Ouch, Maybe now she will learn

We have a small trampoline in the house. I will also set up obstacle courses for the kids. They know that general jumping on the bed is not allowed, but if it's raining out or too hot/cold, we will still do something to work off the energy. Sometimes I'll just sit at the edge of the bed and let them jump. We can't have a large trampoline in the yard because the feral cats around here would destroy it. Since they are kids, and I know they are going to do these things, I find a safe alternative for all of it. Someone will get hurt once in a while, but they can trip outside and break an arm just as easy. At least this way, they know I'm right there to help them. The only way I can think to get a kid to stop jumping would be getting a high loft or bunkbed. There wouldn't be any room to jump!

Really ouch! Hope your little girl's okay! My friend's daughter (about 3-4 years old) also likes bouncing on the bed, and nothing will stop her; not even when her mum threaten to beat her. One day, she fell off the bed, and they had to send her to the hospital; she had torn her leg ligament. It was sometime before she could walk. Now she is very careful going up and down from the bed. This is a very extreme case - but that's how dangerous it can be!

I think all kids go through this phase. My niece does things like this. I am sure she thinks I am a meanie. But I have just started telling her NO and sit down. (which I am sure you have done as well) The girl has my heart in my throat at some of the things she can do. My daughter was jumping on her cousins bed at about 2 years old. She slipped and bit through her tongue. She now has a scar ON her tongue. And every once in a while westill catch her jumping! Kids will be kids.

"What do you do to get them to stop?" Duct tape. (Well, it's an answer.. maybe not a good one.) :) My daughter has had this drummed into her head a lot. "No more monkey's jumping on the bed!" She still gets.. shall we say.. a little bouncy from time to time. Luckily, hasn't been hurting herself.

hi dear lilybug pl check up with your mom about your childhood days!! children are like that. she may not be feeling the pain as much you must be feeling being a mother!! but for how many things you will say no!! you must learn to control the kids and always saying no will hamper their growth and psyche!! happy motherhood!!

I did once, when I was six or seven, I just remember that I fell and there was an umbrella and I got a wound near my eye and like you, there is still a scar there.

Oh well I guess experience is the best lesson that a stubborn kid to learn. Although as parents we tend to really stop them before they experience this but sometimes it does teach them the hard way to learn. I think its enough for her to get her lesson well.

I don't have kids yet but I do have a nephew and I took care of my brothers when they were younger, so I know what you mean. By experience, kids are kids because they're curious and they have no fear in anything. It's quite tough for us to really teach them our own experience because sooner or later they'd be curious and would try it eventually themselves. So, for me, experience will always be the best teacher, and that a kid will never learn unless he has the exposure to it. Well, I'm not saying you go on ahead and let him loose with a kitchen knife, but let him be a kid. Yes, we are over protective about our children, but I guess being so keeps them from really growing up maturely. Look what is happening around where the parents are in constant fear for their kids' well-being, the kids end up lazy and easily depressed. They couldn't handle pressure and stress that's why they either kill themselves or go bezerk in some places and start shooting other people. These are because the kids were no exposed to the activities of life. They were too protected, they didn't have the chance to feel hurt, cry, fight, and settle things with other kids. So, I think it's ok for kids to feel pain but of course we should be there to comfort them and support them that regardless the pain, they could rise above it and the day would be better the next day. You could also show them or explain to them that falling on the bed is painful. You can re enact it or simply let them experience it for themselves. =)

kids can be stubborn most of the time...like how they say kids will be kids..they wont stop till they drop...when i was a kid i didn't do that bouncing but i know i had done so many things that hurt me physically before i learned...like climbing on trees till i fell down...

Well ,my younger cousin was as naughty as your daughter .He seemed have interests on everything ,although he did not play on the bed .Once upon a time,he just play with flies.Can you guess how he played with the fles?He used a small and long stick to beat the flies on the ground.The result was quite funny :no flies were beaten ,but he himself was beaten.And from then on ,he has given up beat the flies on the ground.

kids will do watever they wanna do......the more u try to stop them from something the more they will do it............

The childdren are all very likely.They like jumping and bouncing.Those are their joy.Don't forbit them.We can use the effective way to tell them about the dangerous.Though they will can't understand at that time but if they fell off one times, they will remember long time and may not continue. Just like the ancient chinese cloud:"the scalded cat fears cold water".

Oooh, too bad for you when you were a kid and too bad for your daughter... but sometimes you have to get hurt to learn.. My mom said when I was 3years old and my brothers were 6 and 7 years old respectively, we were playing in a double deck bed. They put me on top and they were at the bottom deck. Since it doesn't have a mattress and is made of a hard plastic weave they were teasing me by poking me through the holes. They said I was playing along and I was enjoying it so much that suddenly, the pillow on the edge fell and then I fell. My brothers screamed because they thought I was hurt, so my mom who was on the next room ran to us. My mom said she saw me on the floor, on top of the pillow, giggling. When my brothers recounted it afterwards they said that the pillow fell faster than I did. Like when I fell, it was in slow motion. They're still amazed up to now when they tell the story. They believe I was saved by a guardian angel, which I believe as well.

Well I remember that I did and I guess that other than yelling at them to get off the best thing for them is experience what could happen.

My kids don't do it often. But my older son actually taught my younger son to bounce on the bed. It drives me crazy when the two are at it. The younger one never does it when his older brother isn't there. My older one is old enough to understand...so I usually remind him when he starts doing it. With the younger one, I physically remove him off the bed and then distract him with something else he likes.

hi lilybug I used to bounce on the bed as a kid but never 'got hurt.but clever little me, my swing had broken so I tied therend ofthe rope to a tire.I was going to be a rope walker uh oh, I maybe got two feet across and fell, twisting my ankle, and putting me in mucho pain. that taught me I was not a tight rope walker but just a little kid.

i;ve always known people saying, if your loved one's dont understand a thing then let them face the experience (BAD) and then they would fall and then never do it again, my theory is entirely different i dont want my love one's to fall even! i wanna guide them before they have to fall for it and then learn i would just hold them and stop them in your case if i see they gonna fall off the bed! like your kid did! i wont let her/him fell down off the bed already and then learn!

Everything is learned by "fall down".

oh no no no my friend ,, i have never do that before ,,and now ,i do not do this ,i think this is no interest ,,but you know ,many men many minds,so many countries so many customs

Well I gotta say that my son has not gotten hurt yet by jumping the on the bed knock on wood(which I just did knock on wood). But I have done this when I was little. I dont remember the age...my mom remember's as for she was the one that told me the story. She said that I would always jump on the bed but she said that the one time I did jump on the bed I had cut the back of my head open. She said the way it happened is that I use to use the dresser to also to jump on the bed. She said that I would jump from the dresser to the bed and when I went to do it again I missed the bed and went backwards and hit the back of my head of the dresser and had to get stitches. I dont remember much of it happining but I'm assuming that it hurt.