So, for the parents out there... how many times have you told your kids they need to wear shoes when they ride their bikes? I know I have said it at least a hundred times. Well, today Schuyler went to a friends house and when the mom dropped him off she says he had a spill on the bike and got some good scrapes. I am like ok, no big deal he is a boy he'll heal.
Well... I go in the house after talking with the mom and Schuyler is in the bathroom screaming. I am thinking ok, what the heck is the issue now? I enter the bathroom with him in tears... What he had done was ride a bike with out shoes, and ended dragging his feet across pavement. almost every toe on both feet are scraped up, not to mention that he literally scraped the nail to the skin on both his big toes. I spent the next 30 minutes calming him down and trying to figure out how to dress these wounds. Along with the conversation of now to you understand why we tell you to ALWAYS wear shoes???
He will heal, but I now understand why my parents were always so adamant about things. Don't' give up on the kids, they will learn some time!
And sometimes that learning is painful... as Schuyler has just figured out.
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