To think this can’t be normal!

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My 4 and a half year old is so clumsy. I feel like I still can’t take my eyes off him for a second. He’s had quite a good spell but we’ve had our room done out and finally brought a coffee table back in. It’s only been done a short time and he’s already slipped on the floor and bumped his head on it and now tonight spun straight into the corner of the wall and ended up with a lump on the side of his head. I feel like he’s just always bumping his head at the moment. Can this be normal? He’s 4 surely he starts seeing risks by now!!! I am constantly telling him why he shouldn’t do something then it happens and he’s just not learning from it. I’m so anxious over these bumps I’m struggling to control my concern when it happens. I’m frightened I’ll make him a bag of nerves! But is this normal?

Sounds like me as a kid, I didn't improve much as an adult. He's unlikely to do himself a mortal injury, just relax and let him figure out where all the edges are

This sounds silly, but have you had his eyes tested? My DD was so clumsy, but when she had her eyes tested in reception, she was sent home with a note for the optician. One eye turned out to be really very weak, which was affecting her depth perception etc. She was far less clumsy after she got her glasses!

My youngest was like this. Then we had her eyes tested and she needed quite strong glasses.

DS2 was my “A&E child”. He had a very large heavy head and toddler body proportions until he was about 9 😆 and was forever falling over/off/onto things. On two separate occasions he had to have bits of gravel removed from his forehead. He has ADHD and dyslexia (diagnosed) and I do wonder whether there is a touch of dyspraxia about his accident-prone nature - but some of it was just being a jumping bean who charged about the place like a honey badger on pingers.

I have considered this. He was kind of checked when he was a little younger. But not officially. At the time (around a year ago) the optition said he had great eyesight. I think I will ring and get him booked in though just to be sure. Although the time before literally walking into the wall he was dancing around like a goat slipped and bumped his head on the table then the time before that he slipped while also jumping on our outdoor patio!

I’m still like this in my sixties. I am dyspraxic.

It just always seems to be his head and that gets me so anxious!