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 Posted: 02/01/05 - 01:40 Post subject: Parenting101 Screw-up Part 131
I told Little Nole #3 at least 5 times not to take diving jumps into the couch this evening. Of course, the great listener he is and great parent I am, he wound up taking one last dive that cut his eyebrow wide open. He's still at the Emergency Room with his father. I'm sure he'll need a ton of stitches.
Great Parenting, eh?
I guess I should have sat on him to make him stop jumping and crushed every bone in his body. 
Have your kids ever had to get stitches right after you warned them not to do something???
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 03:24 Post subject:
hopefully he learned that mom is always right
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 06:20 Post subject:
not yet, but apparently I did.
He'll learn that you're always right and it'll teach him not to do that anymore.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 06:29 Post subject:
Yes, my youngest when he was about 3. I had told him and his brother to stop running around chasing each other cuz someone would get hurt.. Sho nuff the boy falls and hits his head on the corner of the wall at the door way sending blood spewing everywhere.  He was so freaked out it took us like 10 min. to catch him cuz he didn't wanna go to the hospital and obviously needed stiches too. I was shocked when we got there and he turned into a completely different kid and just sat there as they gave him a couple shots right in the top of the head and then stiched it up without a peep fro him.
I'm sorry about little noley hopefully he learned a lesson too. Your a good mom, it happens. 
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 06:32 Post subject:
Sorry to hear about that noley. Maybe now he will listen
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 07:14 Post subject:
I pulled the same stunt as your son when I was a kid except that I passed out when I hit my head.
PS - My mom was a bad mom, too. 
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 07:47 Post subject:
my kids have never gotten stitches but i remember my mom yelling down the stairs to me "stop that before someone gets hurt"
i was in the ER with 7 chin stitches in about an hour. 
kids will be kids. {{{{noley}}}}
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 08:24 Post subject:
The boys have each had stitches. Will's was purely accidental (while getting into the Jeep after school) but Libby played a part in Jake's (when she pushed him). I'm sure I had mentioned not to push your siblings at some point. He got hurt, she got a whuppin'. I think they still push though.
Kids are gonna get hurt, that's a fact of life. I'm sure he won't be diving into the couch anymore. Hard way to learn the lesson, but it's been my experience that the hard lessons teach the best.
Doesn't mean you're a bad mom.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 08:24 Post subject:
The Marine has a scar in his eyebrow from stitches received when he crashed into an end table after he was told to quit running around. My youngest one, the one who spends as much time as he possibly can riding his atv or his buddies dirt bike has yet to receive stitches or broken bones. The Marine has been to the emergency room a number of times...
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 08:39 Post subject:
Be thankful it was just the eyebrow. They think they're indestructible. That doesn't end until after college. Maybe.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 09:10 Post subject:
I got stitches right in the top of my head from playing hide and seek, and diving head first into a hiding spot, ....and being off ever-so-slightly.
I also got a huge black eye from playing some form of tag inside, and diving after a cousin, and bashing my eye off the window sill.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 09:42 Post subject:
both my older kids broke their noses at some point. Sterling, the 16yo did it when he was about 2 and the in-laws were babysitting him. We didn't realize it at the time. It hurt some, but because he was so young he didn't complain, and there was no bruising. a few years later the pediatrician asks us when he broke his nose. 
a few years ago, as Stormie and Sterling were wrestling, he broke her nose.
oh, and btw, i spent about 4 hours in the emergency room with Sterling last night. He has the flu, but was in a lot of pain. Unfortunately, I had to sit there in the same little room with him and his mother.
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 10:24 Post subject:
My father told me if I didn't start wearing shoes outside and I cut my foot one more time he wasn't taking me to the hospital.
I went out, and of course cut my foot wide open on a piece of glass. I remeber sitting on the counter in the bathroom while my friend sewed the gash closed. He did a good job too, I barely have a scar.
Of course my mom still doesn't know why I needed her sewing kit.
Sheldon
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:11 Post subject: Re: Parenting101 Screw-up Part 131
| nolefan85 wrote: | I told Little Nole #3 at least 5 times not to take diving jumps into the couch this evening. Of course, the great listener he is and great parent I am, he wound up taking one last dive that cut his eyebrow wide open. He's still at the Emergency Room with his father. I'm sure he'll need a ton of stitches.
Great Parenting, eh?
I guess I should have sat on him to make him stop jumping and crushed every bone in his body.
Have your kids ever had to get stitches right after you warned them not to do something??? |
Lemme tell you about the summer I made six trips to the Emergency Room in three months.
Don't sweat it. Stitches, or the lack thereof, are absolutely NO indication of parenting skills, or the lack thereof.
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bpdou
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Posted: 02/01/05 - 12:12 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: | My father told me if I didn't start wearing shoes outside and I cut my foot one more time he wasn't taking me to the hospital.
I went out, and of course cut my foot wide open on a piece of glass. I remeber sitting on the counter in the bathroom while my friend sewed the gash closed. He did a good job too, I barely have a scar.
Of course my mom still doesn't know why I needed her sewing kit.
Sheldon |
and from then on you were known as "Rambo."
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