• grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My nephew based his life on Dennis the Menace. I was cooking a family and got called out of the kitchen where I was working alone.

    Two minutes later I come back in to find this kid (maybe 5?) waving my razor sharp french knife around.

    I very carefully removed it from his grasp and when I wasn’t using it I put it under a towel at the back of the counter. Told his parents to watch him.

    Later he’s got it again and a steak knife.

    I take all the blades, put them in a box, and put them way up high.

    Come back later and he’s got a chair against the counter, a box on the counter, and he’s heading back up the chair with more of mother’s cookbooks to pile up to stand on…

    Some kids are a little more extreme.

    Edit: cooking a family feast, not a family (see first paragraph).