DD#2 just turned 4 last week. She is small for her age (she just hit 31 pounds) and is just a hair past 3 feet tall. Obviously she needs to make up for her size because she is CRAZY wild and daring. They were playing outside on our playset this afternoon. I went in for about 2 minutes to grab a bowl to pick vegetables. As I walked back out she took a flying leap off the platform of the playset pretending she was Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. She wasn't too hurt (just scratched herself on the landscape timber a little), but I think I sprouted some gray hairs and gave my heart a bit of a shock.

I am not used to a daredevil, because DD#1 is a scaredy-cat.......I don't know what I am going to do when DD#2 gets to be a teenager.

All I can say is I survived 3 active boys!!! lol :D

LOL! You'll survive!

Invest in some Miss Clairol and some gymnastics lessons...those will teach her how to fall! ;) :)

my son at 5 was wearing a 3t and had a size 4 shoe. he's 20 now and is 5-1/2" and 112#. I know where you're coming from. i was a daredevil.This is what i learned b4 entering kindergarden... i used to jump off the garage roof at age 4. tried plying paratrooper at about the same time with a sheet. Don't try it, it doesn't work. Neither does the Mary poppins thing with an umbrella . i'd mix chemials together, bleach, ammonia, comet, only God knows how i didn't blow myself up. Lit fires with a magnifying glass. did the swing thing too, i figured if i got it up high enough, i could go around in circles. I sympathize with you. I now know how scary kids can be, but i lived thru it. I didn't help i hadan older bro. telling me what to do. the funnest thing i can remember, waas tying a clothsline to the top of one tree and the other end to the bottom a fence and taking towels to put over the line, hold both ends and slide down the rope. that was wild.

My husband and I survived 7 kids.
Not one of them is afraid of anything. And the girls are meaner than their brothers. Once you get past the initial shock, don't show how panicked your are. She will pick up on it and use it to drive you crazy.

I have to keep a close eye on little man because he is a dare devil too. My 2 older ones were not. Little man had a cast on his arm at the age of 2. He decided that it was fun to jump from the couch to the floor when my back was turned. He landed wrong and bent the bone just above the wrist, fracturing it. Kids will be kids but some how they manage to survive despite all their injuries.

St. Johns wort or chamomile tea and some calgon.

If that fails

Tequila. You may be nekkid but you won't care:)

Pray!!!!!


I was a little daredevil too.
Not any more. I know what pain feels like and I am in no hurry to experience it more than I have to. Guess that's why I have so much arthritis at such a young age (a hair shy of 50)

I am surviving 4 kids.....2 are daredevils and 2 are chickens. When I think back on all the crazy stunts I pulled as a kid, I'm thankful to be alive.

You guys crack me up!!! Thanks for the support. Last year we made her a T-shirt after the genie on Aladdin.

Front of shirt: PHENOMENAL, COSMIC PERSONALITY

Back of shirt: Itty-Bitty Living Space

Fits her to a tee!!!! My dad literally fell over when he saw it (thought it was perfect).

I love the T shirt. DGD is small for her age and the some way. She just loves thrills. My son was the same way so I don't worry too much. He still grew up in one piece.

She came along to give big thrills and excitement to your life, whats a few gray hairs, LOL Didn't you always want to be blond? LOL Hang in there!!:)

You're lucky! My daughter was a daredevil, she has three girls who are also daredevils, the youngest is three. Fortunately, no one has had a serious mishap. Maybe because most daredevils have great balance and is very nimble.

My 4 yr old grandson is wearing a splint as we speak because he tried to ride his Flintstone car down the slide. He was ejected from the vehicle when it de-railed 1/2 way down and put his hands out to break his fall. Took him to the ER thinking he broke something. He had popped the ball of his elbow out of socket, which they popped back into place (ouch) and did some soft tissue damage to his wrist.

Glad to hear he is on the mend.

