Have you ever accidentally tripped over your child before?

[Parker1970]

The other day I accidentally tripped over my daughter. She’s in this phase where I guess she likes to Cut directly in front of me. I mean literally directly in front of me, then stop to ask me a question and of course I am so tall that she can easily go unnoticed. Not because I am trying to be mean or anything, but because well… The pier size difference. I am a whole lot bigger than her. Anyways… I’m sure you can guess what happens next. I just kept on going while she was laid on the floor crying now obviously I stopped and I picked her up to make sure she was OK. And she was not hurt at all she was just crying because I mean I can only imagine what that would feel like at her height and weight relative to mine. Heck, I would absolutely be in tears myself.

anyways I feel absolutely horrible every time I do this. And I understand that accidents to happen I just feel like she would learn after it has happened a couple of times. I am just trying to imagine it from her perspective, I am twice her height and easily three or four times her weight, and when I walk I have momentum. I hope she doesn’t hate me. I love my daughter, and he is a complete accident, and I feel like a horrible parent for doing this.

Is this just a mean thing, or have any of your accidentally ever done something like this?

I also noted when you apologise a lot for a kid it makes them make it into a bigger deal, like a weird power trip. I know it sounds insane but i saw kids eyes literally light up at how distraught an apologetic adult was. I would apologise once or twice and thats enough. They need to learn to move appropriately for their surrounds and accidents will happen until they learn..

Why are you so determined that you are enormous and they are so very tiny? The world is full of adults and children. They are different sizes. People have told you that they have also walked into their children but you think k it’s nit the same because their children might not be as young as yours.

OP, if this is genuinely how you feel about something that happens the world over every single day then you need to speak to your doctor. It is not normal to be obsessing over this.
Children and animals get tripped over trod on, bumped into all the time. It will happen at nursery, at school, at activities. Nobody grows up traumatised by it.

Yes I’ve tripped over my dc when younger. She was my little shadow and was constantly under my feet. That’s now been replaced by the dog who I trip over at least once per day!

Your children are learning how to manage themselves in the physical world and how to avoid colliding with other objects. They will make a few mistakes along the way, as with any learning process. There are far worse things to bump into than another human body.

i tripped over my dog this morning, regularly trip over ds dog
i dont remember tripping over my dc

Happens all the time with more than one when you’re carrying the little one. I haven’t just tripped over my child but other peoples. Just check they are ok and apologise!

Child, doll's house, cat. Tea went all over the clean washing.

Child and cat were fine. I needed to see a physio for 6 months.

i have stood on enough lego though so no longer go barefeet!

Yeah this is silly now you need to get a grip of yourself.

just slow down op

I was at a party many years ago at a soft play centre.
One of the workers brought in the wrong cake, she came in with the correct one and to take the other one away.
She failed to see a child and fell over him, she went flat out, lost her shoes and her cap. The cake was obliterated 😳
I had the most inappropriate fit of laughter. I was crying with laughter and my eldest still likes to remind me of this 10+ years on.
The kid was fine, I still laugh at the whole scenario.
I know this makes me a bad person....it was the state of the cake that did it 😂😭😂😂

OP you really need to think about how much this is affecting you:.. and in turn how your anxiety will affect your children. This is a non issue and something people would just forget about and get on with their day.

You need to teach them resilience in life because there will be bigger problems that they will encounter in life. Children do not get scarred over such small incidents… surely you know this?

dogs cats kids my own feet fresh air fell over it all

All the time, they are very small and very stealthy!

This is very common. It’s also one of the reasons I get annoyed with parents who let their DC run feral in restaurants. It really isn’t a great idea to trip someone up who is carrying hot food or liquids.

Show me a parent (of any size) that hasn't!

I've tripped over them, accidentally knocked them over when they were small and also fallen flat on my face whilst carrying the youngest as a toddler in the dark.

Accidentally stood in the cat the other day too.

I am very clumsy so it's really a miracle everyone in my house is still alive!

My now 3yo had a really great phase at 2 where she picked up creeping around from her big brothers and would creep up to stand right behind me. It was really excellent creeping, I had no idea she was there several times. And so I knocked her over several times. I won’t use all this language about giant and enormous, we have a completely bog standard size differential between an adult woman and a 2yo, and while I was very sorry and she was upset, she is totally fine.

Worse than that I rugby tackled my son to the ground.

My son was 5 and attending special school the bus pickup was a bit of a walk and across a busy road. One morning we were late and when we were almost there the bus arrived. He slipped out of my grasp and ran. I took off after him shouting "STOP" and stop he did by that stage I was going so fast I couldn't. Knocked him clean to the ground with me on top. Made the bus drivers day 😂

All ended well as he was obviously so traumatised he never did it again.

I still regularly trip over my dyspraxic teenager who towers over me and hasn't learned after more than a decade of being a trip hazard.

It's not long since I ploughed into a random toddler who cut in front and stopped just as I turned to wave to someone I knew. I appologised. Parents appologised. Everyone continued their day 30s later.

If a child ever got through childhood without minor hinderence and trivial upset, they'd be clueless about how to deal with life anyway.

them and the dog 😂 the dog gets apologies and grovelling and kisses, especially if I've trodden on her poor little paw. the kids less so, told to stop bloody walking in front of me (they're teens now so 🤷🏻‍♀️).

I trip over my daughter all the time as she cannot walk in a straight line and is constantly under my feet. I've never once felt guilty about it. In fact some times I get quite annoyed at her.

Im amazed you have got to this point of life without tripping over a child. Iv lost count how many times iv done this not only to my own but other people's

Same 🤣🤣