Little Biff Is A Little Soldier

**Biff** · 25th February 2005, 16:14

"Hello Mr Biff, could you please come and collect Little Biff from school please? He fell over at break time and has hurt his arm."

"Sure, I'm on my way"

Hurt his bloody arm!! His arm looked like it has been put through a mangle. Snapped in bloody half more like. Broken elbow and possible hairline fracture to his lower arm. He's all plastered up now and munching a pizza on the sofa.

All he could say when I picked him up was, "Does this mean we can't go swimming in the morrow?" (his word for tomorrow).

No tears, just a grimace. My little soldier. Bless him xxxx

**crashe** · 25th February 2005, 16:23

yee gawds..... thats not good at all.
Did you get him to hospital then they told you it was broken?
Its not good of the school......
If it happened on the jungle gym, was there a teacher on duty?
If not why not?
As that is where most accidents happen at school.
They tend to fall off it at the wrong angle and land awkwardly..

Hope he is ok now and the elbow isnt hurting him too much.

Give him a painkiller of some sort about half an hour before he goes to bed...
that way the painkiller is just starting to work and he will then drop off to sleep.

Monday morning go to the school principal and tell him/her that you arent happy with the supervision in the school grounds....

**Biff** · 25th February 2005, 16:29

Originally Posted by crashe

yee gawds..... thats not good at all.
Did you get him to hospital then they told you it was broken?
Its not good of the school......
If it happened on the jungle gym, was there a teacher on duty?
If not why not?
As that is where most accidents happen at school.
They tend to fall off it at the wrong angle and land awkwardly..

Hope he is ok now and the elbow isnt hurting him too much.

Give him a painkiller of some sort about half an hour before he goes to bed...
that way the painkiller is just starting to work and he will then drop off to sleep.

Monday morning go to the school principal and tell him/her that you aren’t happy with the supervision in the school grounds....

Teacher saw it happen, "in slow motion". I don’t have a gripe with the school, kids will be kids. Apparently they didn’t tell me he'd broken it as they didn’t want to panic me (!?), and as I said I would come straight away anyway...

As a newbie here I was advised to I should take him to the doctors first (waste of bloody time), doctor then sent me to a local hospital which turned out to be private. Had the X rays done there ($$), then I was told I'd have to take him into ChCh city because they couldn't plaster him there (more time wasted). Live & learn.

Thanks for the advice

**Rainbow Wizard** · 25th February 2005, 16:32

Little Wizard befell a similar fate yesterday. Arsed over in a backwards race and broke one of the forearm bones "greenstick" so is not as bad as Little Biff's bust. He's plastered now and would have been lopsided for todays 100m sprint final (he won a heat yesterday). He's usually a grief merchant but I guess doing it at school he felt he had to be tough. Well done that lad.

**MikeL** · 25th February 2005, 16:33

Originally Posted by crashe

Monday morning go to the school principal and tell him/her that you arent happy with the supervision in the school grounds....

Or you could wrap him up in cotton-wool all the time...
Do you really blame the school/principal/anyone? Some accidents will happen and unless you want to deny kids the chance to have fun and explore the world the odd broken bone is the price you/they have to pay.
Do you seriously believe that having a teacher on duty will prevent all accidents? If you took your child to a playground and he had an accident, would you blame yourself? The local council?
Kids make mistakes. That's how they learn...

**Joni** · 25th February 2005, 16:37

Sorry to hear your little one got hurt... he sounds like a tough little guy! Children are great....

Hope he heals quickly with no problems!

Good luck Biff....

**crashe** · 25th February 2005, 16:39

Originally Posted by MikeL

Or you could wrap him up in cotton-wool all the time...
Do you really blame the school/principal/anyone? Some accidents will happen and unless you want to deny kids the chance to have fun and explore the world the odd broken bone is the price you/they have to pay.
Do you seriously believe that having a teacher on duty will prevent all accidents? If you took your child to a playground and he had an accident, would you blame yourself? The local council?
Kids make mistakes. That's how they learn...

