AIO? My son broke a lamp containing quicksilver and I yelled at my family to leave the room.
My husband (39M), my kids (4M & 2M) and I (38F) were in the living room this morning. My 4-year-old son knocked an old light bulb from a shelf and it broke. I heard that some old energy saving light bulbs contain quicksilver therefore I said to my husband: "Be careful, it might contain quicksilver", while he was getting a broom to clean up the glass pieces. My 4-year-old wanted to get to the pieces and I held him off which resulted in him crying.
Simultaneously, my 2-year old who currently suffers from stomach aches started crying as well because I wouldn't let him walk through the danger zone. At the same time I tried to find out if that light bulb type really contains quicksilver.
After two minutes of searching while I kept the kids of the site of the accident while my husband was in the kitchen, disposing the shards to the garbage, I found out that the lightbulb indeed was containing quicksilver and that you should leave the room immediately and open the windows to get rid of the fumes.
So I told my husband to take the kids upstairs because the lightbulb contains quicksilver and proceeded to open the windows. After I opened the windows 8 came to see that my husband had _not_ vacated the room but was waiting at the feet of the stairs and started to argue with me if it was really that dangerous. At that point I repeated myself to get upstairs and after they still wouldn't move I yelled at them and carried my crying 4-year old up the stairs. Did I overreact?
My reasoning is: I didn't know how dangerous it was, but I thought googling it while everyone was breathing in quicksilver fumes was probably not the best idea so I wanted to get everybody out of the room as quickly as possible and then read up upon it. My husband thinks I'm overreacting and thinks I should've asked him again in a more calmly manner to get the kids upstairs instead.