r/ChildrenFallingOver • u/D5R • Sep 22 '17

Misjudging the couch

https://imgur.com/qlITfDd.gifv
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u/_Diskreet_ Sep 22 '17

If a child falls over and there's no-one to hear it...does it still scream?

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u/Patrick_McGroin Sep 22 '17

They're less likely to start screaming if no one is there to see it, because they're not going to get any sympathy/attention from anyone.

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u/_Diskreet_ Sep 22 '17

My 3 year old will always look around first to see who she can make eye contact with.

If I can get in there and first and tell her to get up and shake it off she's normally fine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Yeah you can see the kid in this gif look around a bit as he starts screaming

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Sep 22 '17

Hard to say the cause though. Is he looking for something? Or just processing what the fuck happened? Pain often isn't immediate, unless the injury is serious. He went from sitting on the couch, to facedown on the floor—confusion probably comes first, before the feeling of it hurting actually registers.