How often does this happen

Wow, how strange! I'm glad she's okay. I've never seen it happen.. that I recall anyways.

I won't tell you to hold it in when you want to pee then.

and if R hadnt said anything she wouldnt have choked right as she probably does it all the time!

ooo, scary! can't say its happened much to me, but I'm sure I've just forgotten it!

I seem to think that that has probably happened many times. Parents do seem to have a second sense about such things. It comes from both experience and love, even alittle parental sixth sense. And the really good ones are like blood hounds when it comes to finding their children, knowing when something is wrong, and jumping to conclusions.

Glad Naomi was ok, poor thing! Geez, a donut did that? I know I always tell my daughter to SLOW DOWN and WALK or else she might fall . . . and sure enough, she will end up falling. History tells me this will happen - and many times it does.

We've had that kind of situations a couple of times. Slipping and falling while running on a wet floor is the most common.They've slipped and fallen even before I finish my sentence. But here's an incident that isn't related. My younger one could never resist biscuits and chocolates and would accept them from perfect strangers when offered one. We would repeatedly remind him not to...but he still would accept. Last year we were visiting husband's aunt at the hospital and he was offered a biscuit while he was waiting with his grandfather ..in the waiting area. His grandfather told him (in our language) not to accept it and to kindly turn them down...his father also told him the same. Little fellow didn't listen...accepted and ate the biscuit immediately. In one hour...when we got home...he got the 'red eye' (conjunctivities). Son thought it was coz he accepted the biscuit and has never accepted a biscuit or chocolate from anyone (including friends) since then!

Wow Dawn I am so glad that she was ok I have to admit it has not happened with my 2 ever

He cursed her! His own daughter! the dirty balustrade...

Wow....I know a few times you can say to the kids..stop that or your going to fall etc...then what happens next...yup they fall...or you will hurt yourself...just like that it happens....

good that nothing worse happened to her and she's OK. well, my wife has a very powerful tongue, as they say, dark tongue. although do not happen instantly, when she utters the word, mostly happens and that made me believe her, most of the times. especially when she gets mad.

Some people think that by intrducing the idea into another's mind the mind makes it happen. There may be some truth to this, I don't know by there is enough evidence to make me careful of saying anything out loud in the way of warning unless I know there is time to take action. Of course some believe that just the thought it's self will be the cause. Or maybe somewhere, somehow in another realtity it's already happened and that is why we think about it. This can go on and on for pages of what if's. Bottom line I don't know.

Hi dawn, No children under the sun would listen to what the parents have to say. They are curious and experimental. That after puking three times she must have gone weak. Did you give her some electrolites or Oral Rehydration stuff? This would give her a lesson that children listen to parents.

I think it happens, I'm a little bit superstition. I'm glad that Naomi is OK. This proves that we shouldn't watch every step they make. We should let them learn things by themselves. If we try to protect them every time they will not learn to do it be themselves. This reminds me the time when daughter had to learn how to cross the street. Sometimes I was watching her - when she was alone she was really careful. But when we were walking together and she was holding my hand, she was not careful at all.

It is a kind of sixth sense. You do not even have to say it. Just think about it and it happens. I slammed my 2 1/2 year old's fingers in the door of a two door car, as I was saying in my mind "I should not do this, it might get his hand." You know if I had not had that thought, it would not have happened. I often blamed it on my pregnancy at the time.

hi dawnald glad Naomi is o kay. I just remembered my husband sternly telling me to always use the stepladder to hang washed draperies.' and I was going yah yah and thinking I will not drag that heavy ladder into the living room just to hand that olne panel of draperies. I had always just put a straigh chair on top of the end tale, climed'noto it and hung the two paels of draperies. no prob. I ghought. so I got my straight back chair , rested it firmly on the end table and climbed onto it and sat while I hung the draperies but somehow could not quite reach the center. So I stood and leaned a bit too far. oh my G down I went as the chair went out from under me somewhere and I ended up with my legs stuck in she holes' n the end table. Pain o h yes. My husband took one look , scowled and helped me to get untanglesd. I stood up and my legs really hurt. I had huge bruises all over my thighs. I could walk so knew I had not broken anything but my hubby being himself, insisted I go to the ER for a check up. well in the ER I really heard it fromt the ER dpctor. He told me he had set more bones from men and women who refused to use a ladder but instead piled stuff on top of other things. My legs were x rayed and no fractures. the x ray tech said " you are holding your wrist. come here lets check that." Oh boy now I was in for it. the right wrist indeed was fractured. Let us just say that whenever I needed to hang draperies or anything else I could not reach my husband was there with the ladder.Well I was not a child and it was my husband cautioning me b ut he said you act like a child you will fall like a child. lol lol. Needless to say I did use the stepladder from then on.

Parent's jobs are to inform them how gross life is AND foretell the future.

I know it happened a bunch when we were kids. (Since I don't have kids, it's hard to come up with an example now.) But it seemed everytime my mom warned us if we didn't do this, this would happen, and it did. Walking on the fence was a common one. "If you don't get off that fence, you're going to fall!" BANG. I'd fall or one of my sisters would. "If you don't stop running with that stick you're going to fall and poke your eye out!" BANG. I only got a black eye...

That actually makes me think it is an omen or something. I do remember numerously saying don't run because you are going to fall. Sure enough bang down they went so I finally took the initiative to not say do not run you are going to fall anymore, instead I would let me know when you have fallen so I can help you up!