Dave Land wrote:
When Ryan was about waist-high, we were out at a park and I bent over
at the waist to put my hands under his arms and pick him up. So my
face was coming down pretty fast towards the top of his head. At that
same moment, he received a message from his home planet that right
now would be a really great time to help dad by jumping up into his
arms. I was pretty sure he broke my nose. Then I was pretty sure that
he had knocked out a couple of my teeth or at least split my lip. He
was pretty sure that I had bitten through the top of his head. As it
turned out, none of those things had happened, but the two of us were
not in a particularly cuddly mood right then.
Mine get the message that when you're sitting in Mommy's lap is a Really
Good Time to throw the head back. Mostly I've taken it on the chin.
(Literally.) But it's really rotten to have a kid screaming as a result
of something he (or even worse, she -- Catherine has a really, really
loud scream) did as you're holding said kid, and smarting from pain
yourself.
Julia
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