MsFacetious
What a Kerfuffle...
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My kids had plenty of bruises and cuts and scrapes. They played and played rough sometimes.
I never said that if a child gets hurt then the parent is 'bad.' If so we would all be bad parents. My little grand daughter has a deep scratch across her cheek right now. She just learned not to corner the Kitty Cat in the laundry room. Lesson learned.
But if Lucas was 'always' getting injuries from playing with older cousins, then he shouldn't have been playing with them, unsupervised in the back of a truck, in my opinion. Sorry if that seems judgmental. It just seems more like common sense to me. If it was a one time thing, then it would be understandable. But it seems like it was a terrible pattern that could have been prevented with some basic common sense.
Because if the kitty were to repeatedly scratch or bite your granddaughter, they would be kept separate so that could not happen again.
Common sense. Repeated injuries coinciding with a person/animal/location/activity should be prevented. By eliminating whatever the cause of the repeated injury is.
Certainly there are times that's not possible. Like a child with an overbite might repeatedly bite their lip. However if they are repeatedly biting their lip because they fell down while tripping over garbage on the floor.... that can be at least reduced by cleaning up.
Absolutely kids should be kids. However, precautions should be taken to ensure they survive being kids.