Well, mine do...pretty regularly. Here are a couple of favorites at the moment.
The kids love to hunt up every pillow in the house and pile their loot at the bottom of the stairs and then plummet from the stairs into the fluffy mass. This one concerns me because (besides the minor possibility of broken bones) there is also a lip on the wall at the bottom of the stairs. Logan has earned himself more than one black eye by smashing into that lip while simply walking down the stairs. Imagine the facial damage if he face planted after a flying leap. It wouldn't be pretty...but the danger seems small, so we pile pillows and jump anyway. It's too much fun to resist.
Our second death-defying (maybe slightly exaggerated) favorite feat is "swing surfing." Gavin and Parker like to take our skateboards and balance them on our swings and then ride the imaginary waves. The combination skateboard/swing is not super stable (surprising, I know) and the boys fall a lot, but they love it and I figure they probably won't break themselves so I just cringe and look the other way. Sometimes finding that balance between paranoia and harmless childhood adventure is tougher than...swing surfing.
What things do your kids do that tickle your worry nerve, but not enough to make you stop them from enjoying it?
Jessica told me about this post, because we used to do the stair jumping all the time. Well, I was more of a spectator (never really a dare devil). But Ashley and David would pile up the blankets and pillows and Jessica and Matt would jump down. I'm sure at one point David and Ashley judged their jumps and gave them scores. We all survived :)
ReplyDeleteI know your pain :). Jay puts bicycle helmets on my kids and lets them use the crib mattress as a sled down the stairs... So Many cringing moments during those stunts! Actually, I like the pillows idea! Maybe I'll feel less afraid if they land in a pile of pillows. (They usually just have whatever laundry is left unfinished down there. :)
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