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A fifteen-month-old, a flat-pack wardrobe, and a screw that went missing — that's the scenario a listener wrote in about, and it turns out the answer splits in a way most parents never expect. A screw is a sharp object and gets you to the ER. A small smooth washer gets you a chair and a three-day wait. This episode walks through the actual pediatric foreign-body protocol: the swallow test, the size thresholds, the stool-check guidance, and why emetics, laxatives, and the old meat-tenderizer remedy are all actively discouraged. Then it turns to the third category sitting on every DIY workbench — magnets — where two small magnets are far more dangerous than one, and where caregiver awareness is startlingly thin. If you have a toddler and a toolbox in the same house, this is the episode to have already listened to. Episode #546521 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/546521