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Father let child fall

29 replies

PattyP82 · 18/05/2018 22:27

Hi ladies,

I don't post here much. But I really need advice. My ex and I have a 2 kids, a boy and a girl. Boy is 15 months. Girl is 3. Me and the ex are trying to see if we can get back together. We have just been going away on family trips and hanging out as a family. He is a good dad but he can be very careless. On his phone loads. Can be very absent minded when it comes to safety. My son fell and split his eyebrow open yesterday in my ex's house. There was loads of blood, ambulance had to be called, he got stitches and was fine. I was also fine about it, it was an accident, these things happen. Today, I get a call to say he was in the park with the kids, he had our son in the buggy without strapping him in and he was looking at my daughter when my son fell head first out of the buggy into gravel. He has a big egg on his forehead. His nose is bright red an scuffed with bits of blood, plus the stitches on the other side from yesterday. His poor little face looks awful. I cried when I saw it. He's in bed now. Dad just said look I'm really really sorry, it was a mistake, I know I should have used the straps, it was my fault and I'm really sorry. We are all supposed to be traveling away together tomorrow on a ferry to see his parents (we're in Ireland he's in England).

What would you do? I feel like telling him we're not going

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LivininaBox · 19/05/2018 17:43

It wasn't an "accident", he didn't do up the straps. An accident would be if he tripped over, or climbed something while your back was turned. Forgetting the basic safety measures is not an accident it's neglect and while everyone makes occassional mistakes it sounds like this is a pattern of failing to do the basics.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 19/05/2018 17:50

Were you there for the first accident OP?

Whattheactualfuckmate · 19/05/2018 17:50

I actually wouldn’t go.

These are not simple accidents - these are cases where he is continuously failing his kids safety.

If you get back with him things will go back to normal - how he acted in the past with in weeks.

I wouldn’t trust him to take the kids out by himself either. You might start getting asked some very awqward questions from the hospital too - unless he starts hiding the injuries...

Mookie81 · 19/05/2018 18:39

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