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Post by justme on Jan 30, 2014 16:56:02 GMT -5
Not mine, but my mom's. One night when I was around 2 I kept crying and crying, but every time she looked in the room nothing was wrong. Finally, after I think she said an hour, she finally turned on the lights and came in only to discover I was covered from head to toe in mosquito bites. The suckers were trying to bleed me dry while she ignored me.
Just don't tell your kids about your parenting fails when they're young, they won't remember but if you tell them they'll never let you forget it.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 30, 2014 16:58:31 GMT -5
When I was four I fell out of the car in the Hy-Vee parking lot. We were going less than 10 mph so I wasn't hurt. My mom didn't notice I fell out until she saw me running behind the car in the rearview mirror. She didn't have to tell me, I remember the whole thing. I've never let her forget it!
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Post by midjd on Jan 30, 2014 17:01:58 GMT -5
I do, thank you. Definitely over here at some of these. Guess I should get used to this "oh shit!" feeling, huh? And yes, MidgetJD landed right-side up. I've never been so glad to be short in my life, at least she didn't have too far to fall! My mom had to remind me that at 6wks old I rolled off a waterbed... they put me down to sleep while they were playing backgammon with my aunt and uncle and heard a "thump." I fell between the bed and the wall and was covered with cobwebs when they pulled me out.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 30, 2014 17:05:11 GMT -5
When my daughter was little, I handed her off to my Dad who carried her into the house. He got 1 step in the back door and tripped over his own feet or something. He went down, K went down and my Mom grabbed my daughter while I got Dad up. This was after the stroke and my first thought was "Fuck, he's having another stroke" and I was gonna call 911 until we got him up and he said he was fine, no stroke.
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Post by whoami on Jan 30, 2014 17:06:31 GMT -5
My kid drew all over his leg with black magic marker. I tried washing it off which left it looking like his leg was completely black and blue. I forgot about it to when I dropped him off at daycare. When I got the call, the were momentarily mortified at the "injury" until they realized he wasn't experiencing any pain.
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Post by Shooby on Jan 30, 2014 17:09:27 GMT -5
Well it's not like u didn't pay her lunch bill at school.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 30, 2014 17:11:36 GMT -5
No but we paid for a field trip for DS last fall, with his day care, to go to the pumpkin farm. I ended up off that day and let the kids sleep in. Completely forgot about it. The bus left over an hour before we got there. Whoops.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 30, 2014 17:14:01 GMT -5
I left my 4 month old daughter on the changing table, went to the closet to pick out a hip outfit and turned around to see doing a head first swan dive to the ground. I made a strange guttural noise that men should not make. but she was ok. I did the same thing but was in pediatricians office and kiddo hit terazza floor. Doc heard kiddo scream and ran back in and asked what happened. He sent me straight to hospital for skull x-rays. To this day I can't tell you how I made it to hospital. Doc had called ahead and when I came across the parking lot someone was coming out to meet me. They told me that he said there was a "new mother in shock headed their way" But look at it this way Archie, when people tell your kiddo they must have been dropped on their head she can flash the same shit eating grin my son does and and say Got That Right Jack
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Post by doxieluvr on Jan 30, 2014 17:20:17 GMT -5
Nope, never dropped a kid.
However, I would probably replace the car seat if you dropped it on the sidewalk. They recommend replacing car seats after every accident. I would think dropping it on a hard sidewalk would be the equivalent of an accident.
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Post by jeep108 on Jan 30, 2014 17:30:10 GMT -5
So many things. The ones that sticks in my mind. I had humming bird feeder in the fridge. I forgot to mark it. My husband thought it was Kool Aid. He gave it to my daughter, she was 3 at the time. Poor kid told me that the Kool Aide tasted funny and I couldn't remember making any.
I fell asleep when my daughter was walking so she had to have been 1. When I woke up she was eating her A& D ointment. The tube was full when I fell asleep and empty when I woke up.Called poison control I got lucky with that one. Turns out nothing in A& D to hurt her.
I took her to a jungle gym that was one big giant slide that was a maze. One of the other kids asked me to tie their shoe. When I was done my daughter was gone. Took me a half hour in the maze to find her.
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Post by jeep108 on Jan 30, 2014 17:31:36 GMT -5
Ok why did my D's turn to smiley faces?
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Post by jeep108 on Jan 30, 2014 17:36:58 GMT -5
I got it fixed. I guess it was to close to the &
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Post by jeep108 on Jan 30, 2014 17:39:15 GMT -5
My best friend was swinging her son, I didn't get to my daughter in time, his foot got her right between the eyes. We had pictures at daycare the next day. She has a goose egg right between her eyes for that picture.
