Oh - the angst !

I was the same. With my own, I just got on with it. With my granddaughter, I watched that poor child like a hawk and followed her from room to room

When my youngest was a toddler I left her with a dear friend while I went to work one afternoon, she took her to the local park, and she fell off the top of the slide, her face was grazed and swollen, and she had a black eye

I never held it again her

More recently I had my granddaughter at a water park, she slipped on a step , and her face smashed into the step above, blood everywhere!

I'm another one who has lost her nerve around young children! My grandson (age 4) went on a very high inflated slide which already had me in a flap, and then - the little blighter took off with a great big leap on to it instead of carefully sliding down on his back. This meant that he bounced down it whilst I had a mini heart attack.

The fact that I let him fall out of his pushchair at 6 months (strapped him in incorrectly) hasn't helped my nerves! Thank goodness for it being winter and lots of padding so no harm was done ...

Yes it is horrendous when they hurt themselves in your care. I think I tend to overcompensate and rush around after them! At a country park last weekend and there was a huge slide. 2yo DGD wanted to go down again and again so went sitting on my knee until DD saw and told me she could go on herself with someone at top and bottom to catch her! I still had my heart in my mouth and ended up clunking my head making sure she was sitting properly!! She is a daredevil and wants to do everything her 5yo brother does!

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Yep! I love my GC but I need eyes in the back of my head - and everywhere else when the little one come round - and the bigger ones too on occasion. I find it exhausting! DH is very laid back but I'm on tenterhooks. Luckily our son and daughter and the son and daughter in laws are all pragmatic too - but I just feel the responsibility [worry emoticon]

Face planted? Fell on her face ?

We watch out two like hawks to the extent that my husband and I keep a beady eye on one each! But with the best will in the world accidents will happen. Trips, bumps etc.

We feel so bad if anything happens when on our watch. Luckily our daughter is pragmatic about it all.

It's always more worrying looking after other people's children even if they are your grandchildren. We have all been there hazel93

No, I think it is happened to all of us. We live some distance from DS and family so opportunities to take DGD out by herself for the day were not many when she was under 5.

When we did we took her to the seaside, she slipped on some seaweed, grazing one thigh from top to knee, on an adjacent rock. The grazing was very light and looked worse than it was, but we wondered whether we would ever be let out with her again.

We were.