Trapped!
I just lost a half an hour of my life trying to get my 3-year old daughter and her friend out of her bedroom where she had pushed up her mattress against the door. The mattress (yes, her bed is a mattress on the floor – she is a third child), got wedged between the door and the dresser. It wasn’t until my two sons managed to squeeze themselves into the room that we were able to free the mattress and the girls.
And just like many stupid-kid antics it had all the elements of an after-school episode. Drama, fear, aggravation, a little yelling, teamwork and finally, reconciliation.
The hardest part of having a kid trapped (Either in a room, or a random body part or in a piece of furniture/toy or some kind of object that you haven’t considered) is explaining them how to free themselves. It went something like this:
“Pull the mattress towards you! , No, the other way, no not by the sheet, grab the bed, no not the teddy bear…Ok, grasp it and pull, no, you have to get off the mattress to pull it" And so on. And of course, you have to keep your voice calm as to not scare the child, so I end up with a weird rendition of the Morticia Adams drawl -- calm, and kind of spooky.
“Every single one of you will lock your child in the car,” my babygroup leader told us as we gazed at our first infants, but we shook our head with naivete. Luckily, I have managed to avoid that one because my car just won’t allow it. But I do have a friend who managed to lock a child in the house and while having a toddler stuck in the car with the keys. Moral of that story is to have a spare set of keys in a handy place so you don’t have to call your husband to drive in from the suburbs…
Jennifer Garner’s daughter locked herself in the car with all the paparazzi watching. Got to feel for her in this moment.
So, has your child ever locked themselves in somewhere? What wacky kidscapades have gone on in your house?
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