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Post by chiver78 on Jan 30, 2014 17:41:29 GMT -5
oh man, this thread. I don't have kids, but my sis and I were the "victims" of some parenting fails when we were kids. here's the worst for each of us me: my parents had put bed rails between the mattress/box spring when they first moved me out of a crib. well, at about 2 1/2, they thought I was okay to not use the bed rails anymore. um, nope. first night w/o the rails, I fell out and fractured my collarbone. you can actually still feel the oddly-healed split on my right clavicle. sis: in the same NE Colonial house, we had a staircase right next to the front door. two steps up, a corner landing, a long flight up to another landing, then another 2 or 3 steps up to the second floor. at the first landing, there was a massive corner post to anchor the huge wooden railing and vertical supports that ran the length of the long flight. this was all located in a front entryway that had actual door frames (although no doors) straight back to the kitchen or left into the living room. do you think there were baby gates in these doorways when sis was learning to walk? haha, no. as best I can remember (I was maybe 4?) my sis started in the dining room, gained speed through the living room and plowed into that massive corner post at top speed at all of 11 months old - face first. her lip swelled so fast that it actually split from the swelling, it wasn't a cut. she had stitches inside and out of her mouth. the plastic surgeon was great, you can't tell at all - until she gets a tan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 17:41:42 GMT -5
Oh and Mid... The daycare wasn't judging you, they were just happy it was you dropping her and not them When I worked at an after school program, I had to call two parents from the swimming pool. The conversations went like this. Call #1 Me: Mom1, your daughter was in an accident here at the pool. She knocked a tooth out and should be seen by a dentist. She told me it was a baby tooth, but it's still bleeding and I would suggest a doctor check it out. Mom1: Oh dear I'll come right away... do you still have the tooth in case the dentist needs it? Me: umm... sort of. If you need the tooth you will have to coordinate with Mom2, who will also be picking up her child. Mom1: Umm.. ok Call #2 Me: Mom2, your son was in an accident here at the pool. He sustained a cut on his head, that is not life threatening but should be seen by a doctor. Mom2: What did boy1 do this time (boy1 was accident prone) Me: He collided with girl1 in the pool. This is going to sound a lot worse than it actually is, so please don't panic. When boy1 collided with girl1, her mouth was open and her tooth got stuck in boy1's head. Mom2: What?!? Me: He's ok, but he still has girl1's tooth in his head. Legally I'm not allowed to pull it out. Even if I was, I suspect he might need a stitch or two. Mom2: <Trying not to laugh> Me: Here's the other thing... Mom1 is on her way as well to pick up girl1. She may need the tooth back, so ummm you might need to coordinate this a little bit. The timing was perfect. They both arrived at the same time. I think they all went to urgent care with the boy, got the tooth, then Mom1 and girl1 went to the dentist. To this day I can still see that tooth wedged in boy1's part. I'm crying with laughter. I am going to have to share these all but especially this one, with my husband.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Jan 30, 2014 17:48:51 GMT -5
I have so many Ok, not once but twice when DS was a infant we forgot to buckle him into his car seat after leaving a store, just set the seat in the base and went When he was about two we were getting ready to go to Easter dinner and I though DH was watching DS and DH thought I was watching him and he fell down the back hall stairs into a spectacular head stand and scraped his face and back up pretty bad Also the time DH was chasing DS around the basement and DS slipped and cracked his head on the cement floor which I heard from the main floor. We rushed him to the ER and the I proceeded to ask the nurse what she thought about the marble he swallowed the night before He was fine from both incidents.
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Post by midjd on Jan 30, 2014 17:55:26 GMT -5
Oh Mitty, that reminds me of my brother... When he was about 2 he got a bad chest cold that lingered for a long time. My mom took him in for a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. On the x-ray, clear as day, was a Lego. As far as I know, it's still in there. And what is it with kids swallowing marbles? For a while, my brother had a "surprise" in his diaper about every other day. Marbles, more Legos, pennies, my Polly Pocket...
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Post by kilroy on Jan 30, 2014 17:55:33 GMT -5
Add me to the crying with laughter crew. Just remember, moms, we all managed to grow up (mostly) fine without seatbelts or bike helmets. Your kids will all be fine because they are loved.
