Recently some good friends of ours gave us a call to come down and look after their 2 other children as there 3rd child had tripped and fallen into the front glass door. I live up the road so went straight there, when I heard an ambulance had been called my brain didn’t connect with the seriousness of it. I was thinking as I was going down there it can’t be too bad! Well when I got there I saw a jagged hole where the glass use to be and then I was told it was bad! Still didn’t think much of it, the mother was looking after the 2 younger ones as the father was looking after the older injured one. They knew I wasn’t good with blood at all, and they made sure they kept him away from me.

I heard them say I hope this never happens to Pyper – and I thought damn I don’t think I could cope if it did! What can I do to avoid this happening in our house. We all like running around and playing etc but where there are people there are accidents.

With Children especially there will always be lots of accidents as they learn right from wrong. But I wanted to then make sure when I got back that things were picked up off the floor, it even occurred to me to put in double glazed glass – not a cheap exercise so crossed that off my list. But what we did do was to become more observant about what we could and should do to make sure all of us don’t have any accidents.

So if you’re a father our there have a quick look around your house at any unfinished projects or things that could be potential accidents for your children and fix them up.

Our friends little boy went to the hospital when the Ambulance came and then went to another hospital to get the tendon’s checked in his arm, they are hoping he is going to be ok, but he is only just starting to wiggle his fingers so only time will tell.

Take care out there

- Scott

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