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Our son is twelve years old, and there is a space of two hours from when he gets home from school, and we get home from work. He is not to be outside, answer the phone, let anyone into the house, while we are not home. The other rule we gave him is to never use the stove when we weren’t home. I was always afraid of him getting burnt, or the house burning down. He was really good about the rules. He stays in the house and gets his homework done. I will call him, but he won’t answer the phone. He wouldn’t let his grandfather inside when we weren’t home. Around Christmas time, I promised him we would make cookies. He wanted to bake some when he got home, but he knew he couldn’t use the stove. I had some cookie dough at home, and he thought he might use the microwave. The furnace was going on and off and he got an idea. He thought if he put a plate of cookie dough on a plate, he could put it on the air vent, and the heat would slowly cook the cookie dough. He walked to the kitchen to do his homework, and forgot about the cookie dough. When we got home, all I could smell was cookies, and the dough had gone into the air vent. It smelled good in the house, but the air vent was a mess. We had to call the HVAC company and have someone come out and clean the air duct and ductwork. The dough had liquefied, and it was deep in the ductwork in that area. I had to commend him for not using the stove, but he shouldn’t have used the air vent, either.

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