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Post by Regis on Jan 30, 2014 18:04:30 GMT -5
When I was about 7 or 8, I was at my grandparents farm and stepped into a large hole, turning my ankle badly. It turned purple and swelled twice the size it should have been. My mother never took me to get it looked at, even though it swelled every day for nearly a year. When I was 13, I turned my ankle badly again. My mom took me to get it X-rayed and it showed a break in my ankle. After getting it casted and being on crutches for about eight weeks, it was X-rayed again and showed absolutely no improvement. After taking a closer look at the X-ray, it was determined that the break was from when I had been 7 or 8. Yep, still walking around on a broken ankle now and have never let my mother forget it.
Oh...and my mom is an RN.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 30, 2014 18:07:17 GMT -5
When boy1 collided with girl1, her mouth was open and her tooth got stuck in boy1's head.
OMG, I thought I was the only one with this type of story! When I was at daycare us school age kids were playing tag. I was running and collided with another kid, also a boy. Somehow my tooth connected with his forehead. Didn't fall out but took a huge ass chunk out of his head.
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Post by chiver78 on Jan 30, 2014 18:12:08 GMT -5
When boy1 collided with girl1, her mouth was open and her tooth got stuck in boy1's head.
OMG, I thought I was the only one with this type of story! When I was at daycare us school age kids were playing tag. I was running and collided with another kid, also a boy. Somehow my tooth connected with his forehead. Didn't fall out but took a huge ass chunk out of his head. yikes! this reminds me of an injury that still haunts my sis - on the walk home from middle school, sis and her friends were horsing around in the snow. somehow she ended up at the bottom of a pile. the way the injury was explained to me was that she dislocated the ball from the socket in her right shoulder, and then broke part of that socket. oh, and she's right-handed and an ace volleyball server until that old injury reminds her that it's there.
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Post by souldoubt on Jan 30, 2014 18:30:07 GMT -5
I dislocated DS's elbow when he was not quite 2. We do diaper changes on the floor (to avoid things like archie's parenting fail) and when I tried to help him to his feet, there was this popping sound and he started crying. I had no idea what I had done, but I knew it wasn't good because he wasn't moving his arm. I got hubby and we decided it required an ER trip. They popped it back in and he was fine, but OMG. I felt guilty for months afterwards! When I was maybe 3 my uncle and I were walking across a street. He went to swing me up onto the curb and my shoulder popped out of the socket. Of course I don't remember it but they took me to the ER and popped it back in without giving me anything. Unfortunately though it kind of messed my shoulder up and I ended up dislocating it a few more times as a kid.
If it makes you feel any better I don't blame my uncle at all but that doesn't stop me from giving him crap about it every now and then.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 18:42:40 GMT -5
Another one, from my "former lifetime" (ie when I was still married to my rich ex). We were at the beach house with all the cousins. My ex-inlaws have a beach house in a residence, the aunt and (late) uncle have the house next door. There was a playground in the residence, and all the kids would play together before dinner, supervised only by the older teen cousins. We all left the beach houses, and went to the mountains. Again, both families had houses next door. When we got to the mountains and start hiking, DS2 (4 then) starts limping, very slightly. We keep asking him, does your leg hurt? He says, no. We ask him a million times, where does it hurt? He says, it doesn't. Ex-H's cousin (a GP) examines DS2 and says he seems fine, I guess it's growing pains. We get back home, 5 days (of hiking in the Alps) later, I take DS2 to the pediatrician (the same one as for the horse bite) because I'm troubled by this. He too says, your DS2 seems fine, but do an X-ray, just to make sure ... Turns out DS2 has a broken leg! Not the tibia (the supporting bone), the other one (the perone). So we were the parents telling our 4YO with the broken leg that he wasn't hiking fast enough. No mother-of-the-year award for me that year either. ETA: I don't find that funny, I still feel shitty about that, even though DS2 is 25 now.
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Post by steph08 on Jan 30, 2014 18:48:06 GMT -5
My kid drew all over his leg with black magic marker. I tried washing it off which left it looking like his leg was completely black and blue. I forgot about it to when I dropped him off at daycare. When I got the call, the were momentarily mortified at the "injury" until they realized he wasn't experiencing any pain. My MIL's favorite story is when my DH was 2, he colored his, uh, privates, with a green magic marker. She thought he was sitting watching TV like a good boy.
He had a pediatrician appointment later that day, and everything was still green.
