My son got a boo-boo
By sweetgirl_k1
@sweetgirl_k1 (3972)
United States
June 7, 2011 2:02pm CST
My son stayed with my husband while I went off with my mom. I told my husband not to let my son go outside with my step brother by themselves. My step brother is a lot younger than I am and he has some problems. I knew something would happen if he let them go outside with my husband not watching them. Well, I got back home and my son came out with this big bandaid and a smaller bandaid on his knee. So I knew something had happened. They were riding on the golf cart and my step brother started doing doughnuts on it and made my son fall off and he hit the rocks with his knee. It looks really bad. I got upset at my step brother and told him that he could have ran over my child or hurt him worse than he already was. He cried and apologized and said it was a stupid mistake and he got in big trouble by my mom and his dad. He lied and told my mom that his dad said it was ok for him to ride the golf cart and his dad said no I never told him he could ride it. From now on if I go anywhere and leave my husband at their house then I will take my son with me. Has anything like that ever happened to you or someone in your family? I know it was an accident but it wouldn't have happened in the first place if my husband hadn't let them go outside alone.
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5 responses
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
25 Nov 11
I know how hard it is not to want to protect your children from everything. This was a learning experience for your husband too. I'm sure he didn't want your son to get hurt. I bet he will pay more attention the next time. It is hard to handle but sometimes children get hurt...even when we are watching very closely. Take care.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
8 Jun 11
We need to exercise proper diligence, caution, even vigilance where our children are concerned. I know that you did just that.
While accidents may happen under even the best of circumstances, certain of your descriptive words here belie the carelessness, negligence and lying of the part of your stepbrother, as well as the bad judgment of your husband in not following through on your request.
By God's grace, your son sustained only a knee injury; it could have been a head injury and far worse.
While forgiveness is in order, so is the rememberance NOT to make that mistake again and, as you correctly state, to take your son with you.
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
8 Jun 11
Hi. sweetgirl_k1. I wished that your husband did not leave your stepbrother and your son alone at all. When you left your son in his care, you figured that he would watch your son. I am sorry that this has happened to your son too. Your stepbrother should not have lied and tell you that it was okay for him to ride the golf cart because his mom and dad did not give him permission to. It is very sad that you will have to take your son with you from now on wherever that you go to because your husband did not watch him like he was supposed to.
@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
8 Jun 11
I hope that your son is alright and that his cut heals quickly and does not get infected.
I am very careful who I leave my children with, but accidents do happen. They have even hurt themselves when they are with me, and I keep a close watch on them. I have literally turned around to do something with my daughter in the room right next to me, and she has quickly tried to reach for something she wasn't supposed to be grabbing (she only tried to reach for it because my back was turned), and she lost her balance, fell and hit her head.
Still, you had asked your husband not to leave your son alone with your step-brother and he did anyway. I would have gotten extremely angry about that, especially since you told him what your concerns were and he proved that you were right. I hope your husband now realizes that your concerns were valid and listens to you and respects your wishes more in the future.
Still, you had asked your husband not to leave your son alone with your step-brother and he did anyway. I would have gotten extremely angry about that, especially since you told him what your concerns were and he proved that you were right. I hope your husband now realizes that your concerns were valid and listens to you and respects your wishes more in the future. @Jessi_T (379)
• United States
8 Jun 11
I don't know how old your son or your SB are so it is hard for me to judge. Children are just that children and accidents do happen. I have 7 kids 5 of which are very mobile two small ones and I live really close to my parents and siblings and I have a lot of nieces and nephews and they are all ages and run in out of the houses all day. Someone is always doing something and indirectly getting another one hurt.
Here's an older example from 7 years a go when my youngest brother was 12 he climbed up on the radio antenna onto the roof or our parents home. My 10 year old nephew followed him uninvited up and got halfway and was afraid to go down or go the rest of the way up. He was screaming and yelling for someone to help him. Of coarse by the time anyone got to where he was at he had completely freaked out and fell the rest of the way back to the ground breaking his arm. Indirectly that was my brothers fault though he was only 2 years older he knew our nephew was afraid of heights and wouldn't follow him, he thought of him as a baby and didn't want to play with him even after apparently our parents told him to do so. He got out of nephews way, nephew fell. More directly it was an accident.
