My Son is too smart for his own good
By dorannmwin
@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
September 2, 2009 11:19am CST
My Paul is almost three years old now. He's growing up way too quick, and he is smart as a tack too. Well, yesterday, I had to use the restroom just after I'd finished giving him a bath. So he wasn't dressed at that point but I figured a couple of minutes of being nude wouldn't hurt him. So, when I get done in the bathroom, I run upstairs to find him so I can get him dressed. He isn't up there. I come back downstairs and do a quick walk through. He isn't there either. I notice that the storm door isn't all the way closed. I quick grab my phone and go outside to find him.
Well, by the time that I get back to the front door, he is trying to come back in. He is still in his birthday suit. I ask him, "Paul, what were you doing?" He tells me, "Getting a choo choo out of the car." At this point I look over at my car and see that the trunk is open.
He'd gotten my car keys out of my purse. He'd gone outside with the keys and opened the trunk of my car. All while he was naked.
That leads to my question. Has your son or daughter ever done anything, however inappropriate that you just didn't expect out of them at their age?
8 responses
@irishidid (8688)
• United States
3 Sep 09
My oldest daughter was pretty precocious and talked so well at the age of two, most people took her to be older. She was also tall, which added to the confusion.
One morning, when she was about three, I woke up to the smell of coffee and the sounds of the coffee maker. She had made my coffee for me and perfectly, I might say. She had watched me make the coffee and just imitated what I did.
She was born independent and still is the same way to this day.
@irishidid (8688)
• United States
3 Sep 09
The locked fridge. I remember it well. We had to keep just about everything locked up or out of reach. My son certainly kept me on my toes and when I finally reached the point in their lives where I could take a breath, people accused me of being a lax parent. If they only knew!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
My oldest is quite like that too. She's been fixing her own food since she was just a little bit younger than my son is now. He actually could fix his own food as well but he has a tendency of eating everything that he can get his hands on so we've actually had to put a lock on the fridge to keep him from getting ahold of all of the food.
@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
2 Sep 09
Frequently as a matter of fact, nothing as extreme as opening the trunk of the car. But when he was just under one, he got himself into the cupboard where the cheerios were kept, got the box of cheerios, and dumped them on the floor and there he was in the middle of a pile of cheerios happily munching away.
He has been climbing since a very young age, and he follows along with book better then I would have ever expected. Cheers.
@irishidid (8688)
• United States
3 Sep 09
My youngest two once got the toaster, bread, and butter in their room to make themselves breakfast one morning.
My youngest was the climber and taught his older sister (she's autistic) how to climb so I had two of them at once. I should have known seeing as he wiggled out of his infant seat at three months old and I found him standing next to it, holding on for dear life. I swear it's the truth! He also had the habit of jumping off everything he climbed on. No matter how high! 
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
How crazy Irish. And to have two at once. Wow!! The idea of taking all of the supplies into their room to make their own breakfast is very cute, but it could also have been very dangerous.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Oct 09
sometimes i also think that these are the ones that might end up hurting theirselves. i had 2 like that. really really smart and many times they got heurt because of their ambitious attitude
your son could have gotten to far into the trunk and locked in, and no one would know where to look. im sure you told him that. one time my oldest was supposedly taking a nap. he was asleep when i looked into his bedroom. he was 2yrs. i went to clean up the living room and was watching tv when i decided about 30 mins later to check on him. not in his room. went through the house. he was on the kitchen floor drinking ketchup...ggeeesh! then right beside him was an empty box of exlax
luckily it had only been 1/3rd full. even at that, we spent the whole evening cleaning him up, even though id made him barf up most of it. after 40 yrs, he still wont eat anything he doesnt know exactly whats all in it
btw, he had gotten into the refrigerator.
your son could have gotten to far into the trunk and locked in, and no one would know where to look. im sure you told him that. one time my oldest was supposedly taking a nap. he was asleep when i looked into his bedroom. he was 2yrs. i went to clean up the living room and was watching tv when i decided about 30 mins later to check on him. not in his room. went through the house. he was on the kitchen floor drinking ketchup...ggeeesh! then right beside him was an empty box of exlax luckily it had only been 1/3rd full. even at that, we spent the whole evening cleaning him up, even though id made him barf up most of it. after 40 yrs, he still wont eat anything he doesnt know exactly whats all in it btw, he had gotten into the refrigerator. @bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Oct 09
oh and this is the one that when he was in 5th grade they wanted to skip him to 8th because they said he was bored.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Wow that is amazing for his age. My son is turning three in january and hasn't done nothing that clever yet. He just likes getting into things. The closest clever thing he has done is i had his little treats which are smiley face gummies. I had them on a shelf hidden behind some other food. Well i left him alone for a matter of minutes came back to find he had pulled everything off the shelf and had gotten his box of treats down. LUckily he couldn't open the treats. Haha!!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
I wish that was all the more that my kids have done. I often have to ask people why it is that I have such smart children. My son is more on the level with children that are six or more months older than him than children that are his own age. The same is true of my daughter who is almost seven years old. Last year she was placed in a gifted program during kindergarten. This year she is already telling me that she is bored at school. Then, just this week I was told by the art teacher at her school that she is the most gifted artist in the entire primary division of the school (K-3rd grade).
@grace118224 (1038)
• China
3 Sep 09
My son is only 7 months old and by far he hasn't been able to do anything that i don't expect out of him at his age. I don't know what will happen to him in the near future . It's still hard for me to know his characteristics now . But now he looks a little shy when he meets strangers . It's no good and we often take him out to meet more people so that he will change this bad habit.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Actually, in a certain sense you are very lucky that your son seems to be shy with strangers. Paul has never met a stranger. He will talk to anyone that he meets and that is very much to my detriment. I am actually scared sometimes that when we go to the store or something he will wonder off from us and go off with some other person because they were nice to him. My other child, Kathryn, on the other hand is very shy around strangers. She won't talk to people for the longest time and now that she is in school that makes it difficult for her.
@hmfryklund (389)
• United States
3 Sep 09
LOL Oh my goodness!! Wow, I would definitely have to say that your son is too smart for his own good! lol I can't believe that he actually did that! My daughter is 19 months and she sometimes does odd things that I wouldnt think she would ever be able to do at her age, but that is just hilarious! Scary at the same time, because not finding him right away would be a scare for sure, but actually getting the car out of the trunk? lol WOW
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
2 Sep 09
I am not sure what you considered the inappropriate part. My son did not always make it in the house when he was three and used the backyard as his outhouse. It was never noticed because we had a dog.
As for getting the keys and opening the car trunk. My son was 4, when he put the car in gear and pinned me between the car and the garage door. He thought it would be fun to drive.
Kids are great, they are smart and observant. Never be shocked by anything they do
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
You know what is funny, my son is in the process of being potty trained right now and one day while we were in the pool he decided that he needed to go to the bathroom and his cousin was in there, so he couldn't go right away. We all know that with a little one, it is important to get into the bathroom right away when they need to go. Well, I told my husband to just let him pee outside. My son about freaked out about it. It was really funny.
@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
2 Sep 09
Frequently as a matter of fact, nothing as extreme as opening the trunk of the car. But when he was just under one, he got himself into the cupboard where the cheerios were kept, got the box of cheerios, and dumped them on the floor and there he was in the middle of a pile of cheerios happily munching away.
He has been climbing since a very young age, and he follows along with book better then I would have ever expected. Cheers.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Sounds like he is definitely nobody's fool. My son too has been climbing since a very early age. He actually started going up the stairs when he was just six months old. He started crawling when he was 5 months old. They just really grow up far too fast.