I have 4 daughters ( all grown and married now) My first 3 girls were so good, never gave me any worries then along comes #4 and to this day I still tell her that God knew what He was doing when he sent her last because if she had been first she would have been an only child.

My DGS is 4 & the biggest daredevil you ever saw. He is tough as nails. I was a tomboy growing up. Didn't let being a girll stop me from anything.

Sports, sports and more sports. My youngest could make it across the top rail of the swing set before she was totally potty trained. She survived!! Is working on her Masters right now so she can teach at the college level.

I have 3 boys and remember a lot of shake my head times.

I made it having one real dare devil son into everything and anything. He was 4 boys in one as I told his doctor. Grew up to be rescue diver and a Navy Seal. I tell him every gray hair I really earned.

Yeeps, that's scary! I only have a dog that tries to catch flying bugs, and she went after a bee. We couldn't tell if she had really had contact with it or not (she was wiping at her face), and kept her in the room with us to make sure her muzzle didn't inflate like it had when she was a puppy.

I met a lady who was sure her 12 year old son woke up every day and said to himself; "what can I do to kill myself today?" She couldn't remember how many times she'd been to the ER!

Be glad you were not my mom, Evel Kneviel was my hero and I would for years (and still to this day) jump things on my bike.

First it started off with my Schwinn Stingray jumping metal garbage cans then BMX started taking off and I raced and jumped with them. Now at 44 I still go to the BMX track or mountain bike trails and still ride like I did back then. I have two BMX bikes I still ride (GT and a Diamondback) and its just what mood and what I want to do tells me which bike to take.

Billy

My son was the one without fear in my family. He scared me to death, he didn't know what the word fear meant. We were in the emergency room so often that they actually had a social worker come in and talk to my daughter about how all these "accidents" were happening. He is now twenty-two and still pushes the envelope with mountain bike riding, I don't think about it.

Oh I have a 2 yr old like that. Scares the crap out of me! His older brother was and is the same way. The 2 yr old has figured out how to get on the trampoline, and he loves it. He also doesn't want anything to do with his tricycle...he rides his 4 yr old sisters bike! I feel for ya! lol

My oldest GS is 8, and in his very short life the child has had a broken arm, which he got at 2yrs climbing up a bunkbed ladder and fell. He swolled a coin larger than a half dollar,and yes he went to the hospital to have that retracted.He loves to climb trees and my daughter said one of the first things that he did when they got to Panama was he climbed the tree that was at the school.To top it all off he is showing his two little sisters how to do all his stunts. Daredevils come in all sizes and gender. We just have to pray that God will help us look out for them.

Oh yes I can relate have two grown children 1 boy now 36 and one daughter now 34 don't quite know how I got thru their growing years, ajaxed my living room (4,3) made snow in same room by opening couch cusions with sizzors at same age, next year son decided to try out his GF heart pills, and DD thought she was big enough to walk to Krystals down peachtree st in downtown altanta,ga to get chicken legs by herself. Well that is the short list, I just keep saying the Good Lord Please let me get thru the years and I am sure MM said the same about me every day.
retiac

you should have had my first 3 sons.. I don't know how I ever lived throught them.. at about 12 yrs old my oldest decided to hit this hill in the yard just right to see if he and his 4 wheeler could flip and land back on the wheels... I'm sitting in the yard with my dad and all of a sudden dad starts screaming, michaels flipped his wheeler..by this time I had learned I just got up from my chair slowly and turned around just in time for michael to jump to his feet and go I'm ok mom... now these were my oldest 3, I have 6 sons and 5 daughters and I think my youngest 2- girls 5 and 7 yrs old are going to be just like the first 3..

I, too, raised 7 kids. Yours and mine. The only "ours" are furry babies that meow. Two of them were girls, and they were as tough as the boys. I have 4 of them as Eagle Scouts - lots of avenues for adventure there. Being a nurse, it took alot to take them to the ER - I've put in stitches at home, and they all survived. I personally believe that adventurous kids grow to more motivated and interesting adults.