Guest guest Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 What about finding your not-yet-two year old holding a scorpion?? Over the summer, my boys were playing outside and I heard my three year old telling his brother to pick something up. I went to see what it was and my 22 month old proudly held up his hand and said " Look,mommy " . I almost had a heart attack. Perched on top of the back of his hand was a scorpion, about 2 inches long. That means he actually picked it up and put it there without getting stung. I knocked it off his hand and scooped it up in a bucket. I put it in a jar as a reminder of what not to touch. A few weeks later we found a 6 inch scorpion on the wall and actually kept that as a pet. It is hibernating right now... , Elaine Pollard <elainepollard wrote: > > Yep, moms are good for that. You sound like my daughter. I am terrified of > everything, but she wasn't. When she was about 6, they had a reptile show > and tell day at school, and she comes home and tells me about how you can > tell if a snake is poisonous--something about how close their eyes are > together. I was so afraid she would bring home a snake because she was > always wanting a pet. I told her, don't pick up any snakes, and she asked me > 'What if he doesn't have a home?' So I told her that his mom would miss him > if she brought him in, lol. That seemed to appease her for awhile. > > One day she almost caught a jack rabbit. Then, when my brother helped me > move to my first home, he came in cracking up laughing because he said he > saw her holding something. When he came up close, he said she had a beetle & > was petting it. He said she said it was 'the only pet I'll ever have'. She > finally got a dog. She loves, loves, loves animals. When we moved to our > current house, it seemed every week a new animal was coming to the house, > and they always came to her. One time, a stray dog saw her from across the > street. He just jumped in her arms--so cute! He was a little teacup terrier. > I wished we could've kept him, but he was a neighbor's. But she wants to > have a home with a ton of animals. I'm not so into that, lol! > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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