I found this awesome website that every parent needs to read. What made you really stop and think about this? And what do you do to help the difference?

[Parker1970]

Hi everyone,
I ran across this and I feel it’s very easy for us adult adults to forget what it’s like down there. Don’t simply just sit on the floor, you should sit on the floor and imagine being 30, 40, 50 pounds, having the physical strength of someone that size, and unlike adults they cannot simply stand up to their full 5’0” + height. They walk around everywhere being that low to the ground, whereas adults have the luxury of standing up and using their legs that are the same size if not bigger than their entire child to walk places.

I’d like to start a discussion if possible. What made you really open your eyes to this? And what I mean by that is when you really thought about it, thought about how something might look so much different when you are two or 3 feet tall. Even if you take away the child innocence is still could look very different from the physical vantage point. Or the fact that your legs are the same size as your entire child and they are holding a hand that is almost out of their reach because you’re so much bigger. I’m just curious what open y’all‘s eyes to really grasping That? What do you do to help?

I’m just trying to make a PSA. Please, get down to your child’s level. Really get down and stay there for a while.

https://www.in-their-shoes.com.au/

To me after I read the “no warnings, knowing what’s about to happen” section, that’s when I really stopped and thought about it. Really this whole article does a good job of putting into perspective. I have never really thought about it before. Now I’m trying to imagine everything from down at my little DD‘s level. Tables, chairs, shelves, counters, let alone One adult, then they are surrounded by adults who can, like the article said, be a human necklace. I mean obviously I knew, And have picked up DD several times, but this really puts things into perspective. How would I like being yanked up like that by someone proportionately Bigger than me, than I am my DD.

so yeah that’s really the whole point of the post. What made you stop and actually think about this instead of just saying yeah it’s a fact, but really stopping… And thinking about it. Thinking how everywhere you go you are 35 pounds and 3 feet tall, surrounded by people that are a good two or 3 feet taller than you and Objects that are designed for people 3 feet tall than youa

What's a PSA?

I remember being that height quite well.

Public Service Announcement I think...

Literally not one of us are traumatised due to once being smaller 🙄

I’m not traumatized , I’ve just never actually taking the time to legitimately think about it. I think about what it looks to my little DD. And I’m also just curious what do y’all do to help mitigate the difference?

eh?

Oh, I don't know, being at cigarette-waving height in the 1980s was pretty hazardous 😁