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Two days ago, my 4 year old shouted "belly flop" and then jumped face first from our porch step onto the sidewalk below. The results were predictably gruesome. The main injury was three large gashes in his lips where he bit through the lip, but blood also gushed out of his nose and (more lightly) from his forehead, knees, and elbows.
This is one of my favorite events to happen so far as a father. (And I actually mean that literally.) It perfectly captures for me the idea of just how stupid/innocent kids are (and presumably I once was). I'm also really proud of the little guy for taking his injury in stride. There was lots of crying for 30 minutes or so, but once we got him cleaned up and bandaged, he was back outside playing with his brothers again. He's been showing off his injuries to all his little kid friends and making sure they know not to belly flop in the sidewalk too.
I hope this is not some asinine tik tok thing. He must have recently been around a pool or watched someone around a pool? A cannonball might have been less painful. But possibly more damaging. The good thing is kids have less distance to fall. My youngest son, at very young age, after repeated warnings not to run on the slippery tiles surrounding the hotel pool, proceeded to do just that, fairly quickly losing his footing and falling backwards onto his back and head. But he was small and was right back up fairly quickly.
Yeah, there's a scene in The Jungle Book 2 where Balu does a belly flop. They've been obsessed with that movie for the last month or so... acting out all of the other scenes... and they finally learned that cartoons aren't real life...
I cannot believe what kids take away from movies.
I was really sensitive to letting my kids see anything at age 4.. Then a friend invited us over to watch My Neighbor Totoro and I thought surely this completely harmless Studio Ghibli movie with no bad guys, no violence, no anything but cuteness would be fine. Surely.
Then the next day my wife went for a walk on her own and left him with his older brother. About ten minutes later the to 4yo slipped out the door without older brother noticing. Mom was on her way back from her walk and found him, three blocks away(!)
4yo was re-nacting the scene in Totoro where the older sister runs around the countryside at length looking for her lost younger sister. Except looking for mom.
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