I did require the girls to close the matchbox before lighting a match on it, and to keep the matchbox that they were using separate from the other matchboxes that we have, and to stay in one specific area where I knew where they were and that there wasn't anything particularly flammable nearby.
However, I let them practice until they could light a match nearly on the first try, and I let them experiment with lighting more than one match at the same time, and with lighting a match held by a sister with an already burning match, and with how long they could hold their lit match, and with whether they wanted to shake it or blow it out, and I let them panic and drop lit matches onto the ground, and burn their fingers a bit, and they went through at least four entire boxes of matches, and had themselves a wonderful time.
I did the same exact thing when I was their age, only I was hiding in the backyard with my grandmother's stolen cigarette lighter...good times, that.
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I think it's a really good idea! The more I read your blog the more I think that more parents should be like you and the world would be better!
And I don't want to nitpick... but I admit I would have tied/asked her to tie her hair before.
Did I mention I much I love your blog? Hey I follow you since the time Sydney was still in diapers!
Two years later, I just revisited this post, and I thought, "You're right! I SHOULD have asked her to tie her hair back first!" I can't imagine why I didn't think of it at the time--that kid remains notorious for her curly, floppy, tangly hair that's always in her way and that she never wants to have cut.
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