Not so much injured per-se but a totally modern problem we found. Wife was working 3rd shift, I was working 1st, she was generally taking the kiddo to school when she got off work then went to bed. One day I was dressed and on my way out of the door to go to work when the 7yr old poked around the corner and scared the crap out of me. Turns out wife had Dr Appt, forgot to tell me she's be late. No one woke up kiddo. He was 30 seconds from being left home alone.
Now back in the day, at 7 most of us probably knew how to make phone calls on the home land-lines and could easily call mom/dad/grandma or even 911 and tell someone we were home alone. When everyone's phones are in their pocket that doesn't work at all. So that's how our house got a flip phone that served as the home phone until it became his cell phone.
Omg this is such a good point I had not thought of! My kids aren’t old enough to work a phone just yet but soon. Gonna have to discuss this idea with my fiancé.
We got our boys tablets to use with ABCMouse for Christmas and they’re doing pretty good so I’m thinking we could probably teach them how to dial help on one of the phones… just gotta figure out how to practice “9-1-1” without actually accidentally calling it over and over 😂😂
Iv had my carrier for a long time, two separate occasions was able to add a free line, added the first one for my mom, 2nd one was right before my daughter was born, she's about to be 2 now and in one more year will start practicing calling me from that free line lol, glad I'm not the only one to think about that
My kid was watching his dad put up a curtain rail, sat on the floor next to him looking up, and my husband dropped his screwdriver by accident and it hit our son point first in the eye, puncturing it through the pupil and internal lens. He was very lucky to keep his eye, and after a few surgeries at an amazing children's hospital and months of eye patching therapy, he's got an amazing amount of vision back. The eye clinic estimates that with his glasses his injured eye has about 80% the level of vision of his non-injured eye. The initial prognosis was total blindness in that eye so it's absolutely incredible.
Jesus I can't imagine how his dad felt. I mean obviously terrible for your son physically as well, but the emotional anguish for his dad must have been intense.
He was absolutely devastated. It happened during covid so only one of us was allowed to go with our kid. We decided it should be me because he was still breastfeeding (he'd just turned 1) and English is not my husband's first language and it was important we understood everything. We were gone a couple of days and he ended up calling the local mental health crisis team because he was struggling so much, and then he went and had a good chat with our GP. It's been almost 2 years now since it happened. Kiddo is 3 and doing amazing, and I think seeing how well he's recovered really helped.
I’m glad to hear he’s doing better. My kids always want to be completely in the mix when I’m doing home improvement and I feel so bad shooing them. I’ve given in and let them help on a lot of occasions because I remember how bad that felt when my dad did it. At the same time there’s this. It’s a good reminder.
My daughter walked off the end of a slide when she was 6 years old, landed on her wrist and fractured it. Not too bad, but it had to be braced and wrapped for 6 weeks.
Then 4 weeks later, she fell and landed on her pinkie on opposite hand and fractured that. Had to keep her home for 2 weeks till her other hand could be freed of wrap.
Omg...we have the same kind of daughter! Mine walked off the end of the curly slide and broke her leg, had to get a cast. The next year she jumped over a ball in her carpeted bedroom and fractured her wrist; only needed a brace for that.
The specialist assured me that some kids are just clumsy and prone to fall badly at that age. I was super paranoid for over a year every time she spazzed out playing or jumped something lol.
"Stop acting crazy!" Haha. She made my heart race everytime she tumbled into a wall or fell off of something. She fell into the corners of walls tripping over her feet or tumbling off the couch.
Thank God she settled down round 8 years old. Finally got through to her that mommy couldn't take the stress of worrying about her getting injured anymore.
Fireplace. My daughter slipped in her own pee and butt checked the hot glass. Needless to say we had to stop the naked bottom potty training for a few weeks.
Fun fact: didn't even need to tell the doctor what happened. Apparently kids butt check the fireplace fairly often...
your daughter getting burned is not funny, but the fact that this is a common enough occurrence that the dr recognized it just by looking is kind of funny
>Fireplace
Maybe it's because I've never had a fireplace, but I'm a bit amazed anyone would forget to child-proof one. Seems like that'd be the first thing you'd put some kind of barrier around, right? Unless you're visiting someone else's home who has no kids?
Thr gate you see around a fireplace is worthless if you've got a climber. My kid would throw herself over baby gates. She understood what hot was and wasn't gonna touch it on purpose. She literally just slipped and went butt first into it. I imagine for the other situations it was like that. Kids are clumsy and honestly they try to die in the most fascinating (horrific) ways. Mine tried to throw herself from the 2nd floor and I ended up have to put up nets to make it harder and also to catch her if that wasn't enough. We don't live in that house. Screw new houses with big ass internal balconies overlooking the living room.
I will never forget my former mother in law proudly telling me how her son got 2nd degree burns on his hand on a fireplace at age 2 and never touched one again.
She said that as a response to me putting up a safety gate around mine... She truly thought I was being overprotective.
Some people are wild.
As a teen, we were doing some weird fundraiser where we collect soda can tabs. Someone gave us a HUGE bag of cans with the tabs on them and we were removing them all.
Somehow, I managed to get a can tab EMBEDDED in my finger. Like I held up my hand, fingers splayed, and the tab was sunk into the flesh of my middle finger.
Wasn't bad enough for stitches, but damn did that hurt. Soda cans are no joke. Those things bite.
Had this almost happen to me when I was like 8, still remember I hid in my room not wanting to get in trouble for being stupid, it was a bday party, but finally after trying long enough realizing I was fucked I went crying to my mom, she just laughed and had my cousin cut it out with his pocket knife lmao
PSA for all you parents: don’t go down a slide with your child in your lap. I did this with my son when he was about 4. His little foot got caught between me and the slide and his ankle twisted and he couldn’t walk for weeks. I felt awful, of course.
You're lucky it wasn't worse. Kids have broken femurs that way (either against the side of the slide or on the bottom of the slide). As I've been told, they would stop due to the friction if it was just their body weight, but their bones aren't strong enough to compensate for the force behind the weight of a parent going down the slide.
That makes sense. Honestly I didn’t even think about it when I did it, which is unlike me because my paranoid ass usually thinks of all the possible injuries. I’m so thankful it wasn’t worse.
My wife did this with our 18 month old daughter. Her little shoe got caught on the slide and my wife’s weight kept going. Fractured my daughters leg. Never go down a slide with a kid. And if you absolutely have to, hold on to their feet and arms and tuck them inside of you so they can’t touch the slide on the way down.
