Kids and accidents……part of life for parents isn’t it? My kids have had stitches thanks to accidents. No broken bones, lots of cuts, scratches and bruises though

Ummm, I don’t know that this is very accurate. Kids will always have accidents as they grow up as a result of poor cognitive and physical judgement. I actually think the number one cause of childhood death is brain cancer. But I guess it depends on the research and stats you are using.

Tend to agree with another mom on here that we should let children explore and play on equipment at an earlier age so that they learn resilience. Otherwise we might have to ban cars in the future so they don’t fall out of them or under them.

Maybe the playground equipment needs to be modified. It’s worrying to think that we send our kids out to play on the equipment never thinking they could be injured. Scary thought

This is a worry, thanks for sharing.

Was surprised by this, thought it would have been CHD!

I wish someone could show the stats from previous decades too. So often from older people, I hear that kids use to play on equipment that was extremely dangerous, sure kids got hurt but …..
Just because your kids were lucky or you didn’t have contact with kids outside your little area, doesn’t mean there were only minor injuries and no deaths. These safety measures came about for a reason = To prevent the stupidly high incidence of accidents.

Playgrounds have been modified over the years to reduce injuries, so I’m surprised that there are still so many children getting hurt or dying.

I am not surprised as children do get injured from growing up and participating in sports and hobbies and other activities.

Yep, my 2 had a few injuries. A swing to the head, floating face down in the pool, a flying fix in the eye, dog bite, falling over……….the list goes on. Kids get injured no matter how vigilant parents are.

No injuries for us at the playground luckily. The only thing a little scary was that once my daughter (6 back then) once fell from the scooter and scraped her all nose.

I was lucky that my son was not a risk taker like some kids. He wasn’t adventurous at the playground and like the more sedate play options. His favourite was for me to push him on the swing. Whilst I know of many kids who have had playground incidents, we were lucky to miss that phase.

At the end of the day kids have tenancies to be accident prone. As a parent you just have to do your best to not let them do anything wildly dangerous.

No, none of our kids suffered serious injuries at a playground / park.

I think that safety of our kids very important to be serious about it

No my child hasn’t has any major injury but I could see how easily it could happen.

We have overprotected our children. They are no longer capable of making accurate risk assessments. I know it is counter-intuitive, but we need to start backing off our children from a younger age so that they learn how to use their bodies safely.

maybe signs could be put up at parks to remind parents about the little things like this (wearing jewellery etc) so that the parents can help to ensure their child’s safety

We’ve been so lucky to avoid playground injuries so far but I’m always so worried letting my little one go off to play. I feel silly being so paranoid but after reading these statistics it’s clear I’m right to be concerned.

knock on wood my children havent gone through something like that. it was more of the bully side that my kids have coped, now that has effect my son mentally. he finds crowded parks too overwhelming. i guess parents should be aware of necklace on playgrounds, what kind of damaging it can happen to children.