The girls were practising putting their faces under the water in the bath tonight. This conversation followed a few minutes later.
Hannah: I don’t want to put my head under the water now Daddy.
Me: No, that’s fine. There’s shampoo in the water now and that’ll hurt your eyes.
Hannah: Yeah, and if you put your eyes in shampoo you go blind!
Me: No you don’t, it’ll just sting. You won’t go blind.
Hannah: Yeah! But! If you put your eyes in THORNS you DEFINITELY go blind!
Me: Yes, thorns would probably do the trick.
Lauren: Yeah, because that’s what happens to the prince in Rapunzel, isn’t it Hannah?
Hannah: Yeah.
Thankfully there were no thorns in the bath on this occasion and the girls made it out with their sight intact. But it just goes to show that sound home safety advice can be found in the unlikeliest places.