I'm in the toddler phase with both boys. Max is mostly not an immediate danger to himself (despite having run straight into the lip of our kitchen island on purpose), but he has a friend who is 2 months younger that doesn't understand that he can't run into the street, which is scary as hell. It almost happened this weekend while they were visiting.
And Drew is a full-blown danger to himself. If I let him, he'd sit under our deck and chew on river rock. Seriously.
One of our lazy habits is to allow Max to have computer time - with a timer and for 15 minutes at a time. We've got what he calls his "computer set" that has basically what amount to action figures that, when properly plugged into the base, will take him to specific sites in a proprietary brouser. Places like Thomas the Tank Engine, Dragon Tails, Fisher Price, etc. that have videos and games he can play. It's all fine for an under-5-year-old. But what he really likes is Youtube videos, usually Blue Angels flights, snowplow trains (don't ask), A-10 Warthogs, Calliou and Justin Roberts (a kids singer). But he can get to some pretty graphic stuff in just a few clicks given the right starting point. There's a whole culture on Youtube that hates Calliou (probably with reason) and have created a bunch of content that's not at all appropriate for a 3-year old. When he's watching Youtube, the mouse sits in a place that he can't reach. He gets to pick the next video, but not without one of us ok'ing it first.
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