Click it or risk it
By Heather
I noticed a toddler girl flip out of her stroller and do a face plant on a sidewalk this afternoon. Ouch!
She was surrounded by both parents and an auntie and uncle, so what went wrong?
Rewinding the scene, you would have seen something like this:
- Mommy sets her daughter in the stroller while also juggling shopping, diaper bags, and a lunchbox.
- Daddy steps in to push the stroller from the store
- Away they go
Nobody buckled the stroller’s 5-point harness seatbelt.
It’s tempting to skip the buckle on a stroller for an older baby or toddler, especially if you know you’re just going to let them out again in a second. But it’s never a good idea.
In this case, the little girl landed on her face and got a fat lip.
As my husband and I were debriefing about the scene, we immediately recalled two similar incidents with our two-year-old Milo:
- The time Milo was buckled in but had no brake on his stroller and rolled off the front porch
- The time he tripped over his own rain boot and landed on his face for a similar fat lip
What’s my point? Everyday actions can result in accidents. Safe habits are what mitigate risk. To keep our families safe, we ought to check and re-check.
Does anyone have any similar stories that they’re not too embarrassed to share, so that we may all learn from them?
I saw something about this on TV last night