Things Happen

Today my two year old granddaughter fell and got a great big goose egg on her forehead. It was an accident, pure and simple. Her mother rushed her to the emergency room just to make sure everything was ok, no concussion or other hidden injury. It was one of those moments of high drama that I remember happening from time to time when my own kids were little. I raised nine children, and if there is one thing I can tell you for certain sure, things happen. You can take your eyes off a child for three seconds and something can happen that fast. My daughter once unbuckled herself from the high chair and fell out backwards, conked her head, and got a concussion. I remember my husband rushing out the door to take our daughter to the emergency room in a state of panic. It is almost ironic that my daughter's daughter has now repeated history by falling and getting a bump on the head. But the long and the short of the tale is that things happen. It doesn't make you a bad parent, or a negligent parent or anything else. Children are curious, active, and fearless. That combination is all you need for something to happen. Someday this will be one of those "when you were little" stories that we love to embarrass our children with.