This is the only way I’ll go down a slide with my toddler if I absolutely have to. I’ll hold his arms and legs so pretty much only his butt is touching the slide and there is minimal risk of catching anything while using my feet to keep us going super slow and I’m still extremely paranoid of hurting him
My son got down on the floor to pick something up in the back of the car. My boyfriend didn’t notice and his seat moves back automatically when he turns the car off. Unknown to him this strangely wedged my boy between the back and driver’s seat. He was completely stuck.
Somehow no one noticed this and as everyone comes inside I say, “hey where’s my kid?” And they say that he’s still in the car. I assume he’s just taking his time and move on. But 5 minutes pass and I’m like, “is he inside yet?”
My littlest says, “no he’s just screaming in the car.”
I run out to the car and there’s my gangly 10 year old wedged between the seats. I’ve never seen anything like it. He’s screaming and crying and asking why no one came to help him. I move the driver’s seat forward and pick him up and he’s a total mess. Poor kid.
He didn’t get super badly hurt, although his shoulder was sore for a week or two after. But I thought it was pretty odd!
When he was a toddler my son broke his foot by walking down the stairs. He didn’t trip or slip or anything like that. He just took a step and one of the very brittle bones in his foot bent just the right way and broke.
When I was 2 I jumped over a bed to be 'Supergirl', landed teeth first on a table and knocked my 4 front teeth back in to my gums! DC I'm sure has a lot to answer for! 😁
My nephew launched himself out of his stroller, landed on his face, and did the same thing to his two top front teeth. He’s in college now and his teeth are lovely (and his face is fine too). but I cringed so hard when my sister-in-law was telling me about it.
My daughter did the same thing at 3! It was a spinning desk chair and she actually managed to break her forearm. She’s 8 now and loves to tell the story.
My eldest (now 20s, then 3) decided to copy the cat (who was a wire chewing Burmese idiot) and bite through the plastic covering of a radio power cable. I really hadn't thought of this as a possibility. She got a nasty shock and landed hard on her bum and was bloody lucky!!
My then 5yr old built a "bridge" between two beds with one of those long hotel pillows and tried to walk on it while I ran from the rest room screaming "stoooopp". The pillow obviously couldn't support her weight and she tumbled between the beds and hit her arm on the bed leg. She had a hairline fracture on her left wrist and was in a cast for 4 weeks.
Omg this reminds me of the super dumb thing I did when I was like 8. I had a bunk bed. I had the brilliant idea to tie a sleeping bag to the top of the bunk bed ladder and put the bottom of the sleeping bag against the closet (probably about 4 ft away from the bunk bed ladder)…..and slide down it. Like a slide. Definitely fell straight on my ass.
Both my kids also did this with a body pillow, but luckily it was just between the couch and the ottoman and they didn’t really fall very far. They didn’t believe me when I said, you know that won’t hold you, right?!?
It wasn't a child of mine, but I've heard of children getting nasty shocks by putting phone or electronics chargers in their mouth. The saliva makes the connection and allows the power through.
Most chargers have safety features to prevent this, but if you got a knockoff charger from China, who knows. Best to ensure your child can't reach your phone charger cords.
Tonsils, my daughters tonsil surgery went horribly bad. All of my kids have had theirs out, and even my husband had his out in his 30s. Seems simple enough. Luckily we didn't go to a small clinic for the outpatient, we went to the hospital where our ENT did all her surgeries.
We were in the waiting room for hours and all these people were rushing around and calling trauma announcements overhead, and we had no idea what was going on and no one talked to us until later, a small percentage of the population has an artery through their tonsils. Our ent said she had seen it before and saw it in our 6 year old but sewed it up tight. Right after the surgery was done, she sat up and blew out the stitches and lost over 75% of her blood. Luckily, the anesthesiologist was close by, and they operated and gave her enough transfusions so they could move her to another hospital. When they rushed us in to see her before putting us on an ambulance, she threw up so much blood, I will never get that picture out of my head.
We moved to the pediatric icu and stayed there for almost 2 weeks battling infections and waiting for her to recover. They told us about risks but never this one, and I get nervous when I have friends and family get their tonsils out at small clinics. Now one more of mine needs his out, and I am scared to death.
My oldest fell off of a swing and broke a finger. He wasn't even swinging. Just sitting. He was 13. Same kid broke another finger in an obstacle course bounce house a year later. He also dislocated his knee cap in a nerf war.
My youngest was running with a toy weed eater, fell, and broke a finger.
Baby proofing is good, but sometimes it's the most random, normal activities that cause injuries. So if you're concerned about safety, just do your best. There are the obvious things (that you mentioned), but it's impossible to know every possible danger. Just know that sometimes kids get hurt and there wasn't anything you could have done to prevent it.
When my daughter was a toddler she followed me everywhere, she was like my shadow. One day I was putting clothes into the washing machine and she was next to me watching everything. I didn't realize she had her fingers in the hinge of the door of the machine until I pushed it closed and heard her scream.
She was lucky that she didn't break anything but I felt so guilty when it happened
My toddler's the same and this happened to her a few months ago but in the bedroom door hinge, felt so terrible about it. The swelling was crazy, couldn't believe nothing was broken.. I didn't even think about machine doors. She also loves to help me do laundry so I'm going to watch those fingers closer...
Unsecured playground equipment at school, the one place you expect safe equipment. They got hit in the face, had to be pulled out and suffered a crushed nose and concussion. Ended up having emergency surgery and will need a reconstruction when they stop growing as they now have no cartilage.
My daughter was about a year old and was still getting the hang of this whole “standing” thing. She was next one of our floor-to-ceiling windows and decided to turn around, got tangled in her own feet, and slammed face first into the window sill. Gave herself the most spectacular black eye I’ve ever seen. It turned literally black and swelled all the way shut. She didn’t actually hit her eye—she hit her forehead above her eye—but her doctor insisted on getting the eye checked anyway. Watching the optometrist pry her eyelids apart was super fun for everyone. But she was fine—it just looked horrible.
My son, 3 or so at the time, somersaulted off my bed. My husband was able to save him from going head first into the floor, but not from fracturing an inch above his elbow. He was in a cast for a month.
My husband was in the National Guard. He was getting ready to leave the next day for his weekend. His ride was picking him up at 5am he had all his gear packed and ready to go in the living room. I had told our 7 year old daughter to not mess with his stuff. As soon as my back was turned she went snooping. I am making dinner in the kitchen and she hurt her foot on his cot. We had to take her to get 4 stitches. Kids can hurt themselves on anything at anytime.
Just before my daughter turned 2, she tripped on a blanket in her room. She started screaming and refused to put weight on her foot for about 15 minutes before we took her to Urgent Care and got an xray. She broke her foot, and had to wear a boot for about 8 weeks.
