218: When children scare parents
If there’s one thing children are good at, it’s their
ability to give their parents a good scare.
When our son David was about 2 years old, we were at home,
just a regular day, not much going on. At some point, either my wife or I, I
don’t remember which one of us saw it – but we noticed he had some kind of
liquid all around his mouth. Like he had been drinking a smoothie or something.
But there were no smoothies sitting around. So what was it?
Then we saw the open bottle nearby – it was calamine lotion.
You know, the stuff you put on itchy skin for some relief. And it’s for
external use only. So of course we had no idea how dangerous this was. And back
then, there was no Google or WebMD to get answers immediately.
We called 911 – and oh wouldn’t I love to hear the audio of
that call today. The 911 dispatcher either called Poison Control, or connected
us to them. And they told us, thankfully, that calamine lotion is generally
non-toxic. So it wasn’t a big deal. But for a few minutes, to two scared
parents, it was a very big deal.
Recently in the Facebook group, one of our Tuesday questions
was this: Parents – what was the scariest moment with your child? And you
should see all those stories in the comments. And I thought – hey, this should
be a podcast episode. So I asked some of the commenters there to just give a
short version of their story by audio, and that’s what we have here today.
And this is the kind of thing we talk about in the Facebook
group all the time. At the moment there are 8,862 What Was That Like listeners
in that group – and we’d love to have you come over and join us in the
conversations. WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook
And now – some stories of when children gave their parents a
big scare.
Full show notes and transcript for this episode are here:
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