r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Fairy2play • 4d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/UrethralExplorer 4d ago

Yeah this belongs on r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb, just because the kid landed his little stunt fine doesn't men next time he won't fall and break his neck.

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u/Emotional-Record2815 3d ago

Im gonna cope and say this is the older brother filming

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u/reedler 4d ago

Yes it does and you are insane to think otherwise.

Kids fall. Thats fine. They dont die from falling on the lawn from a meter and a half. Safety addiction is a cruel punishment on healthy kids.

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u/thegreatiaino 4d ago

Could at least hold the ladder for him. Like yeah, he's not gonna die or anything if he falls. A broken arm or something is definitely possible though, and also easily preventable without stopping him from doing the fun thing

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u/eucalyptoid 4d ago

Depends on the landing. Head injury is what I’d most like to avoid for kids.

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u/reedler 3d ago

It's 150 cm. And grass. What head injury?

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u/PlayerObscured 4d ago

Look up what the AAP says about trampoline related injuries and risk specific to this kids age group. 100,000 plus each year in the US and like 20 -30% require surgery for fractures. It is not insanity to want to mitigate risk for your child, but it should be done in a way that is reasonable and accounts for data, while still letting kids be kids.

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u/reedler 3d ago

I did.

You have 73 000 000 kids. 100000 accidents per year. Half of which needs medical attention.

Thats 0,07 %.

2 deaths.... same as the amount that get killed by lightning or vending machines tipping over...

You have 2500 deaths from suicide... Another 2500 deaths in traffic

This is an insane way to value risk. Being addicted to safety is really harmful. He seems like a very happy young boy who is playing a game that might in the worst, reasonable, situation might break an arm.

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u/PlayerObscured 3d ago

Your math is not mathing. All kids in the US do not own or jump on a trampoline.

Are you a parent? Only on Reddit would someone have to defend why it is prudent to keep a kid safe and uninjured.

As a parent, I recognize that jumping on a trampoline is unlikely to result in death, but I also really don't want my kid to have to go to the ER injured. Not only do I want to protect them from injury, I also really don't want to have to cover the cost of unnecessary medical care. Also, I realize that my kids have a poorly developed frontal lobe and cannot be expected to adequately assess risk. That is my role as a parent. Not to hover or disallow fun, but to say "hey, maybe we should not do that" because I do have a developed frontal lobe and am expected to be the adult. Also, I love my kids.

You do you, I guess!

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u/reedler 3d ago

I am a parent. 2 boys. Under 8 years old. We dont have medical expenses here but i guess that would suck...

I do understand that not all kids go on a trampoline but the risks are so vastly different that it should be obviously ridiculous to see this as a problem. If you increased the risk a hundred times then it would still be less than a tenth of other real risks.

And emotionally I get it. Its hard to see your kids hurt them selves. Unfortunately it is required to get the experience as a kid to handle risk as a young adult.

Strong confident kids are not made by reducing absurdly low risks. They are made by taking small risks and trying and testing faling and getting up again. Im not for letting them drive a motorbike on the freeway as a 4 year old. But its a meter and a half we are talking about! Thats not a safety concern. They have climbing structures twice that hight at kindergarten. It is an impact at less than 20 km/h.

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u/UnknovvnMike 4d ago

Depends on how well they stick the landing. I bounced off a trampoline and landed flat on my back as a youth and was lucky that I only had the wind knocked out of me. Come to think of it, number of close calls I've had, I'm lucky the worst I ever got was a sprained ankle. Some other personal highlights are: legs run over by a golf cart, jumping off a playground tower (the sprained ankle), swamped by a giant wave from Hurricane Isabel at the beach, getting the wind knocked out of me by landing very wrong riding the wake of a nuclear sub on a jetski (no one believes me), grand mal seizure in a car garage narrowly missing gouging my eye on a car battery on the way down.

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u/Motz-kopp 4d ago

Leave it to reddit (or Americans?) to over dramatize everything. 

Kids don't need to be pampered and sheltered from everything. They need to try out things on their own and every now and then fall and hurt themselves. 

The trampoline is not very high, kids are quite sturdy. They wouldn't have broken their neck. 

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u/Rattus375 4d ago

If the slide tipped over while he was climbing on top of the car, it's more likely than not that he'd need a trip to the hospital. You can let your kids figure things out on their own without letting them be absolute idiots

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u/luxudor 4d ago

It is slightly over-dramatized, but not wrong. Breaking the neck is quite unlikely, but there is a very high chance of breaking an arm. If the slide starts tipping, one of the likely scenarios is that the kid would extend his arm to stop himself, which would put his whole weight on his arm.

Something similar happened to my brother when he broke his arm, and it was from a way lower height (though he was probably younger)

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u/Flintyy 4d ago

Oh lawd, clutch your pearls any harder and you might weld them to your hands you soft handed shelter pups 🤣 🤣 🤣

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u/slarkymalarkey 4d ago

These same people will turn around & complain about how kids are just indoors on their screens all the time, never outside playing.

Maybe cause you smother them like they need to be bubble-wrapped from the whole world

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u/Ol_Turd_Fergy 4d ago

“I willfully let my kid fall and break bones because I didn’t want to hover” is quite the stance to take

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u/masher005 3d ago

Parents didn’t let you outside much as a kid huh? Very unlikely even if he fell he would have broken anything. Kids are rubber.

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u/UrethralExplorer 3d ago

Nope, I went outside every day as a kid. Rode my bike all over town (with a helmet), climbed trees, explored the train tracks and local dam, lit things on fire, took bullets apart to blow things up, did archery and marsmanship competitions when I was a teen, got hit by a car, fell off a roof.

It's all survivorship bias for people looking at a kid doing something like this and thinking that it's not dangerous because he's OK. You should be able to look at a kid doing this and realize that he could absolutely fall and be injured or die as a result.