Question of the Day: Broken bones
Thursday April 20, 2006
I managed to make it all through childhood and on into adulthood without ever having a broken bone, and my kids seem now to be following suit -- even my sensory seeking, power crashing, wall bashing son, who has had bad falls and several cuts that required stitches but no skeletal damage of any sort. Has your child broken any bones? Click on the answer that comes closest, and use your browser's back button if you want to choose more than one.
1) Arm
2) Leg
3) Collar bone
4) Rib
5) Once or twice
6) Quite a few times
7) Constantly, it seems
8) My child has brittle bones, so -- oh my, yes
9) Nope, never
10) Other
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1) Arm
2) Leg
3) Collar bone
4) Rib
5) Once or twice
6) Quite a few times
7) Constantly, it seems
8) My child has brittle bones, so -- oh my, yes
9) Nope, never
10) Other
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Comments
Terri,
My sons have poor impulse control - so in one year we had 4 broken bones between 3 boys!!
My middle son fell off his scooter and broke his collar bone, then my oldest son fell off his scooter and chipped his knee cap, then my youngest son feel at school and broke his hand, then my youngest son tried to ride his bike off our front porch and broke his collar bone!
I was so glad that we had witnesses to these mishaps - we had to look suspicious.
Carrie
How do all these children break their arms?
Was happy to see the second biggest entry in the survey was “No never broke a bone”.
The collar bone must have been scary!
Boy, that is a lot of broken arms, isn’t it?
Carrie, I know what you mean about looking suspicious. My son never broke a bone, amazingly; his thing was facial injuries. Between low muscle tone and lousy sensory integration, he used to kind of hurtle through life face-first. He got kicked in the face once for walking too close to where his sister was swinging, fell a few times and hit his face on things and needed stitches. He’s the only kid I know who’s been injured in physical therapy — he was swinging tummy-down in a sling swing and launched himself out of it, face-first across the carpet. It helped that he injured himself with school personnel, too, so they didn’t get suspicious when he came in with an injury from home. But boy, there were days I felt like taping a sworn, witness-backed statement to his shirt so everyone would know we didn’t hit him.