The essential tools of parenting
So when you bring a baby home, people are very helpful with information about the essentials that you will need for life with baby. When the child gets a little older, the child will tell you most of what it requires wants. What I have discovered is the one tool that you will use almost from the day your child comes home and for the rest of that childs life in your home is one that no one tells you about…until now. I will now prepare you, are you ready? It’s a phillips screwdriver. Every darn toy, music thing, gadget and battery operated doodad that the child will ever own, requires a phillips screwdriver to either open it, assemble it, replace the batteries or pry it out of wherever the child has stuffed it. No one told me this. Thankfully my husband is a tool tart and has about 100 of said screwdriver so there is usually one that I can find at any given time. Now you are prepared to be a parent. Go forth and multiply.
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In certain situations (changing batteries that aren’t supposed to be changed, for instance), you’ll need a couple of those oddball screwdrivers, too. Toy companies like to seal things up with those screws that require a triangular bit and the ones that look like a Mercedes emblem.
A small flat-bladed screwdriver will take care of the triangle screws and Princess Auto has a set of secruity screw bits that includes several sizes of tri-wings.
Gordo - January 19, 2009 at 10:04 am
On and electrical tape for covering over the speakers of obnoxiously loud toys: “Sorry, kiddo, I don’t know why it’s so quiet now”
Gordo - January 19, 2009 at 10:05 am