My poor baby. I tell her all the time, when we see pictures of fire in books, or on the very rare occasion when there is a lit candle, that fire is hot, and dangerous, and we don’t ever touch it. This is a good message to impress upon a very curious toddler, I think.<\/p>\n
Except.<\/p>\n
When you go to a hibachi restaurant, you know, where they cook on the table right in front of you, they create fire<\/em>. It’s not as though I’ve never been to this type of restaurant before. In fact, Carrie was there just last January, and it didn’t seem to faze her at all.<\/p>\n Tonight. Oh, I feel so bad. Those first flames shot up and she started sobbing uncontrollably that she needed a napkin (not sure what she thought that would do) and clung to me with all her strength. Sammy (we were out with the Lisa clan<\/a>) had a similar reaction. (Though I don’t think he was asking for a napkin!)<\/p>\n I think it will be another year or two before we try to bring the kids there again! I feel like such an awful Mommy tonight. At least she enjoyed the food once the cooking was finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My poor baby. I tell her all the time, when we see pictures of fire in books, or on the very rare occasion when there is a lit candle, that fire is hot, and dangerous, and we don’t ever touch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}