being a parent!

Hi jessicaboardman, Oh! he was a brave little boy, but don't feel so guilty you didn't know, they shloud have took him straight to the hospital in the first place. I broke my wrist a fw years ago when I sliped on the ice, I went home and I was crying, but I just thought it was a sprain, a week later I was still in pain and my husband decided to take me to the hosptial, I got it x-ray and the doctor said it was broken and I have been walking about for a week with the broken wrist and even the doctor couln't believe it. Tamara

Hi Jessica, I know how you were feeling at the moment as I had a similar situation with my eldest daughter when she was younger. She always whinged about this hurting and that hurting so I didn't take much notice when she said her legs hurt and I went into the garden to mow the lawn and when I got back in she was still sat in the same spot which was unusual, well I took one look at her legs and said how on earth did you do that she was covered in massive bruises which hadn't been there before, I phoned my husband and said I was taking up to the hospital and to meet me there well by the time he got there I was being questioned and they had called social services as I could only tell them she had been sat down doing nothing and it looked horrendous and broken x rayed nothing and then the other leg started going the same in front of their eyes so they called someone else and it turned out that she had Henoch Schlein Purpura which can lead to renal failure too, my nan was in tears cos she had also told herto shut up moaning earlier too, bless her. I can quite understand why social services were called as it really did look like she had been beaten and legs broken but they left once every one realised. She is fine now but I cried and cried through not having taken her pain seriously before the bruising started especially as it also turned out that the hurtingwhingeing was the lead up to it all. All we can do as parents is our best eh and I am sure many parents have experienced moments where their child is more ill than they think. I hope your sons arm mended okay once the break was iscovered. Huggles. Ellie :D

I have often felt guilty. I have four children - all grown up now - but I remember my little son coming into our room after midnight and trying to climb into our bed. He pulled over the lamp which was on my bedside table, and ended up on the floor with glass broken and cuts on his face! It was terrible, and I had to rush him to casualty and have some stitches put in near his eye. On another occasion, one of my daughters took her little ride-on bike to the top of our steep driveway and rode it down straight into the garage door. I was in the back yard and heard the bike wheels trundling down, getting faster and faster - then a horrible thump as she hit the door. By the time I'd run up there, she had caught her breath and was screaming - but it could have been a lot worse. I guess there is plenty of opportunity for accidents with little kids. We have to be extra vigilant.