Reason #453 why not to tie a wire to a weight

I think as a mom of boys I experience a lot of things mothers of girls will NEVER experience.  I experience them being stinky, burping all the time, finding farts extremely funny (all of which are very funny) and of course, none of you can say this, tying a piece of wire to a weight and swinging it .

My brilliant oldest child is the mastermind behind this stroke of genius.  This is AFTER my second oldest broke the window in our basement for the second time.  I only found out about the swinging weight because of my little informant, Owen.  Owen very proudly came upstairs and said, "I am going to tell mom or dad that Max is crying and hurt really bad."

Wow, that is one statement that really grabs my attention.  I ran downstairs to find Max, wallowing in his dramatic misery, in their make-shift fort.

He proceeds to blubber how Gavin hit him with a weight he was swinging and it struck his knee.  Granted that does hurt.  But blind furry came into my frontal lobe as I was trying to comprehend how on God's green Earth wonder boy could do something so undeniably stupid.

Gavin came upstairs and muttered, "Mom, I know that was really stupid.  I guess I wasn't thinking."

After a lengthy discussion by Jeb (he is terribly long-winded in his parenting), Gavin and I stretched and yawned and learned a little more about consequences and looking into the future.  Predicting that when you swing a weight with a wire around people it could:

1.  break a window
2.  break a brother
3.  break the heater
4.  break the earth and then we would all fall down into the hole and be swallowed up.

He didn't buy my last reason.  But it sure sounded good.

So we learned something today,

we learned why it is NOT a good idea to tie a piece of wire to a dumbbell weight.  Cannot wait for what tomorrow's lesson may bring!