Don't let the kids get broken

Saying for the day: It is the parent's job to keep their children unbroken until they are adults. But some kids break anyway.

I read in a Kristi’s blog ( The Chaotic World of Kristi) about a great day she had with her children and it brought back memories of my children and the wonderful times we had. She also mentioned the possibility that one of her kids would end up in the ER with broken stuff.

That brought back to my mind four trips to the ER with my kids. There was one trip for each kid and one extra. ( My wife says that Pennie broke some other things but I don‘t remember those).

The first was with my daughter Pennie. She was about three and running across the lawn of the house next door. They were putting a new roof on the house and she tripped over a board. She put her arm down to catch herself and it broke. The break was not obvious but when she wouldn’t stop crying we took her to the ER. Sure enough the arm was broken. She spent most of the summer in a cast . That was really rough for her because we went to Yoggi Bear park and the cast really slowed her down and put a crimp in the swimming (though we wrapped it with plastic wrap so she could sit in the pool).

The next was my son Peter. This time we as parents were blameless. This time the school broke it. He was in gym class (sadism 103). He was wrestling and a boy kicked him in the arm as he had his weight on it and it broke. The coach wouldn’t listen to him. He told the kid he was faking. So Peter set his own arm and when class was over went to the office and called home. Our trip to the ER gave us an x-ray that showed Peter was right. He spent a good part of that fall in a cast. Just shows you what a good education can do for you. We told the school if they let my son Patrick wrestle and broke his arm they get to pay for it. They didn’t let Pat wrestle.

Finally in the arm department comes Patrick who thought he could fly and did, sort of. He jumped from the top of the swing set and was supposed to land in a pile of leaves but he flew over the leaf pile and landed on his arm which snapped. I mean it broke. It looked like the bow on a bow and arrow. We took him to the ER and told the nurse he had a broken arm. She said he doesn’t have a broken arm until the doctor says he has a broken arm. I know there is hospital procedure but some things are obvious. When the doctor finally arrived he put the arm in a cast and it was Pat’s turn to be miserable.

The last visit came with Peter. We talked him out of playing football because we figured it was too dangerous for him and we didn’t want anymore broken bones. We took all three kids to the quarter final football game in Escanaba. During the half he was playing keep away with somebody’s hat when a rather heavy girl stepped on his foot. By the end of the game it had swelled up like a balloon so we ended up in the ER. They were so breakable you couldn’t even take them to a football game without the risk of injury. He spent a couple of weeks on crutches .

At the time these were horrible moments but looking back on them they weren't so bad. We took three tree climbing, bicycle riding, highly active kids and got them through to adulthood pretty much in one piece.

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I ate the last Easter egg this morning. Rejoice with me. I don't have to face another day and another colored hard boiled egg. Now I can start trying to get my cholesterol back down. I have added another link to my links. "Show Them Through Me" has a wonderful set of links to openly Christian blogs that I spent part of the morning looking at. Betty went to Tops and came home very upset. So upset she ate ( this after attending a weight loss group). In the afternoon we put the first building on the outside layout but not in the town. We started getting the ground ready for Pigeon Falls. Tomorrow we may check the tracks which look to be in good shape. Well I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA