We have a huge 15 ft trampoline. Big friggen deal, right? Yes...it is a big deal if you have spawned seven children who love to defy the laws of gravity (even if only for a few seconds) and attempt to make Evil Knievel look like a pansy ass sissy lala. But hey, we have a safety net so it is fine.
Fine if you don't have circus freak type children who look up and realize that the top of the safety net also acts as a tightrope/springboard. But I do. And they did. So they shinnied up the poles, positioned themselves atop the "safety" net and took turns jumping off. If it would have been a legitimate circus act with professional acrobats, I would have been impressed. But it wasn't and I wasn't. I almost crapped my pants when I looked out the window and saw little bodies enthusiastically hurling themselves from a twenty foot high net and being catapulted back into the air by the anti gravitational force of trampoline springs. I could only envision a whole emergency ward of Prescotts in full body casts and CPS hauling me away for negligence.
I made them descend back down to ground level and gave them a lecture on the purpose of a safety net. They looked very unimpressed. So I used the computer to show them pictures of kids in casts and laying in the hospital. I thought that surely it would scare them into keeping their jumping limited to the trampoline mat only. Daniel junior just looked at me and asked, "Do those casts come in colors, cuz if I could get a red one that would be sweet!"
I wonder if Evil Knievel's mother had to be heavily medicated while he was alive?
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Oh my...sounds like the things my kids did when they were young...and you know a few of them are still pretty daredevilish like that as young adults...I swear to god no fear in these kids!
Both of my boys had casts, many stitches, sports injuries...they were proud of every one of those! One time I recall them pulling an old mattress out of the garage and laying it in the yard next to the house...I caught them standing on the roof, just before they were planning their big jump onto the mattress!
Oh the things these kids do to us!
Get rid of the trampoline.
omg your seven sounds like my two. Dayumn what kind of drugs to you take. My two were enought to make me gray headed and slight off lol.
Thankfully, I only had 2 boys to keep up with, but some of the things they did still give me shivers. Like the time they put a zip line up in a tree and tried to use an old weight bench part as a handle. (Note: the straight ones WILL slide to the side and leave a rope-burn on the side of your hand that will scar for the rest of your life)
Or the time I wouldn't buy them a snowboard (we live in the South, duh) so they "found" a street sign, bent it up a bit at the tip, tied their feet to it with an old phone cord and decided to WAX it as well. Yes, you can get up to speed going down the hill next door. No, you can't stop the thorny vines from attacking you as you pass and inserting themselves into your face.
Or the time that I got a new couch and while I was visiting a neighbor, their DAD agreed that it would be a good idea to jump from the roof onto the old couch. He even thought it was a good idea to videotape it and show it to me when I got home. He was wrong. ;)
Good luck with yours kids! I have a feeling that 7 of them can come up with a lot more ideas than my 2 did. LOL
Ohmagawd! Can't believe that boy didn't even wait a beat for the lecture to sink in.
And I bet the woman was a drinker as well.
Are you sure you don't have a phillip's kids in your group? My oldest would have said the EXACT same thing.
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