>My son is now 5. When he was 3, he was playing in the family room, which is adjacent to the
>kitchen.
>
>I left to get something, and when I canme back in 5 or so minutes, he had gone into the kitchen
>and grabbed 2 large steak knives off the counter. Not the table knives, the really large ones,
>and was sitting on the couch with both of them.

How come you had sharp knives where a 3-year-old could get at them? When my kids were that age, knives were kept in drawers that have safety latches. It was a PITA to have to open the latch every time we wanted something, but a heckuva lot better than my kids being able to get at the knives.

Tamar