What is your scariest parenting moment?

When my boys were about 5 and 7 I guess, they were playing in the yard. I had gone into the house for something and when I came back out my youngest was gone. My oldest said he didn't know where his brother went. We lived right across the street from the beach so I ran there first to see if he had gone that way. He was nowhere to be seen. I checked all around the yard, then checked through the house thinking he had followed me in. I was about ready to call the police because I was freaking out - I had gone back down to the beach again just to double check. When I went back into the house to call the police, for some reason I checked the bedroom again and found him taking his nap, on the floor between the 2 beds on top of the blankets. I hadn't seen him the first time because when I looked I only saw the blankets. He was always really good about just going in and taking his nap whenever he was tired, but it sure did freak me out!

There are a lot of scary parenting moments. Such as if my child is sick, then I will be very worried about him. I hope I could be sick for him.

Well there were a few falls that were scary, but i think the scariest so far for me was the one time my daughter was sick. She had a fever and was sleepy all day. She was sitting with me pretty alert then all the sudden she went very limp and was very listless. It was just a bad virus, but when she went from awake to limp like that it was scary.

When my son was about 2 1/2 years old I left him with his father alone for the first time. (We were not together and he had not really been a part of his son's life) I went out with my sister for a few hours and he stayed at my sister's house with my son. When we got home my son was asleep, but he hear me come in and woke up. He was crying and would not stop. After about 15 minutes I realized that he was holding his arm up against his chest and would not put it down. I ended up taking him to the ER and found out he had something called Nursemaid's Elbow. Basically a tendon in his arm had gotten moved over and was pinched in the elbow. It is caused most often by a child's arm being twisted. They took x-rays to make sure that was the problem. The doctor took his arm and put it to his chest and POPPED the tendon back into place. His father denied that anything had happened and my son was too little to say. My son will be 8 in 2 months and his father has only been allowed alone with him once since and that was for like 2 hours.

LOL. I read the article the other day! I thought it was quite amusing! My scariest moment so far would be finding myself all alone with the girls for several months (not my choice)and having no one to help me! I was really scared for their safety and mine! The caravan park we were in was mostly men and was miles away from the shops! I don't drive, so had to rely on taxis, and only having one in that town meant I waited for hours! Thankfully, we are all together now and in a house! lol. But knowing that the organisations that say the help were not interested in my case, I was devastated. I felt like I was a lump of clay on the bottom of their shoes. Other than that, giving birth! lol. Knowing that my baby was leaving the security of the womb to join this scary world! lol. i love being pregnant.

I would have to say waiting for my son to come out of surgery when he was 4 years old and had his tonstils out when he was in recovery he threw up blood and it scard the holy you get the idea out of me!

Isn't it funny how the scariest moments always happen to be about your children. We would take a bullet for our children rather than see them suffer. I watched my now 11-year-old go tumbling down the basement stairs while an infant strapped into her car seat. I cried for an hour after that. A year later as a toddler she went tumbling down those same stairs as I watched from the bottom, helpless to stop her. "Noooooooo!" was all I could do. My other daughter fell off her two-wheeler once and got quite a few bloody scrapes. I was terrified but she was okay. Oh, this one is not so good. My now 11-year-old daughter (there is a reason why she is a nutcase! - and I mean that in a good way), she was a baby sitting in a wading pool. She fell over backwards and was laying on her back just under the water. I wasn't sitting right next to her but I ran like the dickens, slipping and falling in the pool myself.

Well yes and I had mine just a month a go..it is under a discussion i started here on mylot under the title "my daughter gave me a scare".

Mine was when my daughter was nine months old, and she wanted me to take her out of the crib. I was busy and told her NO. she took it upon herself to jump out of the crib and I went ballistic. I made her father take us to the emergency room and check her out, but she was ok. That truly scared me. that happened the Day after Thanksgiving 1990.

I think the scariest for me was when my daughter (my first born) was about 6 months old, and we were at the pizza place in the mall, and she choked on a pretzel. I was screaming like a crazy person for help, and I was rapidly becoming hysterical, until she finally hacked it up. The next worst was when this same daughter got rear ended, when we moved to Florida. She called me crying, and although she was fine, my heart stopped every time she drove somewhere and she called me. I was scared crapless like that for at least 6 months after that.