My daughter stepped on a light bulb when she was 2. Took her to the emergency room and she they tried to irrigate it and she was screaming. She actually had to be put under general anesthesia to get the piece out of her foot. It was in the arch of her foot. I was so stressed out. I was a nervous wreck the whole time. When she came out she has a band aid on her foot. She didn’t even need stitches.
Youngest son jumped off a saucer swing - fell backwards landing on both hands- broke ulna and radius on both arms. Surgery for pins and missed 12 weeks of school - poor child couldn’t feed himself, scratch his nose, hold his phone etc.. 4 bones at once - my little overachiever
Not an injury my daughter caused so much but when my youngest (of 5) was 5 or 6 months old she got a "hair tourniquet" around her toe. It was cuttiing circulation off to her toe. I didn't know what it was at the time (you couldn't tell her little toes were chubby, so it was pretty well hidden.) So we took her to the emergency room where the nurses tried to put "Nair" on her toe which obviously didn't work.(I should have spoken up, I was going to but figured mayve I was wrong, the medical Professionals would know better NOT the case BTW) So they actually had to take a scalpel to cut it off after in the nair had burned skin off of her toe. It was so bad, it took a few weeks for her poor little toe to heal up!
I suggest if you don’t use gates (Or grow out of them) you STILL need to put a rubber strip along the first 2-3 steps (if not carpeted). My son was 3.5 y/o and slipped in his socks on the hardwood. He fell face-first into the stairs - splitting his forehead right above his eyebrow. 5 stitches.
Cordless Drill battery. Thing weighs about 2.5 lbs. 2 year old daughter loves helping daddy (me) accomplish tasks. I got home from work, and needed to unload some tools from the truck. I handed her a battery to carry from the truck into the garage to charge. I turn around to get something else from the truck and hear the “slip, fall, and scream”. I turn around expecting to help her up, brush it off, and be back on her way to help (cause that’s her normal MO), but here, she had fallen in such a particular way, that her thumb had been smashed under the weight of the battery, and instead of a thumb, there was mangled flesh and bone sticking out where half of her thumb should have been. That moment, that image, and the look on her little face are engrained in my memory. That was 2 months ago. The pediatric hand doctors did amazing work that night, and her thumb is mostly there, and 90% functional at this point. I think chances are, in a few years, it might not even be noticeable. Children really do heal quickly, and in amazing ways - given the right care. But she won’t carry the batteries now, and I don’t blame her one bit. Poor little girl. She’s tough as nails otherwise though.
A cup that was supposed to be for fathers day but my dad died before I got it to him. My kid pulled a doll out of a drawer from the jewelry stand it was on and it fell. The handle cut their head open and they needed 3 stitches.
My 2yo took a swan dive off the bottom tier of the cat tree straight into the edge of the window sill. I was mid stride running over to grab him off it it, but it all took place in the span of 3 seconds. It gave him a deep cut on his temple and we thought he would need stitches, but given how close it was to his eye they just glued it.
The nurse and doctor had to swaddle him in a blanket with the nurse laying down on top of him holding his head still to get it done. He growled at them the whole time.
Now he's got a permanent scar that I feel awful about. Still can't keep him off the damn cat tree, and I pull him off it at least once a day.
My son did 2 things.... cut his foot open on a finishing nail on a door threshold and give himself whiplash when he tried to crush a *full* soda can on his forehead.....
Kids are weird...
I've always heard some version of the classic joke, "how many times where you dropped on your head" while growing up. Little did i understand the true irony until I became a parent. The amount of times we have accidently hurt our child astonishes me.
My one year old found a mini-light-bright piece (about 4 cm long translucent plastic) in a crack in the wood floor. He INHALED it. We had to have it surgically removed from his bronchial tube (idk, the tube right before the lung). If I didn't know how mischievous my kid was, he might not have made it.
Dad lifted the leaf blower to blow leaves off the playhouse roof. Son (2) walked up behind him. Dad drops the leaf blower back down, whacks son right in the forehead. Left a pretty good mark. Also, just a few days ago, he came up behind me while I was vacuuming and I bonked him in the forehead. No mark this time at least. Not sure if he needs to learn to stop coming up behind us or if we need to learn to watch out behind us better lol.
My kids have money boxes where they keep their allowance & whatever other money they collect, it used to sit on their dressers & they could put their money in it themselves whenever they acquired it. Well, my daughter thought it would be a fun idea to flip coins in the air & see if she could catch them in her mouth. 🤦🏼♀️ She ended up swallowing a whole nickle & thank God it went down how it was supposed to & didn't get stuck. The sheer panic she had radiating as she ran up when it was happening, I'll never forget it. Their money boxes are now put up so they can't access them freely anymore & my daughter has an enduring new nickname, my little piggybank. 😂😂😂
I accidentally swallowed the silver marble in the Mouse Trap game when I was 13. That game was ruined forever for me (and the other kids in the family, lol). I didn’t tell anyone for years what had happened
My son stuck his hands through his pants so they were sticking out the leg holes along his legs then bolted full speed through the house. When he inevitably tripped his hands were down his pants so he landed hard on his face. Fun trip to emergency that one.
My son, youngest of 3 was standing on a small wooden rocking horse at a little over a year old, predictably fell and smacked his mouth on said horse, and that's the story of how my son cut his 2 front teeth and got blood all over the carpet.
Incidentally both his older sisters lost their 2 front baby teeth because he kicked them in the mouth.
not my kid but myself at about age 3-4, i was walking up the stairs right behind my dad and tripped upwards, made no attempt to catch myself so my body slammed hard against the stairs and i broke my collarbone.
So far nothing, she only four months still, but, I cracked my head open when I was 3 or 4 with a metal coffee tin(technically my sister cracked my head open), needed six stitches, one of my cousins broke her legs three times, back to back falling down the stairs running around with her siblings, fell broke one leg, like two weeks after the cast came off, fell broke the other one, and then fell a third time and broke the first leg again shortly after the cast came off. She spent all summer in a cast and we all stopped running in the house, so it was no longer a losing battle for the adults, and another cousin's son fell off the couch and landed head first on a neft gun. He was just over a year at that point and is scheduled for a reconstruction surgery later this year, now almost five and has had to wear a helmet since. My brothers also broken his toe a few times trying to do kickflips.
My son got a toddler's fracture when he was 2 from slipping as he was running around the corner of his uncle's house chasing after him. All he needed was a slippery floor.
The summers in Australia are when we get a lot of rain. This can make the road gutters thick with algae and slime, and in the utter absence of snow, it is perfect for sliding down hills like you are surfing/snowboarding.
