribe him to crawl out by himself. I blocked the gap after that so it didn’t happen again.
I caught my daughter trying to heat water and Vaseline in a plastic yogurt pot over a toaster that was on. She’d seen a beauty blog and was trying to make lip balm. I once left my two daughters quietly watching Paddington and came back to find the older one with the biggest, sharpest knife in the house. She was copying Nicole Kidman who was trying to stab Paddington,. The younger child was being Paddington and had no problem with this at all.
This all just tells me that not having kids was a GREAT idea and I'm so glad I didn't.
I came out from my shower to find my 4 yr old sitting quietly crosslegged in front of the door, waiting. I asked my husband how long and he said maybe 20 minutes. Said he was quiet so he knew he was not up to no good. inhave told him before and told him again - that's when they're more likely to hurt themselves or break something. Sometimes....
My grandparents had a patio/deck in front of their home with a 12' flight of steep concrete stairs down to the drive. They had those moulded plastic ride-on toddler bikes on the patio. In the less than 5 minutes between us arriving, and Dad and Grandad finishing carrying up the bags, the childgate was open, and three-year-old me dodged four adults to ride down the steps on the plastic bike. Somehow I landed at the bottom with only a few bruises and scrapes. I remember doing it. My plan was to go down the stairs, down the sloping driveway, and onto the steep (fairly-busy) road. It seemed like it would the most fun thing ever. Little kids have no sense of self-preservation.
I was 4 and my brother was 8, and he thought it would be a good idea to play catch with me by chucking a wooden block and my face HARD. It almost blinded my right eye, and I had to go to the hospital to get stitches (I have a scar below my right eye now). 8 years later when we were playing outside in the snow, he decided to play a live action version of Angry Birds with me (and not tell me until AFTER). So he determined that I was the big, he was the catapult and the sheet of ice that he would throw at my face would be the bird. That sheet of ice hit me on the other side of my face, so now I have matching scars below both of my eyes XD
Partially my fault. My dad took my kids and I fishing on a pier with a four foot fence around it. At one point Grandpa drops his tackle box. It's floating so I climb over the fence, Grandpa holds my hand and I lean down and pull the box out. As I'm climbing back over the fence I hear "Splash, Splash, Splash". My youngest wanted to pick a water lily. So inspired by me, the middle child helped him climb over, held his hand while the oldest held on to middle child's feet. (Ages 5, 8, and 11)
Story 1. My brothers had a friend when they were small who was a few ants short of a picnic. They managed to partially explain abseiling to him but he hadn't grasped one of the main points. My mum could only watch in horror as someone else's child carefully took hold of the end of the rope and launched himself of the top of our 30ft pine tree. She genuinely thought she was running out to pick up his dead body as he hit every branch on the way down. His only injury was a gash on the chin from a brick tied to one of the lower branches. Story 2. Put 2 y/o daughter to bed and chill in front of TV. The neighbours across the road knocked on our door and said " we don't want to worry you but your little girl is on the windowsill". Rush upstairs to find her sitting in the 1st floor window swinging her legs in the warm summer air and singing. She turns 20 this year and still isn't scared of heights.
I have no conscious memory of this, but my mother heard my then 7yo sister laughing hysterically, and me (then 2yo) screaming out in the yard. She'd gone inside for a cup of coffee, and in the interim, my sister dump a cup of Kool=Aid on me and put me on an anthill. Sis thought it was hilarious. I have a phobia of ants to this day. My mother very oddly went on to leave me with my sister, unsupervised, for extended periods of times.
