Did you know that blowing on the wrong end of a pipette will burn your tongue even if it isn't red hot?
Learning experience.
Now THOSE were good presents! Any kid worth his salt would be frantically mixing things together, trying to get something that could blow up!
Hahahaha...every time I did it, I ended up with test tubes full of muddy looking liquid that never did anything.
And then the microscopes. I always seemed to destroy the glass slides by crunching them with the optical unit! At some point, I recall they stopped putting glass slides in those microscope kits.
I was a chemistry major back in the day when they were right on the cusp of still teaching people how to mouth-pipette! (I got into medicine a few years before they started making everyone wear gloves, too...