My son: The professional drain blocker

It is always a little nerve-racking when my son’s nursery phone me. Most of the time it is to tell me something like, he has a tummy ache or he missed his nap, but every once in awhile it’s telling me he has done something awful and they can’t control him. This latest one was serious because they asked me if I could make it to the kinder to talk about it with him and them together. Turns out he had discovered a love  for blocked drains, Melbourne isn’t full of flexible kinders so I needed him to stay at this one! Of course accidents happen and kids do have a tendency to shove things down drains causing unintentional blockages, but I was assured that this was no accident. Oscar had apparently made his way around the entire building stuffing each sink, toilet and drain with as much play doh as he could find. I couldn’t help but laugh. When they tried to ask Oscar why he decided to block all the drains he said he was just playing. As good of a defense as any in my book! Of course I offered to arrange and fund a company to do the drain unblocking in Melbourne. As soon as we got home I took all the play-doh and put it out of Oscar’s reach! When I told Oscar’s Dad what had happened he was super proud of his little guy for causing such a stir. He thinks it means Oscar is going to be a creative winner! I told him as he was so proud he could take on the burden of arranging the extensive plumbing required to unblock all the drains at Oscar’s school. I have also redirected the nurseries calls to his phone so he can be in charge of dealing with that from now on.