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To ask how often your DC aged 8 to 11 injure themselves?

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 08/12/2017 11:18

DD is ALWAYS at it!

She's 9 and yesterday she hurt her left foot quite badly playing in the garden...she dropped a big rock on it Hmm and cut and bruised it.

We're in Australia and it's summer so she keeps going out barefoot...I hassle and hassle her about shoes... but no..she won't wear them unless she absolutely must...ie. school. I leave crocs/flip flops/trainers by the door and ask her to wear them but nope!

Then this evening (it's almost ten at night here) she's been to a sports event with her injured left foot dressed...did fine.

Got home...running around the house and doing high kicks ...again Hmm she's booted her bare RIGHT foot into our rough stone interior wall (it's an old house) and managed to almost chop the top off it!

I'm squeamish as hell and can't handle all the injuries! In this past year she's fallen off a high wall and had to go to hospital for a check, broken a finger, contant bruises and knocks to her head and body whilst playing...it's terrible!

Is it usual? My elder DD isn't like this and never was!

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ragged · 08/12/2017 11:26

I'd be proud of a daughter that tough & physically confident and unafraid to use her body or a little pain. I grew up in a place where I could go barefoot a lot -- good for her.

She might enjoy & do very well in a sport that capitalises on her physical confidence, like martial arts, trampolening, BMX, etc.

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 08/12/2017 11:44

Thanks Ragged....I suppose I should be pleased she's so physical. She goes to Gymnastics...Acro gym which is very physical and challenging and she trains three times a week so that'll have to do her!

She's just so constant! I'm always worrying she'll hurt herself....I was never anxious in that way before. Perhaps it's as she's got bigger and more daring, the injuries are more common!

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ragged · 08/12/2017 11:46

Luckily we have great modern medical care.
Be honest... would you worry this much if she were a boy?

DJBaggySmalls · 08/12/2017 11:47

I dont want to freak you out, but can she feel pain?

Lostin3dspace · 08/12/2017 11:54

By 11 mine had:
Broken their ribs twice
Broken their big toe
Broken three fingers in the same street sport incident
Had a cut on their head glued back at hospital
had emergency dental treatment
visited hospital after a bike accident

And more - but that's a bit outing really

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 08/12/2017 13:25

Ragged I definitely would! It goes through me the way she crashes about!

Baggy oh yes! She definitely can!

Space God...the stress!

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WhatHaveIFound · 08/12/2017 13:35

By 11 my DC have...

broken a tooth and had emergency dental work.
had a chin glued up
had butterfly stitches on head (twice)
been to hospital with a suspected broken nose
had a splint on a badly sprained wrist
had a thumb strapped up (hockey)
had a foot xrayed

To be honest i worry as much about DS as I do about my DD but i've very glad they're active kids who give everything a go.

BeALert · 08/12/2017 13:53

DD1 (age 16) - no injuries
DD2 (age 14) - one broken arm
DS (age 12) - constantly hurting himself. Regular trips to Urgent Care involving X-rays.

1099 · 08/12/2017 14:01

We were in A&E last night after DS (8) smacked his head after messing around in the changing rooms. He's previously had broken thumb, various sprains and seems to be constantly bruised somewhere or other. I don't worry about it much, I think it's a given part of being very active.

NoFuckingRoomOnMyBroom · 08/12/2017 14:08

We call DD (8) Calamity Jayne-she is so, so clumsy. There is very rarely a day goes by without a new mark appearing on her somewhere... Xmas Confused

rcit · 08/12/2017 14:12

She needs to be more careful. My kids have injured themselves also but I do have to tell them to be more careful.

I don’t understand why people don’t wear shoes outside - seems like basic common sense Confused. Can you police that better?

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 10/12/2017 06:19

Rcit well she's 9....so not really. It's not like a toddler who you're with all the time. She does her own thing. I have told her why she needs shoesbut it doesn't "go in".

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MaisyPops · 10/12/2017 06:30

If it helps, I was just like that as a kid. Always falling, tripping, doing silly adventurous stunts/tricks, bruising myself, breaking bones.

As an adult I don't injure myself aby more than any othet adult I know except for tripping over my slippers going UP the stairs. That is my speciality

NCRequired · 10/12/2017 06:39

How about some of those "barefoot shoes"? The ones with the really flexible soles that are supposed to be like not wearing shoes.

Broken11Girl · 10/12/2017 06:43

She sounds great OP, don't worry. She's having a great outdoors childhood in Australia, lucky her.
Rcit going without shoes in summer is standard in Australia.
(Am not at all Envy sorry, sidetrack.)
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Angelicinnocent · 10/12/2017 06:51

Between 10 and 12, my DS broke 3 bones, dislocated a knee and ripped the tendons in his elbow. At 19 he is a big, fit and healthy lad but still never stays still.

alwaysontimeneverlate · 10/12/2017 06:58

*Well she's 9 so not really.
*
My ds is 9 and there is no way he'd be going out without shoes on. It's either shoes on or you stay in and he's in trouble if I catch him outside without them.

Of course you can police it better you're the parent and she is a child. Ffs!

lljkk · 10/12/2017 10:44

My dad famously unimpressed his future inlaws by turning up barefoot to meet them, in about 1962. It's pretty normal where we are from (warm dry climate). They completely adored and deeply respected him decades later, though.

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 10/12/2017 10:48

Always the house is quite big as is the garden....to be frank, I only see her when she's hungry!

I figure she'll learn eventually. AsBroken says, it's pretty usualy in Australia for kids to go barefoot. The ground's quite rough and shoes end up with burrs and stones in them or sand...I think that it can be useful to wear crocs though as they rinse out easily with a hose.

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meredintofpandiculation · 10/12/2017 10:56

I don’t understand why people don’t wear shoes outside - seems like basic common sense confused. I think the reason that I tread on or trip over things less frequently than anyone else in this household is that as a child I was always barefoot in a garden full of gravel paths and holly trees.

lljkk · 10/12/2017 11:01

I hate wearing shoes. I get cold feet, or wouldn't bother often.
Still go barefoot outside in summer.

Don't care if it's dirty. Skin washes. Spent a childhood digging glass out of my feet. With modern plastic bottles that risk is gone, anyway.

Herewegoagain01 · 10/12/2017 11:15

In the past 2 years ds (11) has had 1 broken arm, 2 suspected broken elbows (all caused by football) and an open shin fracture messing about with friends. He seems quite injury prone!

Kim82 · 10/12/2017 11:16

Ds(16) no injuries
Dd(13) two broken arms - the second one just 6 weeks after the first cast came off, same arm, different place
Dd(10) one broken wrist
Dd(3) no injuries yet but she’s a clumsy bugger so no doubt will break something at some point.

weebarra · 10/12/2017 11:17

All the time, nothing serious though. DS1 is dyspraxic so it's understandable. The other two damage themselves less often.

Witchend · 10/12/2017 11:40

Dd1-almost never at any age. She was and is very careful.
Dd2 frequent grazes on knees at that age. Occasional twisted ankle. Generally more drama than actual damage. But nothing serious-and she was very active.
Ds broke his wrist playing football, occasional grazes and has had a couple of muscular injuries round his legs when he's tried too much. Again, very active.

The younger pair will also be going round barefoot most of the time (as I do)

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