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aw you're the best daddy. that's awesome.

@mh330 - my dad made an outdoor swingset for us as kids, and when i say 'us as kids' i mean 'four boys and two girls between the ages of 2 and 12' ... and that's all he used to hold the swings in place. And the kits you can buy to put up in your backyard have the same thing (albiet a bit bigger than what's used here.) These screws are, in fact, what is generally acceptable. I assure you that none of us died or even got injured/fell, despite many butterflies (two kids/one swing) and similar rough play. (getting hit in the head with a swing is another matter)
A two year old should be more than safe with this setup.

we don't keep anything, but we don't really need to. aside from living in a neighbourhood where the worst thing is 12 yr olds stealing CDs out of an unlocked vehicle and littering like crazy, my hubby is 6'5" and broad and muscular. It's funny cos he looks really fierce but, as one bank teller said, has 'a nice gentle voice'... but when he's scared/mad that nice-gentle thing vanishes. lol. Plus our neighbour is a retired firefighter, and HIS neighbour is a CURRENT firefighter. So it's a pretty safe neighbourhood.
once at his old place i heard screaming outside and what sounded like a shot, we peeked out and there was a woman running away screaming and a man yelling at her and waving a gun. So my husband ran outside to intervene, hopping in his truck and picking the woman up. Then the guy drove up and started threatening my husband with the gun, and my husband was like, "What are you going to do? You're going to shoot me? Either you don't shoot me at all, or you make it a good one. Trust me, just leave." then they heard police sirens and the guy took off. But he got arrested anyways b/c it was a case of domestic abuse and so his girlfriend tried to leave him and he went batshit. But since he didn't shoot her and just in the air my hubby figured he wouldn't shoot a complete stranger looking him in the face, either.
Scared the shit out of me, a) sitting scared shitless waiting for him to come home and b) hearing the story afterwards and telling him he was an idiot. But he used to live in the bad area of town and was like, 'trust me, if he looked like he would have actually shot me, i wouldn't have said that.'
idiot, regardless...