The point I was trying to make, is on the jungle gym area there are so many kids and some tend to get a bit rough.... so they need to have a teacher on duty in that particular area.

Yes kids will be kids, but if you can prevent an accident happening then lets do it.

The principal needs to be informed of the type of break, so that the teachers are also informed so little Biff dont hurt it any more til it heals properly.

Some schools dont have that policy to watch certain areas, while others do.

**sAsLEX** · 25th February 2005, 17:03

Originally Posted by crashe

The point I was trying to make, is on the jungle gym area there are so many kids and some tend to get a bit rough.... so they need to have a teacher on duty in that particular area.

Yes kids will be kids, but if you can prevent an accident happening then lets do it.

The principal needs to be informed of the type of break, so that the teachers are also informed so little Biff dont hurt it any more til it heals properly.

Some schools dont have that policy to watch certain areas, while others do.

they dont even have real jungle gyms anymore, where are the forts and shit of yester year where a fall could of been fatal, replaced with plastic shitty boring 2ft high excuses for playgrounds.

Shit like this is breeding our race weaker as kids get there hands held and aren't allowed to learn on there own behalf. oh poor tommy got a cut quick to the hospital for his shots, no wonder there is shit like MSA or whatever that super bug is called

If it dont kill you it only makes you stronger/wiser

**Hitcher** · 25th February 2005, 17:07

Another cool thing about being a kid these days is when you break limbs and shit, you get COLOURED casts! And colour choices! Woo hoo!

**Motu** · 25th February 2005, 17:17

My boy broke his arm last year,or maybe the year before - it's his 12th birthday today - but it was a totaly bizzare stressful day for me.

My mother was in and out of hospital being diagnosed with cancer - then one afternoon I get a call...''can you come and pick me up? they can't do anything with me,they are sending me home to die'' Oh shit,I was expecting this,but it's something you don't want to hear..ever.I'm at work so I reach to phone my wife to see if she can go and pick up my mother and take her home,she has been on standby waiting for just such a call for weeks - but as I reach out the phone rings,and it's my wife! ''Hey,I was just going to call you,can you go and pick up Mum? she wants to go home''....'well,that's not really possible right now,I'm in an ambulance on the way to Starship - Jack has broken his arm' WHAAAT??

So I jump in my van,race off to Middlemore,pick up my upset mother and take her to her sisters place in Otara...then after work go out and pick her up and take her home to Waiuku - I practicaly dump her at her place,just make sure she's ok and then race off to the brand new Starship to see my boy.He has just come out of the theatre with pins and wires in his arm,he's awake enough to say hi.We get my wife set up to spend the night with him and I take my younger son home with me.

Sorry for the thread highjack,but the day my son broke his arm is burned into my brain as a day from the twilight zone.

**Skunk** · 25th February 2005, 17:40

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Another cool thing about being a kid these days is when you break limbs and shit, you get COLOURED casts! And colour choices!

And for crybaby adults like me...

Hope he got a coloured one and is OK (in the long term...)

**jrandom** · 25th February 2005, 17:42

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

oh poor tommy got a cut quick to the hospital for his shots, no wonder there is shit like MSA or whatever that super bug is called

I gotta idea.

As we all know, people is dumb, right?

Howsabout we improve the evolution of smartness by shooting everyboddy in the head when they born, and then we lets the ones that still passes bursary before they turn 18 breed. Rinse and repeat.

**sAsLEX** · 25th February 2005, 17:58

Originally Posted by jrandom

I gotta idea.

As we all know, people is dumb, right?

Howsabout we improve the evolution of smartness by shooting everyboddy in the head when they born, and then we lets the ones that still passes bursary before they turn 18 breed. Rinse and repeat.

would work except they have replaced bursary with NCEA and even if you dont complete the exam you get a passs or whatever they call it these days