Forbidden fruit

All of us have times when we are attracted to things that are not good for us or that we shouldn't have...a third cookie after dinner, five (or ten or fifteen) more minutes of sleep after the alarm goes off, watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians during nap time (what?! I would never do that...) As a parent, it is my job to teach Baby B how to resist temptation. The difficult part is that he doesn't know what's not good for him yet. For example...



Look at how excited he is to find the bathroom door open! Now look at all the problematic things (from Mommy's point of view) that he finds in the bathroom...



Within arm's reach is the toilet (yuck), the toilet brush (double yuck), and the roll of toilet paper (disaster in the making once he figures out he could unroll the whole thing if I let him, which I don't!).

Or take the dishwasher. It doesn't matter where he is in the kitchen, when he hears the door open - Bam! He is over there faster than I can pull the bottom rack out to load dishes.



In case you were wondering, yes, he is in the process of climbing on top of the door here. Other times he has pulled knives out of the utensil rack, banged my plates together, and stood up holding onto the top rack. I think the problems with all these are obvious.

And then there is Mommy's closet...I turn my head from the bathroom on almost daily basis to see this -



And if I leave him in there unattended for more than, say, three seconds, I walk in to find this -



He may not know where the bottom of my shoes have been but I do and I do not want that nastiness in his mouth or on his hands. Sorry kid, you'll just have to trust me on that one. Believe me when I say that some temptations are worth resisting.