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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is insane.  How did children ever survive until the mid to late 1980's?  Minimal child seats or seat belts for that matter, drinking age and smoking age were lower; how did anyone survive these dark ages?

Oh, yeah - maybe parenting and teaching children there are things you should and should not do. 
Do not climb out the window.  
Do not eat medicine. 
Do not touch a gun.  These seem kind of basic.
It is not like AP has some freaky new medicine bottles that look like candy to kids, say like some laundry detergent products that have appeared that parents have to deal with now.

I would say do the AP a favor and rematch, drop out of the program and find some land in Wyoming to homestead on and live off the land; something a kin to 1800's style of life and put quill to paper (yes, it was around back then) so your great, great children can tweet about their crazy great grandparents.
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Your post is exactly in the vein of "get off my lawn! I walked uphill in six feet of snow barefoot to go to school -- BOTH WAYS -- and look at me! I'm fine!" If you're a parent, I fear for your kids. If you're a nanny or an au pair troll, I hope devoutly you never work in childcare again.

The answer to your stupid rhetorical question is that kids DIED before the mid to late 1980s because of inadequate child safety laws for cars such as seat belts and carseat requirements. Those kids aren't around any more. Many kids but not all kids survived their childhood because of preventable, survivable accidents where carseats and seat belts could have saved their lives.

It is stupid and irresponsible for a parent NOT to take basic child safety precautions to prevent PREVENTABLE accidents. That includes supervising people you employ to keep your children safe to make sure they follow fundamental and basic safety precautions, as well as childproofing the most dangerous aspects of your house, particularly if you have young and therefore by definition impulsive children.

The idea that you can "teach kids not to touch guns" is so freaking stupid that I doubt your basic intelligence. In the US, small children shoot themselves or others roughly once a week, year in and year out. You cannot teach a young child to control his or her impulses every second of every day. The best and most basic safety precaution is never to have a gun in the home, because it's far more likely that you or your child will be harmed by it than protected by it.

Children fall out of windows all. the. time. About 5,000 a year in this country. It happened to a neighbor's kid -- under an au pair's watch, I might add. The little boy narrowly missed getting impaled on their fence. Literally a couple inches' difference made the difference between a normal life and death or permanent disability.

Kids poison themselves all the time with prescription medications. In the US 60,000 to 100,000 kids a year, are treated in ERs for prescription medication ingestion. That's not even counting the kids who poison themselves with household products -- that's more like 700,000 a year. Some of these kids will die. True story. I bet the parents of the children who die would have even stronger words for you than I do about how well the "teach children not to eat medicine"

To the OP -- I think you might have gone a bit overboard in looking in the AP's drawers, but your bigger issue here is not food in your AP's room but your ability to trust her to do her basic job, which is keeping your kids safe from preventable accidents. Not all accidents are preventable, but prescription medication poisonings and falls out of windows certainly are.
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LOL.
Thanks for the cliff notes on child safety advancements.  You forgot to hit the big one of vaccines but clearly you are a literal sort who can only go so far and wants to excuse a beyond helicopter parent now in drone mode; approaching Orwell's, yours, and OPs apparent 1984ish perfect state of everything is preventable if someone else engineers it so I do not have to think about it thus justifying invasion of privacy and what the fuck you have in your dresser is my rational and logical progression to investigate.

Get real, try to fake a sense of humor if possible (really, a quill and homesteading?).  Medicine in AP room is not probable cause to go through dressers and drawers.  You and OP appear to have no value of child care providers or any service class level provider's dignity.[/quote]

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