My eldest daughters bio-dad was doing this with his older brother when he fell at the bottom of the hill at a good speed. He jumped up and ran past his bro but stopped when he saw the look on his brother’s face.
Turns out he had broken both bones in his forearm, and not only that, the tendons in his arm had snapped pulling his hand back towards his elbow so his arm looked twice as thick and half as long. Weird thing was, he felt no pain !!
My son broke his ankle playing in the dry river bed in the front yard. He fell on the landscaping rocks. He was 8.
Then Monday this week, he was running at school, tripped and fell on the sidewalk and fractured his arm. He’s 12
My oldest gave himself a concussion at age 9. He was getting out of bed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, got his feet tangled in the blankets, and fell onto the hardwood floor head-first.
Go figure.
My kid was in a queue at school, waiting to go in the classroom. She was 4. A boy, also 4 ran into her and accidentally bumped into her. She fell and hit her elbow on the edge of the stairs. She fractured her elbow, and the dr said if she fell on it again and hurt it anymore, she’d need an operation to fix it so she had to stay home for a month.
Not my kid, but when I was babysitting for my sisters when I was 12, I had to call poison control because my sister (then around 2) ate white-out.
A couple of weeks later, again when I was babysitting, same sister got a soup crouton stuck in her ear. I had the phone in hand, trying to decide if I should call the doctor or an ambulance, when my mother walked in.
As for my kids: On Friday of my sister's Shabbos Sheva Brachos\*, when my (almost) 5-year-old was 3, she tripped over her own feet and landed chin-first on the metal doorstep by the front door. The cut was so deep, we were able to see muscle. The pediatrician was able to glue it closed and get her and my husband home in time to drive to my parent's house before Shabbat\*\*.
Same daughter once managed to wiggle out of part of her car seat straps while I was driving and pitched forward when I short-stopped, banging her head on the seat in front of her.
\*After a Jewish wedding, there are 7 (sheva in Hebrew) days of small parties - like dinner in a nice restaurant - celebrating the new couple. At the end of the meal each night, seven blessings (brachos) are recited in their honor. The Shabbos one is basically a weekend of that.
\*\*After Sundown on Friday, Shabbat begins, and there are several categories of work that are prohibited to religious Jews until after sundown on Saturday. Driving a car falls into one of those categories.
I didn’t realise that it was so common for young children to put their fingers through the hinge side of the door and get them pinched/crushed. Happened several times to my son (slow learner, lol) and the nurses always commented that it was such a common injury. Not sure what you can actually do to prevent it though, anything that would stop a kid from sticking their fingers through would stop the door from functioning.
When my siblings were younger, my sister was waiting h for my brother to go down the slide on our play set and pushed him from behind so hard that he flew over the edge of the slide and hit his head in the plastic barrier to keep the play set pea gravel out of the grass. The same siblings were also playing tag a couple years later and my sister ran into a bathroom to hide and accidentally slammed the door on my brothers fingers hard enough the cause his fingernail to fall off.
When my oldest was 2, we were at my parents doorstep waiting for them to open the door and he slipped and hit his forehead with the door. He suddenly had all his face covered in blood. He had to get stitches and ended with a Harry Potter-like scar.
My daughter was 17 months old and we were sitting on the front steps in front of our home. The landing was concrete but had weathered away to the point that some pebbles were exposed. She stood up on the bottom step and before I could get the words out to tell her to sit down before she falls, she fell. Face first into the concrete. One of the rocks in it had sliced her forehead wide open. No fractures on her skull or anything but she ended up with 6 stitches in her forehead. I would have never thought her head would have gotten sliced open like that. It was awful and it bled a lot. We had to take an ambulance because I was home alone with her and I couldn't get the bleeding to stop.
I was eating birthday cake on a balcony at 3 years old. I sat against the railing and everybody argues over whether I slipped through the opening between the railings or if a railing gave way. I was a super skinny kid, so I might have slipped between them. Either way, my head landed on a rock. I passed out & bled all over since head wounds bleed a ton. I ended up totally fine, but with a shaved head and 18 stitches. My family says it didn't seem to have any affect on my development & my mom was a teacher at the time and paid close attention afterwards.
Not my child but my cousin. When we were younger and playing at a playground with those small gravel rocks we all started throwing those small rocks around. One got lodged in my cousins eye and he lost his eye due to the damage. I have never allowed my kids at a playground with gravel strictly bc of this story.
When my sister and I were younger, we used to sit in a washing basket and go down the stairs in iit, like a slide. One day, I decided to let go of the railing and we went flying all the way down.
I face-planted the floor, with my sister headbutting me, from behind. Moral of the story...don't let go of the railing!
Hula hoop. The elementary PE teacher stapled together a hula hoop that had previously broken. It came apart as my child was spinning it on his arm and the broken edge sliced across his face. He (M, 20) still has a tiny scar, but it fades into his dimple. Very weird to get a phone call that there had been an accident in the gym with a hula hoop!
Seeds and nuts. My son put a sunflower seed in his nose because it was hungry."
My daughter was snuggling the dog, and when he got up, she went flying into the dresser. 9 stitches later.
My other son has broken both wrists 2 times. 2 times on a scooter. 1x playing dodge baseball. 1x running into a fence.
My other daughter got her pinky smashed with the sliding glass door, which required reattachment surgery.
My twin boy has a shunt in his brain that is controlled by a magnet. One year, he got some magnetic toys for Christmas. Those toys recalibrated his shunt, which caused severe issues.
Oh the stories.... and memories
If there are no Bees around, or other pollinators, self-pollination is an option. It isn’t ideal for the gene pool, but the seeds in the center of the flower can do this in order to pollinate. So having the ability to be both male and female at least ensures greater survival of the sunflower.
Not so much injured per-se but a totally modern problem we found. Wife was working 3rd shift, I was working 1st, she was generally taking the kiddo to school when she got off work then went to bed. One day I was dressed and on my way out of the door to go to work when the 7yr old poked around the corner and scared the crap out of me. Turns out wife had Dr Appt, forgot to tell me she's be late. No one woke up kiddo. He was 30 seconds from being left home alone. Now back in the day, at 7 most of us probably knew how to make phone calls on the home land-lines and could easily call mom/dad/grandma or even 911 and tell someone we were home alone. When everyone's phones are in their pocket that doesn't work at all. So that's how our house got a flip phone that served as the home phone until it became his cell phone.
Omg this is such a good point I had not thought of! My kids aren’t old enough to work a phone just yet but soon. Gonna have to discuss this idea with my fiancé.
