I have literally BEEN that child who broke a leg and was in a full cast, who has a golf w@nker dad.
I was 9 so older. I still found it to be one of my more traumatic childhood memories. The break was SO painful. Even after 3 births, I say the break was more painful . I never felt so abandoned by my dad (he did also call me a little b@stard for waking him up the night it happened as I had diarrhea due to shock and couldn't get up the stairs!). I felt a burden.
If he's a "typical" golfer, which I assume he is if he's going away to golf, then they're all selfish, self obsessed and think nothing of spending the precious little time they have away from working "unwinding " on the golf course. There are so many golf widows out there. If he's never golfing and it's a one off, uncharacteristic treat, then I may feel guilty asking him to cancel. But I'm not with a man that would honestly do this. Nor would I want to be.
My partner wouldn't leave me with the kids. We have a 4 year old. And he's super, super hard work compared to the older ones. He can't sit still. If he broke his leg my life would be utter hell .I do not know how some of these comments can refer to kids be independent at 5 and resilient. Parents that harp on about resilient kids (like my parents did) also were happy to subject us to trauma, weren't there if we felt vulnerable, told us to get on with and projected adukt emotions onto us when we didnt have the understanding to process events like an adult does, which i see is happening in some of these comments.
Sorry, but loving, supportive, parents will understand breaking a leg, cast up the entire leg, is actually a pretty big f*cking deal when you're 5. That's not a small break. Dare I ask how it happened?