Accident prone 3 year old.?

Question

My 3 year old daughter is very active and also very clumsy. It seems like everynight, she does something to injure herself. I took her to the doctor today because she was having trouble walking to find out that she pulled a muscle in her leg. Tonight, she was running around in circles and fell into the corner of the coffee table and has a big cut above her eye now. Last week, her hand hit the wall when she was spinning in circles, and her knuckles were red and swollen for a couple of days. Earlier this year, she ran into the glass patio door and ended up with a swollen,bruised nose. I am afraid that people are going to start thinking that I abuse her... which is absolutely not true... is this typical for this age?

Answer 1

It's typical for every age of a growing child to be clumsy. Think about it this way. Your child goes to bed at night and wakes up the next morning bigger. Children are constantly growing. The doorway she ran through yesterday with ease is SMALLER to her now (though she doesn't realize that) and she is more likely to bump into it. Their feet grow like crazy. My daughter wears shoes a few times and it's up to the next size before they can be worn out. Imagine trying to walk on your feet tomorrow if you woke up and suddenly they were bigger. I'm sure we would be tripping over ourselves too. I guess what I'm trying to say is that being clumsy for a child is merely them not adjusting too well to their growing body. Most grow out of it. Some never do.

I also believe that some of the bumps & bruises that occur are just out of the child's sheer energy and curiousity. They go barrelling toward the toy or prize that they see across the room without noticing the dangers that lie in the pathway. How many times has your daughter tripped over your foot and fell in the floor? Mine does it all the time! They don't notice things like that.

Answer 2

I have a son who is five now but at three he had some balance issues at first I thought it was a leg issue but the doctor assured me his legs are fine (he would be running and just fall forward onto his tummy) Then I thought it might be his ears though he has never had and ear infection he has had trouble with allergies so I thought maybe from time to time fluid might be building the doctor said that was possible..We also took him to an eye doctor and found out he was as blind as a bat!! When they tested him he was found to be near sited...at a -8 level very high for someone his age..so now he wears glasses and he seems to not fall as often though being a boy he tends to get ahead of himself sometimes and bumps into things but nothing like before..maybe she needs to have her eyes tested too..Good Luck and remember these days they grow so fast.

Answer 3

that's so funny, don't worry. I was like that till I slowed down at about age 12.

People though my parents were abusing me because I was in and out of the hospital all the time with casts and stiches and so on.
Once I started school though they knew it wasn't my parents becuse I acted the same way. I was just a very active clumsy kid. you don't get hurt by sitting still like most of the youngsters these days.

Answer 4

a girl I dated one time had the same problem with her little girl and is still true today takes her skating and she comes home with buries all over her legs. So relax I know some people jump the gun and may think or report some thing but she knows how she was hurt and will tell it. Also take her in and talk to a doctor and tell him he may have some idea of how to slow her down a bit.

Answer 5

dont worry it is very typical for a 3 year old, they are a walking accident, my sisters little boy is 3 & he is for ever falling & tripping & hurting himself, no sooner has one cut or bruise gone when he falls again, it is because at their age they are to excited & hurry about, BUT they are not really use to darting about,
BUT, the g,p, & hospital can tell the difference between a accident & abuse so just tell her to slow down & be careful, & of course be there with the hugs & kisses, good luck,

Answer 6

you have a normal wild child, when they grow up you'll have taught her everything because she will push you to push her to greatness, so you have to lay it all out now,ahlemier is in old people but this is close to the same thing in reverse and i lived through it, stone age before the mercury injections, but good teachers could have made introduction in to the lock-step-methodologies they they were in fact puppets them selves to the system,had no real want to encourage anyone because they were in line of lock-step-you can mostly see if you can go that fast to give her the play mate and second i had no hard objects any where once you've seen this, that should ring the bell to empty the house out and be ready to play guardian angel for the rest of your life,i had three of them and i would not have it any other way, but it is trerriably fast. in six years they are ready to on the world or they are left to bewilderment (end of the nice stuff) next:::or you can drug a kid with Ritalin, kinda kill brain cell too. but they say that they want to slow the hyper-one down just because the learning curve of attention span is much higher than, where the slow not even close to the boring levels of education, and they ask to give 3 or 4 of these 15mil. tabs a day til the kid looks like a zombie but the teachers love it and the kids don't really learn in there own level with there class they are special needs and there are more way for a hyper-kid to wear people out than there are books equal to the task of understanding it, so that no child left behind is curved to accept them and they don't they make underachiever out of them and it's ruthless Any way because if your different it never works out.

Answer 7

If in fact you are not abusing her and showing your concern online may some day cover your a** you could have an overactive child. See doctor's and get her slowed down some.

Answer 8

Yes it is all three year olds have more energy than they know what to do with . don't worry give it a year and she should calm down a little.. untill then keep a good eye on her.

Answer 9

Don't worry if that's not true.You are the mother and you know whats going on w your little one, Some kids are like that, she'll learn.
Or maybe she needs glasses........