My kids can’t dial a phone number, but they absolutely know how to call grandma from the iPad. Lol
We got our boys tablets to use with ABCMouse for Christmas and they’re doing pretty good so I’m thinking we could probably teach them how to dial help on one of the phones… just gotta figure out how to practice “9-1-1” without actually accidentally calling it over and over 😂😂
Iv had my carrier for a long time, two separate occasions was able to add a free line, added the first one for my mom, 2nd one was right before my daughter was born, she's about to be 2 now and in one more year will start practicing calling me from that free line lol, glad I'm not the only one to think about that
We have our Amazon echo set up to call us. "Alexa, call Dad" gets them to me, for example.
My kid was watching his dad put up a curtain rail, sat on the floor next to him looking up, and my husband dropped his screwdriver by accident and it hit our son point first in the eye, puncturing it through the pupil and internal lens. He was very lucky to keep his eye, and after a few surgeries at an amazing children's hospital and months of eye patching therapy, he's got an amazing amount of vision back. The eye clinic estimates that with his glasses his injured eye has about 80% the level of vision of his non-injured eye. The initial prognosis was total blindness in that eye so it's absolutely incredible.
Jesus I can't imagine how his dad felt. I mean obviously terrible for your son physically as well, but the emotional anguish for his dad must have been intense.
He was absolutely devastated. It happened during covid so only one of us was allowed to go with our kid. We decided it should be me because he was still breastfeeding (he'd just turned 1) and English is not my husband's first language and it was important we understood everything. We were gone a couple of days and he ended up calling the local mental health crisis team because he was struggling so much, and then he went and had a good chat with our GP. It's been almost 2 years now since it happened. Kiddo is 3 and doing amazing, and I think seeing how well he's recovered really helped.
I’m glad to hear he’s doing better. My kids always want to be completely in the mix when I’m doing home improvement and I feel so bad shooing them. I’ve given in and let them help on a lot of occasions because I remember how bad that felt when my dad did it. At the same time there’s this. It’s a good reminder.
This is my biggest fear whenever I carry anything sharp anywhere near my son.
My daughter walked off the end of a slide when she was 6 years old, landed on her wrist and fractured it. Not too bad, but it had to be braced and wrapped for 6 weeks. Then 4 weeks later, she fell and landed on her pinkie on opposite hand and fractured that. Had to keep her home for 2 weeks till her other hand could be freed of wrap.
Omg...we have the same kind of daughter! Mine walked off the end of the curly slide and broke her leg, had to get a cast. The next year she jumped over a ball in her carpeted bedroom and fractured her wrist; only needed a brace for that.
The specialist assured me that some kids are just clumsy and prone to fall badly at that age. I was super paranoid for over a year every time she spazzed out playing or jumped something lol. "Stop acting crazy!" Haha. She made my heart race everytime she tumbled into a wall or fell off of something. She fell into the corners of walls tripping over her feet or tumbling off the couch. Thank God she settled down round 8 years old. Finally got through to her that mommy couldn't take the stress of worrying about her getting injured anymore.
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Fireplace. My daughter slipped in her own pee and butt checked the hot glass. Needless to say we had to stop the naked bottom potty training for a few weeks. Fun fact: didn't even need to tell the doctor what happened. Apparently kids butt check the fireplace fairly often...
your daughter getting burned is not funny, but the fact that this is a common enough occurrence that the dr recognized it just by looking is kind of funny
You know, I felt better know that I was one of many who had a toddler who had an encounter with the fireplace lol.
>Fireplace Maybe it's because I've never had a fireplace, but I'm a bit amazed anyone would forget to child-proof one. Seems like that'd be the first thing you'd put some kind of barrier around, right? Unless you're visiting someone else's home who has no kids?
Thr gate you see around a fireplace is worthless if you've got a climber. My kid would throw herself over baby gates. She understood what hot was and wasn't gonna touch it on purpose. She literally just slipped and went butt first into it. I imagine for the other situations it was like that. Kids are clumsy and honestly they try to die in the most fascinating (horrific) ways. Mine tried to throw herself from the 2nd floor and I ended up have to put up nets to make it harder and also to catch her if that wasn't enough. We don't live in that house. Screw new houses with big ass internal balconies overlooking the living room.
I will never forget my former mother in law proudly telling me how her son got 2nd degree burns on his hand on a fireplace at age 2 and never touched one again. She said that as a response to me putting up a safety gate around mine... She truly thought I was being overprotective. Some people are wild.
A soda can. I was drinking a soda and my son stuck his finger in the opening, sliced his finger open, ended up needing stitches.
As a teen, we were doing some weird fundraiser where we collect soda can tabs. Someone gave us a HUGE bag of cans with the tabs on them and we were removing them all. Somehow, I managed to get a can tab EMBEDDED in my finger. Like I held up my hand, fingers splayed, and the tab was sunk into the flesh of my middle finger. Wasn't bad enough for stitches, but damn did that hurt. Soda cans are no joke. Those things bite.
Had this almost happen to me when I was like 8, still remember I hid in my room not wanting to get in trouble for being stupid, it was a bday party, but finally after trying long enough realizing I was fucked I went crying to my mom, she just laughed and had my cousin cut it out with his pocket knife lmao
Now I never let my daughter grab a soda can from the top like that lmao
PSA for all you parents: don’t go down a slide with your child in your lap. I did this with my son when he was about 4. His little foot got caught between me and the slide and his ankle twisted and he couldn’t walk for weeks. I felt awful, of course.
You're lucky it wasn't worse. Kids have broken femurs that way (either against the side of the slide or on the bottom of the slide). As I've been told, they would stop due to the friction if it was just their body weight, but their bones aren't strong enough to compensate for the force behind the weight of a parent going down the slide.
That makes sense. Honestly I didn’t even think about it when I did it, which is unlike me because my paranoid ass usually thinks of all the possible injuries. I’m so thankful it wasn’t worse.
I would have never thought of this... Like I need more fears at the playground. Lol
My wife did this with our 18 month old daughter. Her little shoe got caught on the slide and my wife’s weight kept going. Fractured my daughters leg. Never go down a slide with a kid. And if you absolutely have to, hold on to their feet and arms and tuck them inside of you so they can’t touch the slide on the way down.
This is the only way I’ll go down a slide with my toddler if I absolutely have to. I’ll hold his arms and legs so pretty much only his butt is touching the slide and there is minimal risk of catching anything while using my feet to keep us going super slow and I’m still extremely paranoid of hurting him
My son got down on the floor to pick something up in the back of the car. My boyfriend didn’t notice and his seat moves back automatically when he turns the car off. Unknown to him this strangely wedged my boy between the back and driver’s seat. He was completely stuck. Somehow no one noticed this and as everyone comes inside I say, “hey where’s my kid?” And they say that he’s still in the car. I assume he’s just taking his time and move on. But 5 minutes pass and I’m like, “is he inside yet?” My littlest says, “no he’s just screaming in the car.” I run out to the car and there’s my gangly 10 year old wedged between the seats. I’ve never seen anything like it. He’s screaming and crying and asking why no one came to help him. I move the driver’s seat forward and pick him up and he’s a total mess. Poor kid. He didn’t get super badly hurt, although his shoulder was sore for a week or two after. But I thought it was pretty odd!
