There are 4 cupboards and 1 drawer Vienna can get into in our kitchen. I'm not sure whether it was me or Steve, but one of us managed to rip the child locks off one of the cupboards and neither of us have replaced it. Thankfully, it's the cupboard with all the dishwasher tablets and tins in. Yes, I know what you're all thinking- why not just get a new childlock??
It has crossed my mind as the most sensible solution because I have to use all my powers of persuasion to convince her that she doesn't really want to drop the heavy tins on her toes, or hide dishwasher tablets in her toys. But I've been thinking about it and I'm not sure it's a good idea. It took me so long to choose these childlocks only to have my friend's 3 year old walk straight up to them and open them in a second. ¬¬
I don't want ones that go inside the doors because I can see all of us trapping our fingers in them and I'm not moving the one childlock we do have because that cupboard has Steve's mandrawer and my baking bits in it. So that leaves us with the childlock as it is, and getting a better version of it for the cupboard with ALL THE BLEACH IN THE HOUSE IN IT. Except that won't last, because the dishwasher is next to the bleach cupboard and I just know I'll never remember to open the childlocks before opening the dishwasher and they'll all get ripped off again. And all the time it hasn't got a childlock on it, she's not interested. I don't think she's even realised it's a cupboard.
So here's my plan of action starting from when she goes to bed tonight:
- Carry on taking Vienna out to the kitchen with me when I cook so I can get her involved in making the meals.
- MOVE THE BLEACH.
- Leave the childlock on the mandrawer/baking cupboard for the time being, because even though Amelia can get into it in a matter of miliseconds, Vienna can't be bothered to. Yet.
- Leave the childlock off the cupboard with the tins in until I can put some toys in the bleach cupboard and make it 'hers'.
Hopefully that'll work. It does mean I'll have to put up with extra distraction techniques tomorrow until I can sort through her toys and put some in the kitchen.
Today Vienna wants uncooked rice and stale jacket potatoes for tea. Mummy disagrees.
