Spencer has been helping me cook lately. I've found it gets him to eat a little dinner (he's never been a dinner eater) and also helps him to be a little less finicky (as he's starting being recently). I measure things and let him dump in the pots, Fill pans before they go on burners. Taste test (especially helps in the getting him to try things category, as long as it's not green).
I try to keep him away from burners and hot pans, but last weekend he was dropping cheese in an omelet and burned his wrist pretty bad. He's never been one to overreact about injuries, so after the initial freakout, he was okay but it turned into an angry red line with a blister that he kept scratching at and wouldn't let me put a band-aid or ointment on. Finally, after he fell asleep that night I put a real (read: not a kiddy) band-aid and neosporin on it and left it for a week. Now he still has an angry red line, but it's getting better (which is good, because he won't let me put a new band-aid on).
This kid is always getting hurt. He runs into things head first, trips constantly, and gets his legs stuck under his tricycle. I'm not much of a helicopter mom. I keep him from doing things that will get him seriously injured, but otherwise I generally go with the flow and let him figure things out on his own. The weekend before, he was playing at ikea with his best friend, and said best friend accidentally took him down head first to the concrete flooring. Sufficed to say, there has been an ugly yellow bruise there ever since. I never used to worry about what people thought when they saw the bruises on his head or the bloody scrapes on his legs. He's a boy, and a kid. However, with the addition of this burn (and his collection of bruises on his forehead) I worry that people will think that I'm the one that does it. I worry what my daycare lady thinks when he almost always comes to her with a new injury. She asks him what happened and he says I did it. What the heck? Is it okay for a kid to be a kid these days?
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