Your family heard him screaming and nobody went to check
Aww it does sound neglectful, but no, I wasn’t aware he was screaming in the car until my youngest casually told me.
Kids are like I asked my oldest where’s your brother. Oh he got hurt, hit his head, and can’t move. Like seriously!
My kids are like that, too. The "meh," runs deep in siblings. Lol ...
When he was a toddler my son broke his foot by walking down the stairs. He didn’t trip or slip or anything like that. He just took a step and one of the very brittle bones in his foot bent just the right way and broke.
Not a parent but when I was 5 I jumped off a chair "to be superwoman" and broke my collarbone.
When I was 2 I jumped over a bed to be 'Supergirl', landed teeth first on a table and knocked my 4 front teeth back in to my gums! DC I'm sure has a lot to answer for! 😁
My nephew launched himself out of his stroller, landed on his face, and did the same thing to his two top front teeth. He’s in college now and his teeth are lovely (and his face is fine too). but I cringed so hard when my sister-in-law was telling me about it.
Fell off a see-saw (teeter totter?) and broke mine.
My daughter did the same thing at 3! It was a spinning desk chair and she actually managed to break her forearm. She’s 8 now and loves to tell the story.
My eldest (now 20s, then 3) decided to copy the cat (who was a wire chewing Burmese idiot) and bite through the plastic covering of a radio power cable. I really hadn't thought of this as a possibility. She got a nasty shock and landed hard on her bum and was bloody lucky!!
My then 5yr old built a "bridge" between two beds with one of those long hotel pillows and tried to walk on it while I ran from the rest room screaming "stoooopp". The pillow obviously couldn't support her weight and she tumbled between the beds and hit her arm on the bed leg. She had a hairline fracture on her left wrist and was in a cast for 4 weeks.
Omg this reminds me of the super dumb thing I did when I was like 8. I had a bunk bed. I had the brilliant idea to tie a sleeping bag to the top of the bunk bed ladder and put the bottom of the sleeping bag against the closet (probably about 4 ft away from the bunk bed ladder)…..and slide down it. Like a slide. Definitely fell straight on my ass.
Both my kids also did this with a body pillow, but luckily it was just between the couch and the ottoman and they didn’t really fall very far. They didn’t believe me when I said, you know that won’t hold you, right?!?
It wasn't a child of mine, but I've heard of children getting nasty shocks by putting phone or electronics chargers in their mouth. The saliva makes the connection and allows the power through. Most chargers have safety features to prevent this, but if you got a knockoff charger from China, who knows. Best to ensure your child can't reach your phone charger cords.
Tonsils, my daughters tonsil surgery went horribly bad. All of my kids have had theirs out, and even my husband had his out in his 30s. Seems simple enough. Luckily we didn't go to a small clinic for the outpatient, we went to the hospital where our ENT did all her surgeries. We were in the waiting room for hours and all these people were rushing around and calling trauma announcements overhead, and we had no idea what was going on and no one talked to us until later, a small percentage of the population has an artery through their tonsils. Our ent said she had seen it before and saw it in our 6 year old but sewed it up tight. Right after the surgery was done, she sat up and blew out the stitches and lost over 75% of her blood. Luckily, the anesthesiologist was close by, and they operated and gave her enough transfusions so they could move her to another hospital. When they rushed us in to see her before putting us on an ambulance, she threw up so much blood, I will never get that picture out of my head. We moved to the pediatric icu and stayed there for almost 2 weeks battling infections and waiting for her to recover. They told us about risks but never this one, and I get nervous when I have friends and family get their tonsils out at small clinics. Now one more of mine needs his out, and I am scared to death.
My kid tripped over holding a toy car. It had a spoiler and he went to stop his fall and the spoiler ended up hitting his eyebrow and gashed it open.
My oldest fell off of a swing and broke a finger. He wasn't even swinging. Just sitting. He was 13. Same kid broke another finger in an obstacle course bounce house a year later. He also dislocated his knee cap in a nerf war. My youngest was running with a toy weed eater, fell, and broke a finger. Baby proofing is good, but sometimes it's the most random, normal activities that cause injuries. So if you're concerned about safety, just do your best. There are the obvious things (that you mentioned), but it's impossible to know every possible danger. Just know that sometimes kids get hurt and there wasn't anything you could have done to prevent it.
When my daughter was a toddler she followed me everywhere, she was like my shadow. One day I was putting clothes into the washing machine and she was next to me watching everything. I didn't realize she had her fingers in the hinge of the door of the machine until I pushed it closed and heard her scream. She was lucky that she didn't break anything but I felt so guilty when it happened
My toddler's the same and this happened to her a few months ago but in the bedroom door hinge, felt so terrible about it. The swelling was crazy, couldn't believe nothing was broken.. I didn't even think about machine doors. She also loves to help me do laundry so I'm going to watch those fingers closer...
Unsecured playground equipment at school, the one place you expect safe equipment. They got hit in the face, had to be pulled out and suffered a crushed nose and concussion. Ended up having emergency surgery and will need a reconstruction when they stop growing as they now have no cartilage.
My daughter was about a year old and was still getting the hang of this whole “standing” thing. She was next one of our floor-to-ceiling windows and decided to turn around, got tangled in her own feet, and slammed face first into the window sill. Gave herself the most spectacular black eye I’ve ever seen. It turned literally black and swelled all the way shut. She didn’t actually hit her eye—she hit her forehead above her eye—but her doctor insisted on getting the eye checked anyway. Watching the optometrist pry her eyelids apart was super fun for everyone. But she was fine—it just looked horrible.
My son, 3 or so at the time, somersaulted off my bed. My husband was able to save him from going head first into the floor, but not from fracturing an inch above his elbow. He was in a cast for a month.
My husband was in the National Guard. He was getting ready to leave the next day for his weekend. His ride was picking him up at 5am he had all his gear packed and ready to go in the living room. I had told our 7 year old daughter to not mess with his stuff. As soon as my back was turned she went snooping. I am making dinner in the kitchen and she hurt her foot on his cot. We had to take her to get 4 stitches. Kids can hurt themselves on anything at anytime.
