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My kids have to be BLEEDING and an arm bent in the wrong direction before I took them to A&E....

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Tallulah72 · 12/10/2007 21:23

... and still I was reluctant. AND, once, I even went to bingo and got a bit tiddly rather than take one of my children to A&E after they broke their elbow . AND another time, one of my children fell off my bed (after using it as a trampoline), cut their lip/mouth open and it was only because I thought it was a bit wide that I took her to the doctors for some butterfly stitches . AND, yet again, another of my children fell over a football whilst playing, he was lead on the pavement sobbing and I told him not to be so soft and to get up. We had to go to A&E for this one as we thought he might have a broken kneecap

I believe that kids should be allowed to run about, fall, hurt themselves and shouldn't be wrapped up in cotton wool. Let's call it "character building"

Are you a panicky parent or am I just so laid back I'm almost horizontal? And what the frig did we do before NHS Direct? I can honestly say that I've never phoned them. At all. Ever!!!!

*I was just discussing this on another forum so I am not taking the piss out of anyone, OK?

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themildmanneredaxemurderer · 12/10/2007 22:18

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TotalChaos · 12/10/2007 22:20

Good point and good post Piffle.

SaintJude · 12/10/2007 22:20

I think my presence here is required....

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emobob · 12/10/2007 22:21

mrsmerton, thank you for being open minded to the original post.

as for whoever it was said I don't know what you've been through, well you should take your own advice. Do you know for a fact that I haven't lost a child in an accident? Do you? Did it not enter your mind? I doubt it

you guys are unreal, I was under the delusion that this was a friendly site where mums group together, and if you didn't like the opening post, why not stay away and ignore it? Or find a better way of disagreeing, I fear that sadly this sites members are lacking in a little thing called "tact"

honestly

SaintJude · 12/10/2007 22:21

Listen ladies....the joke fell flat....lets not all embark on a witch-hunt.

It's not halloween yet after all....

SpookyDooooo · 12/10/2007 22:23

Who needs halloween for a witch hunt?

LadyHex · 12/10/2007 22:23

Aren't you worried that you are teaching your children not to take their health seriously?

And there's always the worry that it might teach them to leave ancient, wrinkly old Tallulah fallen on the floor at the bottom of the stairs for a couple of days, just to make sure she wasn't merely attention-seeking.

After all, old people should be allowed to run about, fall, hurt themselves and shouldn't be wrapped in cotton wool. Let's call it "character building".

changedmynametosaveface · 12/10/2007 22:23

WE are lacking in tact??????????????????????????????????????????????

pot, kettle, black!!!!!!!

someone comes on here bragging about neglecting their kids and we are lacking tact for not thinking it's funny???????

do me a favour!!!!!!!

TwigorTreat · 12/10/2007 22:25

rofl .. knew you were a BMCer

gobbo
21:11 12/10
Tally, I dare you 38quid and a box of Wispas to post this, unedited, now, on Mumsnet.

SaintJude · 12/10/2007 22:25

It
Was
A
Not
very
funny
Joke.

Calm down ladies.....

TwigorTreat · 12/10/2007 22:26

www.badmothersclub.co.uk/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=302&id=98706&orderby=&page=4

SaintJude · 12/10/2007 22:26

Oh yes, humour doesnt always cross over well from here to there and vice versa

orangehead · 12/10/2007 22:27

emobob- this is a friendly site, just some of us dont appreciate sick jokes and just because we dont doesnt mean we are all wrapping our kids in cotton wool. Dont assume we neurotic coz u dont know us

ScaryScaryNight · 12/10/2007 22:27

Embob and Tallulah72 have never posted here before, never appeared on any other thread on MN, till this one. At least not on these names.

Really shite sense of humour. A child could be dead due to such a bad judgement call.

Lets just end this now.

Bottom line
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emobob · 12/10/2007 22:28

no I am saying that if you don't like it, leave it be. Tallulah posted something, and everyone jumped in with name calling. And as I said before, her kids LOVE her... why would they leave her laying on the floor? She OBVIOUSLY didn't bloody know the bone was broken, did she? Christ almighty, you must think the worst of everyone if you didn't realise that!

And for the record, she's already wrinkly (eh Tallulah

Piffle · 12/10/2007 22:30

I have no idea whether you've lost a child or not. I sincerely hope not
I very nearly have and that is why I take the route I do with her, given that she is visually impaired also requires much help and watching.

Also bear in mind this
ds1 (13 and rough tough big lad) was pushed over during footie a cpl of yrs ago
he fell putting his left arm behind him to break his fall...
He writed in pain
All his mates yelled oh get up don't be silly, come on and one pulled him up
At which point he collapsed in shock as his humerous (upper arm bone) has been snapped clean in two and had trapped a vital nerve.

The child only repeated what I might have said perhaps.
But a mother knows the difference
And FWIwit totally screwed up his year in school, he nearly failed an special art assignment he had been invited on
Had he not been pulled up, his nerve may not have been affected...
But I'm truly glad you have such robust kids

Original poster
Tallulah72 · 12/10/2007 22:30

TwigorTreat... RUMBLED .... it's all that Gobbo one's fault. AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN POST HERE

So - if you're going to come on over onto the SAME thread over there please can you keep your bollockings to that thread and not upset everyone else. Chuck at me what you can

My profile is on there for all to see

OP posts:
ScaremyVile · 12/10/2007 22:32

How fucking BORED must you be??

COCKadoodledooo · 12/10/2007 22:32

"someone comes on here bragging about neglecting their kids "

Really?

Doesn't read like that at all to me.

I don't think for one minute it was deliberately neglectful - if the break was immediately obvious, I'm guessing a hospital visit would have happened sooner.

SpookyDooooo · 12/10/2007 22:33

Hey it must be that shit over there that you had to come over here

Piffle · 12/10/2007 22:34

I'm leaving.
I have posted some very personal things on here and am gutted beyond words
Fuck off

TwigorTreat · 12/10/2007 22:34

BMC is a cracking site and MNers and BMCers hold each other's hands through the inevitable fuckery-bugs that feck the sites up

We like them .. they're interesting, funny and don't hun you

SpookyDooooo · 12/10/2007 22:34

Hey twig someone is looking for a private detective on another thread you know, have you put your name down

ScaryScaryNight · 12/10/2007 22:36

But that is the really sad and upsetting thing when a simple troll wants some fun, there is always SOMEBODY else who reads it, and it will trigger something, and people end up feeling hurt.

Some people have NO sense.

orangehead · 12/10/2007 22:36

emobob- u say u disagree with people being too quick to ring nhs direct or take kids to docs, but u also saying it not talle fault as she didnt realise it was broken. I guess thats where the seeking medical advice comes in because we not docs and dont always know if something serious or not