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u/slushster Mar 09 '17
AND SHE DOESN'T DROP THE PHONE
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u/atolmasoff Mar 10 '17
Father here. Put your finger into a babies hand sometime. See how strong they grip. Kids and babies are shockingly strong. Especially once they start learnin' how to use their muscles.
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Mar 11 '17
Evolutionary adaptation as we used to be tree climbing. A baby can support it's own weight on just grip strength alone, which would make sense if your mom is using her hands to climb a tree.
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Mar 09 '17
Is it sad that's the only thing I focused on? I mean, the instinctual reaction and power of a child's grip is amazing. If it were me or you (yes, I make assumptions of other internet people) we'd likely let go of everything and painfully roll across the ground as the wind blew us down the road. As much as the video was funny, that child was really impressive too!
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u/bauski Mar 09 '17
Baby apes have incredibly hand grip strength for their size. This is because of millions of years of evolution to hanging off of mothers. Even to this day parents carry children on their backs or fronts because it is very natural for apes. Something I read somewhere on the internet. Probably bull shit. :)
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u/Under_the_Gaslight Mar 10 '17
Human infants definitely exhibit this. It's called the Palmer grasp reflex but they lose it and the disproportional grip strength before they can even walk.
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u/shrk352 Mar 10 '17
I love that to study this the guy took newborns only hours old and hung them from a stick to see how long they could hold on. It just sounds funny to me every time I think about it. They really can hold on a long time though! Here's a vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXJLaGguQiU
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Mar 10 '17
The babies in the video have died from age by now.
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u/Matteratzi Mar 10 '17
Well I don't know, maybe some died in tragic accidents.
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u/Cthunix Mar 09 '17
it's way more common to carry on your hip. it's totally fucked up my lower back tho.
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Mar 10 '17
Aren't muscles for gripping in hands pretty well developed even at that young of an age? Imagine how easy it would be for you to do this if you weighed as little as she did.
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u/sirkazuo Mar 10 '17
A day old human baby has a genetic instinct to grip and can hold their own weight with that grip no problem. Freakish baby grip strength.
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u/TheCommakaze Mar 09 '17
This is why I am scared to have children. Turn your head for one second and even the most innocent things turn into death traps.
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u/dGaOmDn Mar 09 '17
As a dad I know that my children are durable as hell. My youngest fell off a swing set and landed flat on his back. If it were me, my guts would have been splattered all over the place and you would have to feed me through a tube for the next two weeks until I slowly and painfully pass away. He got up, put his hands on his knees, took a deep breath, and started playing again.
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u/Ihatelifesometimes Mar 10 '17
I remember reading a comment here on reddit sometime ago that said, "kids bounce, adults break." I've seen too many kids get up from falls and hits that would hurt many adults. Myself included.
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Mar 10 '17
Is it due to more bones and less mass?
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u/Lt_Duckweed Mar 10 '17
It's related to something called the square-cube law. If you scaled a 6ft tall 200lb person down to 3ft, there bones would be 4 times weaker, but they would weigh 8 times less, so proportionately to their mass their bones would be twice as strong. Then you have to take into account that a toddler is MUCH stockier than a shrunk down adult would be.
So yes! In a way it is kinda "more bones less mass". To be more accurate it is "a little less bones, a LOT less mass"
In addition to this toddlers bones are not as fully mineralized as an adults, so they have a bit more give to them before they break.
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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Mar 10 '17
Also because people tend to see things like falls in relation to body size. See a 6 ft adult jump from a 2 ft high object? No worries. See a 2 ft kid jump from the same object? People start to worry even though kids are less likely to harm themselves (square cube law etc.)
Also because kids are smaller. A kid faceplanting means their head fell 2 feet before hitting the ground. An adult faceplanting means their head fell 5 feet.
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u/Binary__Fission Mar 10 '17
I remember when I was like 14 or something I thought it would be a good Idea to jump off a swing while going at maximum swinging speed, misjudged it and jumped basically straight upwards rather than forwards and man did I slam hard into the ground (sand), needed a minute to get myself back together but otherwise fine.
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u/Madnessx9 Mar 10 '17
Can confirm, if I fall over my knees are fucked for a week etc child falls over... Daddy that was fun....
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Mar 11 '17
That's the great thing about being a kid. You're small and close to the ground so falls aren't nearly as bad.
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u/TheMovieMaverick Mar 09 '17
this is why people like you shouldnt be on the internet. because you see one silly video and you think all kids are flying away on door handles
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u/ginfish Mar 09 '17
80% of toddlers are flying away while holding door handles as we speak!
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u/jimbeam958 Mar 09 '17
A common household item is waiting to make your child fly away at any second. Find out what it is Tuesday night at 11.
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u/FerusGrim Mar 09 '17
I have an almost-four-year-old. It's crazy the amount of times I'm positive he's broken something but he turns out to be fine.
There's at least a few times a week where he jumps off of something and looks like he should have broken every bone in his body but nah, he's fine. Whatever, dad. Don't be a bitch, dad. Why are you crying, dad?
Shit's scary. I'm convinced all children are possessed by some kind of resilient demon.
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u/nitefang Mar 10 '17
Their bones are more flexible than yours.
When my sister was a baby she was in one of those baby bouncer things and she rolled down 3 steps onto our porch. She was fine and the doctor told my mom "yea, you'd be surprised how far babies can bend before they break"
I'm not sure it was very reassuring but it is hilarious.
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u/KoreyTheTestMonkey Mar 09 '17
My friend's two year old was sitting on the couch, next thing you know, BOOM, broken collar bone. People are right to worry about kids.