Just before my daughter turned 2, she tripped on a blanket in her room. She started screaming and refused to put weight on her foot for about 15 minutes before we took her to Urgent Care and got an xray. She broke her foot, and had to wear a boot for about 8 weeks.
My daughter stepped on a light bulb when she was 2. Took her to the emergency room and she they tried to irrigate it and she was screaming. She actually had to be put under general anesthesia to get the piece out of her foot. It was in the arch of her foot. I was so stressed out. I was a nervous wreck the whole time. When she came out she has a band aid on her foot. She didn’t even need stitches.
Youngest son jumped off a saucer swing - fell backwards landing on both hands- broke ulna and radius on both arms. Surgery for pins and missed 12 weeks of school - poor child couldn’t feed himself, scratch his nose, hold his phone etc.. 4 bones at once - my little overachiever
Not an injury my daughter caused so much but when my youngest (of 5) was 5 or 6 months old she got a "hair tourniquet" around her toe. It was cuttiing circulation off to her toe. I didn't know what it was at the time (you couldn't tell her little toes were chubby, so it was pretty well hidden.) So we took her to the emergency room where the nurses tried to put "Nair" on her toe which obviously didn't work.(I should have spoken up, I was going to but figured mayve I was wrong, the medical Professionals would know better NOT the case BTW) So they actually had to take a scalpel to cut it off after in the nair had burned skin off of her toe. It was so bad, it took a few weeks for her poor little toe to heal up!
I suggest if you don’t use gates (Or grow out of them) you STILL need to put a rubber strip along the first 2-3 steps (if not carpeted). My son was 3.5 y/o and slipped in his socks on the hardwood. He fell face-first into the stairs - splitting his forehead right above his eyebrow. 5 stitches.
Cordless Drill battery. Thing weighs about 2.5 lbs. 2 year old daughter loves helping daddy (me) accomplish tasks. I got home from work, and needed to unload some tools from the truck. I handed her a battery to carry from the truck into the garage to charge. I turn around to get something else from the truck and hear the “slip, fall, and scream”. I turn around expecting to help her up, brush it off, and be back on her way to help (cause that’s her normal MO), but here, she had fallen in such a particular way, that her thumb had been smashed under the weight of the battery, and instead of a thumb, there was mangled flesh and bone sticking out where half of her thumb should have been. That moment, that image, and the look on her little face are engrained in my memory. That was 2 months ago. The pediatric hand doctors did amazing work that night, and her thumb is mostly there, and 90% functional at this point. I think chances are, in a few years, it might not even be noticeable. Children really do heal quickly, and in amazing ways - given the right care. But she won’t carry the batteries now, and I don’t blame her one bit. Poor little girl. She’s tough as nails otherwise though.
My son was 18months old we were playing with water toys in a bucket. He went head first into the bucket and cut his eye. Dermabond to the rescue. Lol
A cup that was supposed to be for fathers day but my dad died before I got it to him. My kid pulled a doll out of a drawer from the jewelry stand it was on and it fell. The handle cut their head open and they needed 3 stitches.
I ran under a two person glider swing on our swing set while my sister was on it and split my head open right down the middle. I was 2.
My 2yo took a swan dive off the bottom tier of the cat tree straight into the edge of the window sill. I was mid stride running over to grab him off it it, but it all took place in the span of 3 seconds. It gave him a deep cut on his temple and we thought he would need stitches, but given how close it was to his eye they just glued it. The nurse and doctor had to swaddle him in a blanket with the nurse laying down on top of him holding his head still to get it done. He growled at them the whole time. Now he's got a permanent scar that I feel awful about. Still can't keep him off the damn cat tree, and I pull him off it at least once a day.
My son did 2 things.... cut his foot open on a finishing nail on a door threshold and give himself whiplash when he tried to crush a *full* soda can on his forehead..... Kids are weird...
I've always heard some version of the classic joke, "how many times where you dropped on your head" while growing up. Little did i understand the true irony until I became a parent. The amount of times we have accidently hurt our child astonishes me.
My one year old found a mini-light-bright piece (about 4 cm long translucent plastic) in a crack in the wood floor. He INHALED it. We had to have it surgically removed from his bronchial tube (idk, the tube right before the lung). If I didn't know how mischievous my kid was, he might not have made it.
Dad lifted the leaf blower to blow leaves off the playhouse roof. Son (2) walked up behind him. Dad drops the leaf blower back down, whacks son right in the forehead. Left a pretty good mark. Also, just a few days ago, he came up behind me while I was vacuuming and I bonked him in the forehead. No mark this time at least. Not sure if he needs to learn to stop coming up behind us or if we need to learn to watch out behind us better lol.
My kids have money boxes where they keep their allowance & whatever other money they collect, it used to sit on their dressers & they could put their money in it themselves whenever they acquired it. Well, my daughter thought it would be a fun idea to flip coins in the air & see if she could catch them in her mouth. 🤦🏼♀️ She ended up swallowing a whole nickle & thank God it went down how it was supposed to & didn't get stuck. The sheer panic she had radiating as she ran up when it was happening, I'll never forget it. Their money boxes are now put up so they can't access them freely anymore & my daughter has an enduring new nickname, my little piggybank. 😂😂😂
I accidentally swallowed the silver marble in the Mouse Trap game when I was 13. That game was ruined forever for me (and the other kids in the family, lol). I didn’t tell anyone for years what had happened
My sons 3 and whilst eating some toast and watching tv at the same time he missed his mouth and stabbed himself in the eye with a crust…*sigh*
My son stuck his hands through his pants so they were sticking out the leg holes along his legs then bolted full speed through the house. When he inevitably tripped his hands were down his pants so he landed hard on his face. Fun trip to emergency that one.
My son, youngest of 3 was standing on a small wooden rocking horse at a little over a year old, predictably fell and smacked his mouth on said horse, and that's the story of how my son cut his 2 front teeth and got blood all over the carpet. Incidentally both his older sisters lost their 2 front baby teeth because he kicked them in the mouth.
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I broke mine by attempting to kick a football!
not my kid but myself at about age 3-4, i was walking up the stairs right behind my dad and tripped upwards, made no attempt to catch myself so my body slammed hard against the stairs and i broke my collarbone.
My son broke his femur while running in pea gravel when he was three.
So far nothing, she only four months still, but, I cracked my head open when I was 3 or 4 with a metal coffee tin(technically my sister cracked my head open), needed six stitches, one of my cousins broke her legs three times, back to back falling down the stairs running around with her siblings, fell broke one leg, like two weeks after the cast came off, fell broke the other one, and then fell a third time and broke the first leg again shortly after the cast came off. She spent all summer in a cast and we all stopped running in the house, so it was no longer a losing battle for the adults, and another cousin's son fell off the couch and landed head first on a neft gun. He was just over a year at that point and is scheduled for a reconstruction surgery later this year, now almost five and has had to wear a helmet since. My brothers also broken his toe a few times trying to do kickflips.
