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My daughter has started a funny pretending game with her Little People Sesame Street set (before you get excited, this set is circa 1977, cleaned up and pulled out of the attic). The characters get all the same injuries that she does. She skins her knee all the time, so Ernie walks out the door, falls on the sidewalk and then she waves him around saying "Knee! Knee!" Last week she lost her balance and knocked her head on the door jamb to the kitchen. Later that day she said "Bert! Head!" and carried poor Bert over to the door, then walloped his head into the door frame. At least she seems to remember the hazardous spots in the house now! Except the stove. I've just started worrying about her new fascination with it. She wants to stir anything boiling in a pot. I've tried getting her a tiny kitchen stove as well as letting her stir a real pot with a real spoon with the stool as the pretend stove surface, but she's no longer placated by these substitutions. Any other ideas out there?