To be worried at grown up DD getting granite floor tiles? Can seen endless trips to A&E

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Wobbly toddler, and stb baby?

Please tell me you have not had cracked heads and noses as I am a neurotic worrier?

What do you want her floor to be made of? Rubber?

YABU, bonkers and ridiculous. HTH.

YABU, the pavement's also pretty hard you know.

Well we don't have anything similar inside but they have been OK on the patio - neither have they drowned in the river at the bottom of the garden about which my mother has had several sets of kittens over the years.

They have done the usual stuff - climbing on the fence and jumping off to see if they (ds) could fly (head/glue - the scar's part of him), the pushing and shoving game in the drawing room and dd fell against the edge of the door (head/glue), monkey bars (two broken arms), bicycle - badly broken leg, marble - stuck in airway (we were grateful there was a doctor next door for that and even he yelled "call an ambulance now" - just before the third whack between the shoulder blades dislodged it).

Granite - nah, don't worry and don't try to clip their wings either - they will survive. Mine got through my incompetent parenting fine . They're 17 and 14 now and the eldest yearns a piercing

We've hard floors, tiles or wood, throughout the house. No carpets. One bump, so far, and DD is 2.5.

We have a squishy rubber play mat by the sofa, which is the main danger area, but apart from that, nothing.

I have granite floor tiles and a 2 yo, 4yo, and am 28weeks pg.

No trips to A&E for any of us so far.

I have hard floors throughout the flat. My dd (3.5) has never had an accident on the floor that was serious. But knocked herself out cold running into the doorframe. regardless of flooring, kids will have the normal bumps and scrapes.

YABU, stop worrying.

We have stone tiles in our kitchen. DM was horrified when we had them put down. Never had a problem with them at all (and 5DC's so plenty of opportunities!) Only thing is that when I drop anything it smashes when It might not have done on a softer floor.

Youre right. I am being U.

Twill look lovely!

(Comes from being an A&E nurse and seeing endless gashed open heads - so colouring my judgement I think!)

The only floor related accident I've ever had is sliding across wooden floors in socks/with bits of Scalextric track on my feet.

Yabu.

Yes YABU! I do hope you haven't mentioned it yet. Say nothing.

we have slate and ds has been fine (so far, touch wood )

YABU.

We have quarry tiles throughout our creaky old house downstairs and lime cement and slippy rugs and trippy steps in dark corners upstairs. It is a very deathtrap I tell ee.

DD has never fallen over and banged her head inside. I can't see how she would really. She has never fallen over and bopped her head anywhere. Head boppings come from getting too close to the swings at the playground, not watching out for walls when running and having toy cars lobbed at her at playgroup.

dd3 aged 3 fell head first off the side of a chair on to a stone floor when we were on holiday once. It was awful to watch but she was fine. It did nearly lead to an unpleasant end for my nurse mil though. She was in the other room, didn't see the fall on precious head and neck and told me I was making a fuss. I just didn't say anything. I was so glad though when bil and sil (new parents at that point so very empathetic with 'aaargh we've broken the baby' said how cross she'd made them with saying it!

I did mention it

She know I am neurotic!

Its true..............kids have surprising thick skulls, so I will stop my U ness

I know it's hard when you see nothing but hurt people at work, but the majority of children will bump a head and not need medical attention. I always thought that for every child I saw, there were 5 still running around with some nice bruises that didn't need medical attention.
Get your nurse brain switched off lol.

I have granite floor tiles my DS has survived to 6.5 without any accidents on them

We have slate floor and dd is fine, so far! Floors are quite hard in general, I'm sure she will try her best not to drop the baby on it!

Slate floor, breakfast bar, tall stools, 3 yo - check

Trips to A&E. - none

More like endless trips to John Lewis, nothing shatters crockery etc quite like granite.

Kids will be fine. But OP if you're like this over flloors, I can't wait to see the reaction to bikes :o

My parents had stone floors all through my childhood, I survived! Don't remember ever cracking my head on it either. Any visiting babies/toddlers don't seem to struggle either. The glass coffee table now, that's a different story. It's basically just a bent pane of glass to put your tea on. Bloody thing's nearly invisible. Any toddlers have to be watched like a hawk; for some reason they always crawl underneath and then decide to stand up before emerging out the other end.

Just for some balance...

We had granite floor tiles in our old kitchen and at 13mo DD fell trying to climb onto a chair. Split her lip, bit through her dummy, completely messed her four front teeth up (chunk out of one, another very wonky, bottom two gone in different directions). But that would have happened regardless of what floor she'd landed on.

I threw the chair out

we have granite floor tiles in kitchen and none of kids damaged on it yet, (thankfully)

but we do end up with a LOT of smashed plates/cups/toys etc. because the floor is so hard

and it's a pain to clean

so I think YANBU actually, I'd choose a different floor covering.

OP, are you my mother?

This sounds just like the crackpot kind of thing she would say.

What on earth should your DD kitchen floor be made of then?

Seriously!

I am with you... but then i have one with hypermobility on whom grravity seems to have an extra effect...and one who throws himself round and has had several banged heads on the carpet.