Lessons Learned

My daughter is a charming lass
And now is nearly one.
Please have a seat, and rest, so I
Can tell you what I’ve done.

You see she got the Clorox out
And almost took a drink.
But I grabbed it rather swiftly
And then I stopped to think.

I read in some swell magazine
How children are so mild;
That we should never smack them, no
Not even if they’re wild.

But rather, I sat down with her
And told her all about
The health aspects of drinking bleach –
I abstinence did tout.

We discussed all the factors. For
Assurances I plead.
And she made some strange gurgling sound
And nodded with her head.

I think she learned the lesson too -
From bleach she now refrains.
For now she’s rather partial to
The stuff for cleaning drains.