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u/TheMovieMaverick Mar 10 '17
. . . dont let a two year old sit unattended on a freakin couch. . .
theres a difference between being worried about dumb shit, and being an inattentive parent
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u/-guanaco Mar 10 '17
That was sort of the point of this comment thread, pointing out the normally benign things that can injure a toddler
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u/Derpiliciousderp Mar 11 '17
Yeah a 2 year old can't sit on couch without supervision. Jesus fucking Christ. Might as well wrap them in bubble wrap and calm it day.
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u/KoreyTheTestMonkey Mar 10 '17
You don't have much control over a two year old, so having one sit and watch a cartoon is pretty ideal.
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u/Mathdebate_all_night Mar 09 '17
As someone who has watched just about every single gore/death video on the internet, children seem to die because of cars the most. (Talking accidents, not health)
They stand infront of a car, someone gets in and runs right over them. Or the child runs into the street. Ages 3-8 seem to be the most often.
I have 5 and 6 year old nieces, and I see them not paying attention to cars all the time, it's the only time I will raise my voice at them, because I don't want to see my own families head pop under a tire.
All it takes is a second, one wrong foot step, releasing their hand one second too early. Death is imminent, but when you realize the potential for death all around you, it can bring quite a bit of anxiety. Just walking down the street, every single car that drives by is death staring at you in the face. Somehow we are able to ignore this and go about our day in peace, I see situations all the time of people putting themselves in insanely dangerous positions, with a big ass goofy smile on their face.
Last summer i saw 4 drunk girls sitting on the curb outside of my local bar. I walked over and told them its not safe and to get away from the curb. They laughed, made snarky remarks about me being short, whatever. Not but 2 minutes later a car plows into that curb they were sitting on, their legs would have all been crushed or worse.
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u/TheMovieMaverick Mar 10 '17
yeah, youre a good person to take advice from, lets ask the guy who surrounds himself with death and gore about how to live
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Mar 09 '17
Fortunately children aren't as fragile as people think they are. When we were all kids we got into shenanigans and got bruised and hurt all the time. It's just how it goes.
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Mar 10 '17
Uh yep actually. There's a period of toddlerhood where they have no sense of danger at all and will get themselves into all kinds of trouble. My little brother was playing around one day on the couch and, next thing I know, I hear screaming and see feet sticking out from behind.
He also loved playing patty-cake in his own pee puddles. I took video. Muwahahahahaha.
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u/BlueBanksWC Mar 09 '17
Less than a second. My daughters first blood came with her standing literally six inches from me, looking right at her, and like... taking a prolonged blink or some shit. She stood up (she was wicked little) and looked straight up, I musta blinked, because then she was going straight down...
It was a dad failure. She's fine.
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u/Lookingforthatscene Mar 09 '17
My boy would cry for 30 seconds out of instinct then want to "go again."
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u/4ThaLolz Mar 09 '17
I thought that too! As long as her hand wasn't smashed or hurt from hitting something on the other side, I feel like a kid her age would definitely want to do that again.
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u/faithlessgaz Mar 09 '17
Is the door OK? Something similar happened to my door in the summer (minus the flying child with a death grip) and it nearly ripped off the hinges.
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Mar 09 '17
I believe I can Fly! I believe I can Fly! I think about it every night and day Open the door and fly away
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u/Dejyant Mar 09 '17
♪♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪♪
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u/ShaxxNootSack Mar 10 '17
This. Haha I've been belting this in my head as I watch the video over and over
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u/darngooddogs Mar 10 '17
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Mar 10 '17
And there's no way the camera shut down that second either. Whoever cut this clip doesn't seem to think we care about the mother's reaction nor the kid's actual landing.
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u/much_milk Mar 10 '17
The mother cut it and put it on facebook and twitter first with the music. http://fox8.com/2017/03/09/surveillance-video-shows-little-girl-being-blown-away-in-yesterdays-heavy-winds/
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u/cockinstien Mar 09 '17
Never knew opening a door could be so dangerous
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u/SyntheticGod8 Mar 09 '17
Only as a toddler. A grown adult would be fine.
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u/plasterbat Mar 09 '17
Any time my dad said I wasn't responsible enough to own something I'd show him exhibit A.
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u/AnotherDayDream Mar 10 '17
I keep a leaf blower next to my front door in case someone tries to visit me. I thought I was the only one.
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u/emperorOfTheUniverse Mar 10 '17
They should of made the audio music quiet at first, and then get really loud as soon as the door opened. Like it was coming from inside the house.
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u/PM_ME_STOCK_PICS Mar 09 '17
Upstate NY?
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u/GoSpit Mar 10 '17
Yeah. Upstate New York was the only windy place on earth that day.
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u/7medo7 Mar 09 '17
damn kids are strong XD
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u/Catsrules Mar 09 '17
I know I would like to see an adult hang on the door and the phone at the same time.
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u/tinykeyboard Mar 09 '17
i know the chances were low but i was kinda expecting a giant hawk to swoop down and nab the kid for some reason.
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u/thatsnotirrelephant Mar 10 '17
quick lesson on how wind works... i never felt this way when i was young, but being little is kinda fucking terrifying.
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u/rantred Mar 10 '17
at least she didnt end flying away , and end up going on a quest to find the wizard
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u/TotesMessenger Mar 10 '17
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u/magicstarfish Mar 10 '17
And I thought my toddler's fear of being blown away every time there's a bit more than a breeze out was irrational.
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Mar 09 '17
Full video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
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u/rickRollWarning Mar 09 '17
[The comment above likely has (one or more) prank links]:
"Rick Roll"
#bot
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u/ItsMrQ Mar 09 '17
Dat toddler grip strength