So by your logic once you become a parent you're not allowed to sleep?

Yes. The moment my mother gave birth she stopped sleeping. I keep telling my brother he needs to move out because she's starting to get cranky and the world supply of coffee beans in running low, but he's such an underachiever.

Sleep yes, but there is no way I'd risk napping with my 5 or 6 year old up and running around. I know being a parent can be exhausting but this a prime example of what can happen if you let your guard down for too long. And like someone previously pointed out, it could have been her hand in there instead of the spoon.

Uh yeah, u dont sleep when a child is awake!! Thats just part of being a responsible parent.

Perhaps they laid down together to take a nap, and the kid waited for mom to fall asleep (or woke up early). If the kid is 5 or 6 s/he should know better than to touch things like that, my niece is 4 going on 5 and she knows not to play/touch the garbage disposal. She's the type to hide things under her bed, or in her toy boxes. Maybe OP thought their partner was watching the child? Parents are allowed to nap and sleep after they have kids, and to think they don't is stupid.

I do not think that any one who says a parent cannot take naps while their child is awake has kids of their own yet. It will happen at some time that the child will be awake while the adult sleeps. But, even if I don't believe in totally childproofing a house, because kids need to explore and learn, but something like a food disposal switch, knifes and matches should be out of reach of children.

#34, As most of the people above me, I think that what you say is absolutely ridiculous. First of all, you don't know how old this child is and second of all, do you really think that children should be coddled and protected to an infinite extent? Drawing on my own childhood, I know that my mother would take naps regularly, when I was as young as four years old. I knew full well that any mischief would be severely punished and I knew just as well what was dangerous and what wasn't. So telling a parent that they are iresponsible for taking a nap when they have children is incredibly presumptuous and denying both parent and child of any breathing room. People need to stop trying to protect children from everything that could hurt or upset them. Children need to discover these things on their own, otherwise they will never learn to fight their own battles and take care of themselves. Now I'm not saying that children shouldn't be supervised and encouraged to play with dangerous object, not at all. My point is that children shouldn't be suffocated with security.

38 - How do you know the child is 5 or 6? Clearly, she is old enough to be able to reach the freezer and serve herself ice cream. And she's old enough to know when she's doing something she shouldn't be doing. That, to me, says she's no toddler and therefore should not require constant supervision.

well... she could have used a chair to stand on to get to the freezer.... or it could be a fridge where the freezer in on the bottom. really there is nothing to go on in this FML to determine the age..

I have a kid of my own, hence why I said what I said. I'm up from 7am to 3am dealing with work, 3 kids and school and even I don't nap while the children are up and running around. I can understand if they're older, but if a child does something during day hours while you're laid out sleeping then ydi and thank god it was a spoon and not their hand.

Age has nothing to do with what a child is able to do. My three year old gets a step ladder when he can't reach something or climbs on the counter. Turn your back to see why one child is crying and the other 2 will plot and find something to get into. Kids find a way, it's the parents who make sure they don't execute their plans.

I have 4 children ages 6,5,3,1 all of them can get into my ice cream its called a bottom freezer, pretty popular to have fridge on top. I do not nap, if I do they are too and Im on the couch where if they wake so do I! I dont care if the kid was 2 or 6 obviously they need full time supervision. 6 year olds can fall and knock themselves out, they can walk out a door, so ya please sleep for two hrs while your kids walks down the block. Obviously there r times like in the pooper you cant watch them but you can hear them, and as a mother my showers are as fast as possible, my ***** r with an open door and I rely heavily during those times on my very responsible 6 year old to make sure the rest obey the rules