Don't worry- Sam is not injured. He is wearing his new 'safety visor'. Out of his concern for Sam's frontal lobe, Greg crafted a little padded headband for him. Sam is inclined to falling into things headfirst. I think the combination of him walking somewhat early (9months- before he really could understand actions and consequences), genes and his zeal for life has made him accident prone. The past two months he has sported a continuous (and colorful) bruised goose egg right in the middle of his forehead. It is occasionally accompanied by neighboring bruises and scrapes. Hitting his head really has become a daily thing. He recovers from the falls, bumps, pushes, wacks pretty easily and, developmentally, seems fine. He is more mobile and verbal than the other two boys at the same age. Last night he started jumping and he says 'dup' while doing it. But Greg is very concerned so he went and bought some athletic tape, pre wrap and used some high density foam from his kayak to make Sam a little cranial crash pad. For the most part, Sam seems to like it. Greg is requiring that he wears it at all times around the house. He ran into the table today and just bounced off, landing on his rump. So it seems to work. I think it is interesting that the people most concerned for Sam's head seem to be Greg and Papa. The two of them have more nicks and dings on their heads than anyone I know. There must be something in them that knows, better than the rest of us, that trying to stop Sam's attraction to daring (or stupid?) situations will be harder to curb than just to establish some cautionary measures to keep him safe during the dangerous learning curve of childhood. I've always been of the mind to occasionally let the boys (with in reason and supervision) toy with little bits of danger in order to experience the unfavorable consequences. This has worked wonderfully with Noah, begun to break down with Wyatt and I totally threw it out with Sam when he touched the oven, burned himself, cried and then went back to do it again less than 5 minutes later. Some boys just have it in their flesh to crave adrenaline despite the pain that might go with it. We all harbor some sort of desire for self destruction no matter the outward harm. I guess I'm glad that Sam and Wyatt's are so easy to see and that I have Greg and Papa here to help them understand and control it. Maybe they won't fall of cliffs or water towers or ride mechanical bulls or get in the way of swinging shovels, etc. Or at least they will always be wearing helmets!!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Like Father, Like Son
Don't worry- Sam is not injured. He is wearing his new 'safety visor'. Out of his concern for Sam's frontal lobe, Greg crafted a little padded headband for him. Sam is inclined to falling into things headfirst. I think the combination of him walking somewhat early (9months- before he really could understand actions and consequences), genes and his zeal for life has made him accident prone. The past two months he has sported a continuous (and colorful) bruised goose egg right in the middle of his forehead. It is occasionally accompanied by neighboring bruises and scrapes. Hitting his head really has become a daily thing. He recovers from the falls, bumps, pushes, wacks pretty easily and, developmentally, seems fine. He is more mobile and verbal than the other two boys at the same age. Last night he started jumping and he says 'dup' while doing it. But Greg is very concerned so he went and bought some athletic tape, pre wrap and used some high density foam from his kayak to make Sam a little cranial crash pad. For the most part, Sam seems to like it. Greg is requiring that he wears it at all times around the house. He ran into the table today and just bounced off, landing on his rump. So it seems to work. I think it is interesting that the people most concerned for Sam's head seem to be Greg and Papa. The two of them have more nicks and dings on their heads than anyone I know. There must be something in them that knows, better than the rest of us, that trying to stop Sam's attraction to daring (or stupid?) situations will be harder to curb than just to establish some cautionary measures to keep him safe during the dangerous learning curve of childhood. I've always been of the mind to occasionally let the boys (with in reason and supervision) toy with little bits of danger in order to experience the unfavorable consequences. This has worked wonderfully with Noah, begun to break down with Wyatt and I totally threw it out with Sam when he touched the oven, burned himself, cried and then went back to do it again less than 5 minutes later. Some boys just have it in their flesh to crave adrenaline despite the pain that might go with it. We all harbor some sort of desire for self destruction no matter the outward harm. I guess I'm glad that Sam and Wyatt's are so easy to see and that I have Greg and Papa here to help them understand and control it. Maybe they won't fall of cliffs or water towers or ride mechanical bulls or get in the way of swinging shovels, etc. Or at least they will always be wearing helmets!!
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