Mary (3-3/4) has been helping me cook, including at the stove, probably for a year and a half and has never purposefully touched the heat. So we all remain perplexed as to why she responded to my saying, "The stove is still super hot. Do not touch it."
. . . by putting her whole hand on it. I was moving a hot cast iron griddle off the stove top, so had to pick it up with oven mitts and move it to the other counter. I had turned off the stove, but it was still "super hot," so reminded Mary of that so she wouldn't touch it accidentally in the two or three seconds I was all of three feet away from her.
It was definitely scary and I've never listened to a child scream for so long. We spoke to the doctor and were told what to do.
All's well that ends well: By the afternoon, Mary had figured out how to climb to the top crossbar of the swing set, to climb fences, to dribble a basketball, and to swing on the 50-foot rope swing with her second-degree burns and bandaged fingers.
Oh dear, poor sweet Mary! Glad she was able to get on with her active day!
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Ouch!! Sometimes the lessons that stick with us the most are the ones we learned the really hard and painful way. Says she who went to move a hot iron away by pushing the plate with her entire palm... Finger burns hurt and throb worse than just about anything I can think of. Hope Mary heals up very soon!!
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