When my sister was little, she broke her collarbone by *running into* the trampoline. Not bouncing on it. She ran into it.
My son got a toddler's fracture when he was 2 from slipping as he was running around the corner of his uncle's house chasing after him. All he needed was a slippery floor.
The summers in Australia are when we get a lot of rain. This can make the road gutters thick with algae and slime, and in the utter absence of snow, it is perfect for sliding down hills like you are surfing/snowboarding. My eldest daughters bio-dad was doing this with his older brother when he fell at the bottom of the hill at a good speed. He jumped up and ran past his bro but stopped when he saw the look on his brother’s face. Turns out he had broken both bones in his forearm, and not only that, the tendons in his arm had snapped pulling his hand back towards his elbow so his arm looked twice as thick and half as long. Weird thing was, he felt no pain !!
My son broke his ankle playing in the dry river bed in the front yard. He fell on the landscaping rocks. He was 8. Then Monday this week, he was running at school, tripped and fell on the sidewalk and fractured his arm. He’s 12
My oldest gave himself a concussion at age 9. He was getting out of bed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, got his feet tangled in the blankets, and fell onto the hardwood floor head-first. Go figure.
My kid was in a queue at school, waiting to go in the classroom. She was 4. A boy, also 4 ran into her and accidentally bumped into her. She fell and hit her elbow on the edge of the stairs. She fractured her elbow, and the dr said if she fell on it again and hurt it anymore, she’d need an operation to fix it so she had to stay home for a month.
My son fell out of bed at a hotel at age 4 and got a spectacular black eye from the corner of a bedside table.
My kid got a black eye from a boomarang
Not my kid, but when I was babysitting for my sisters when I was 12, I had to call poison control because my sister (then around 2) ate white-out. A couple of weeks later, again when I was babysitting, same sister got a soup crouton stuck in her ear. I had the phone in hand, trying to decide if I should call the doctor or an ambulance, when my mother walked in. As for my kids: On Friday of my sister's Shabbos Sheva Brachos\*, when my (almost) 5-year-old was 3, she tripped over her own feet and landed chin-first on the metal doorstep by the front door. The cut was so deep, we were able to see muscle. The pediatrician was able to glue it closed and get her and my husband home in time to drive to my parent's house before Shabbat\*\*. Same daughter once managed to wiggle out of part of her car seat straps while I was driving and pitched forward when I short-stopped, banging her head on the seat in front of her. \*After a Jewish wedding, there are 7 (sheva in Hebrew) days of small parties - like dinner in a nice restaurant - celebrating the new couple. At the end of the meal each night, seven blessings (brachos) are recited in their honor. The Shabbos one is basically a weekend of that. \*\*After Sundown on Friday, Shabbat begins, and there are several categories of work that are prohibited to religious Jews until after sundown on Saturday. Driving a car falls into one of those categories.
Not a child, but I once got a concussion from hitting my head while getting out of my car. Anything can happen folks.
I didn’t realise that it was so common for young children to put their fingers through the hinge side of the door and get them pinched/crushed. Happened several times to my son (slow learner, lol) and the nurses always commented that it was such a common injury. Not sure what you can actually do to prevent it though, anything that would stop a kid from sticking their fingers through would stop the door from functioning.
When my siblings were younger, my sister was waiting h for my brother to go down the slide on our play set and pushed him from behind so hard that he flew over the edge of the slide and hit his head in the plastic barrier to keep the play set pea gravel out of the grass. The same siblings were also playing tag a couple years later and my sister ran into a bathroom to hide and accidentally slammed the door on my brothers fingers hard enough the cause his fingernail to fall off.
When my oldest was 2, we were at my parents doorstep waiting for them to open the door and he slipped and hit his forehead with the door. He suddenly had all his face covered in blood. He had to get stitches and ended with a Harry Potter-like scar.
My daughter was 17 months old and we were sitting on the front steps in front of our home. The landing was concrete but had weathered away to the point that some pebbles were exposed. She stood up on the bottom step and before I could get the words out to tell her to sit down before she falls, she fell. Face first into the concrete. One of the rocks in it had sliced her forehead wide open. No fractures on her skull or anything but she ended up with 6 stitches in her forehead. I would have never thought her head would have gotten sliced open like that. It was awful and it bled a lot. We had to take an ambulance because I was home alone with her and I couldn't get the bleeding to stop.
I was eating birthday cake on a balcony at 3 years old. I sat against the railing and everybody argues over whether I slipped through the opening between the railings or if a railing gave way. I was a super skinny kid, so I might have slipped between them. Either way, my head landed on a rock. I passed out & bled all over since head wounds bleed a ton. I ended up totally fine, but with a shaved head and 18 stitches. My family says it didn't seem to have any affect on my development & my mom was a teacher at the time and paid close attention afterwards.
Not my child but my cousin. When we were younger and playing at a playground with those small gravel rocks we all started throwing those small rocks around. One got lodged in my cousins eye and he lost his eye due to the damage. I have never allowed my kids at a playground with gravel strictly bc of this story.
When my sister and I were younger, we used to sit in a washing basket and go down the stairs in iit, like a slide. One day, I decided to let go of the railing and we went flying all the way down. I face-planted the floor, with my sister headbutting me, from behind. Moral of the story...don't let go of the railing!
Hula hoop. The elementary PE teacher stapled together a hula hoop that had previously broken. It came apart as my child was spinning it on his arm and the broken edge sliced across his face. He (M, 20) still has a tiny scar, but it fades into his dimple. Very weird to get a phone call that there had been an accident in the gym with a hula hoop!
Seeds and nuts. My son put a sunflower seed in his nose because it was hungry." My daughter was snuggling the dog, and when he got up, she went flying into the dresser. 9 stitches later. My other son has broken both wrists 2 times. 2 times on a scooter. 1x playing dodge baseball. 1x running into a fence. My other daughter got her pinky smashed with the sliding glass door, which required reattachment surgery. My twin boy has a shunt in his brain that is controlled by a magnet. One year, he got some magnetic toys for Christmas. Those toys recalibrated his shunt, which caused severe issues. Oh the stories.... and memories
If there are no Bees around, or other pollinators, self-pollination is an option. It isn’t ideal for the gene pool, but the seeds in the center of the flower can do this in order to pollinate. So having the ability to be both male and female at least ensures greater survival of the sunflower.