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Post by amishgal on Jan 30, 2014 18:48:24 GMT -5
My 11 year old DD has been complaining of foot pain off and on for the past year, but we've blown her off thinking it was growing pains. She dances and is very active so we thought if its really something she wouldn't participate in those activities. Finally took her to a podiatrist this week and found out she has an extra bone in each foot! The bone is connected to a tendon which has been getting inflamed and causing pain. Oops! So, we are probably going to try custom inserts for now, but she will eventually have surgery on each foot to remove the bone. Feel like crap for not getting it checked out earlier, but she can be a bit of a drama queen. There are many, many more fails, this is the most recent though! I have 3 daughters and I'm sure they have no shortage of my failures!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 18:59:28 GMT -5
Amish, sometimes it's really hard to know if there is something wrong.
I had a similar situation with DD. She danced, for years, and was always fine. When she was 13, she decided to do gymnastics too, and was constantly in pain. I took her to a rheumatologist, several times, but it didn't help. At one point I insisted on an MRI, and we learned that she had an abnormally-shaped meniscus that had fractured because of the stress of doing both dance AND gymnastics.
DD ended up with keyhole knee surgery (at 14).
That was a PERCEIVED parenting fail ... she had 3 weeks of PT after that operation, and she was on crutches for 3 weeks. The first week, I drove her both ways (a long block away). The second week, the PT told me, drive her one way, but make her walk the other. The third week, the PT told me, now she needs to walk both ways.
YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE the number of people I BARELY knew who called me to say, OMG, I saw your poor DD on crutches, on her way to/from the PT. Poor thing, she shouldn't have to walk there, in her state! If you're too busy to drive her, I can!
Of course all my FRIENDS knew it was part of DD's physical therapy.
The last follow-up from the surgeon, he said she probably shouldn't become a dancer (she's not planning to LOL) because her knee might not be able to take that, but DD has the best results to that surgery that he has EVER SEEN. (She may need it again in 20 years, we'll worry about that then.)
But it SUCKED trying to explain to all these "do-gooders" that NO, my DD was NOT abandoned and neglected, there was actually a good reason she was walking to / from / both her PT appts on crutches.
Best of luck to your DD!
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Post by giramomma on Jan 30, 2014 19:26:06 GMT -5
Please commiserate by regaling me with stories of the times you dropped your kid on his head or caught her eating out of the dog dish. I've done both. Same kid. It was my first. I figure, he was just the practice one I've gotten better with my second and third. Except when the third gets bumps and bruises we're all like Meh.
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Post by taz157 on Jan 30, 2014 21:47:06 GMT -5
My biggest parenting fail was when DD was about 3 months old. I had cut her skin when I was cutting her fingernails so I wrapped a band-aid around it. I was afraid that she would suck on her finger (wasn't like her to do that, but I was a paranoid 1st time mom) so I wanted to get the band-aid off before I went to bed. I used scissors to take the band-aid off as I figured that wouldn't wake her up. Needless to say, I ended up cutting her with the scissors as I misjudged. I felt soooooooooooooo bad about that for weeks afterwards. Now, I still feel bad but there's no scar! I was afraid there would be.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 30, 2014 22:20:55 GMT -5
so, here are one for each my mine. I was standing in the middle of the stairs holding my two month old baby. I have no idea what happened, but all of the sudden my baby fell out of my arms and bounced down two steps. She cried. I cried. I still don't understand. She turned 16 at the beginning of January, and we joke about it every once in while, but I still feel bad. When dd#2 was about 15 months old, I had her in a camping trailer. The door was open and the screen was closed. I knew she was toddling around, and I knew she had walked towards the screen door. I started walking toward her, so I saw the whole thing: she pressed her little face up against the screen, trying to see the people outside. The screen door opened, and she tumbled down the steps to the blacktop below, landing on her forehead. We were at a national BMX race, and there are always paramedics on site. I had her checked, and they thought it was just a bruise and not a concussion.
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Post by The Home 6 on Jan 30, 2014 22:22:25 GMT -5
Oh, my GOODNESS, have I been a parenting failure! Besides cutting skin instead of fingernails multiple times and tripping and falling whilst carrying the baby, let me tell you the worst....
So there I was, at my folks' house when Older Daughter was about 4 months old. (BS was overseas at the time). Mom had gone to work, taking the car seat with her. Dad says we need to load cows. What the hell, the pasture is only a few miles away. So I hold OD in my arms as we drive over there. Of course, when we get there, I am needed to herd the cows onto the trailer. What the hell, it should only take a minute or two. So I set OD on the seat of the pickup and herd the cows onto the trailer.
When I come back to the pickup, OD is on the FLOORBOARD of the pickup, surrounded by dried cowshit, wire, and God knows what else. (It is a farm truck, after all.)
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