My horror story that ruined a friendship. I was watching my friends son, like I usually do. I fed him and my four kids lunch. The second they sat to eat I hurried to the restroom. Before I was out I heard my friends son crying. When I ran out to see, he had cut the side of his knee pretty badly from a glass that was shoved between the sofa coushins where I was eating cherries. All the kids had left their meal and began to jump on the sofa where he fell and landed on the glass. I agreed to help by the bills because I knew she didn't have medical. After a few days she stopped giving me updates and stopped calling comletely. I called at least once a week and left text messages. I had no response. One day, exactly three weeks she sends a text saying that she is suing me for the medical expenses because she claims that i had not contacted her. My renters insurance sent her 1000.00 and she says it isn't enough. Can she sue me?

Accidents happen...and I'm sorry but the milk thing was the PARENTS fault. Not your husbands fault. If my son has an allergy of some sort and someone else is watching him then you can bet I will write it out what exactly he is allergic to and that every adult who will be watching him knows what it is. It is the parents job to make sure that their kid will be okay in someone elses hands. Luckily I have yet to feel that sort of regret.

My son had a play date and we went to the park with the Parents permission. Two 7 year old boys. My sons friend was playing on the monkey bars and did not want to continue going further on the bars and let himself go and landed on his head. I turned my head for a second and next thing I knew he was laying on the ground crying. I rushed to him to see how he was and he said his neck hurt.He was never unconscious and got up right away but still crying. I immediately called his mom and she said to just bring him home. When he got home the boy said it hurt to walk and we both got concerned.When I left the house with guilt I called to check on him and they were on the way to the ER. This worried more and offered to help pay the bill if they did not have insurance. After 2 hours he was released with only a sprain neck and docs said he would be better in a couple days with some rest. I live in Wisconson. 1) If I help pay the bill, can they sue me? 2) If they except the payment can they sue me? 3) Can the even sue me? And does this guilt go away? Hope to hear from someone.

I had the worse experience possible. It was a beautiful spring day and all the neighbor kids seemed to be playing in our back yard on the wooden play set with a slide.(You know the ones with the canvas tops and the big slides) One of the neighbors had 5 kids and they were there with thier youngest brother who was about 2. I was sitting on my deck watching them all play, and when I was speaking with another child, the two year old boy, apparently fell off the back of the deck where the slide was. Probably an 6-7 foot drop!!! I ran over, there were tears, obviously, but the older siblings shushed him and took him home. He had calmed down, so I ignorantly assumed he must be OK. I didn't know these neighbors very well, and only found out a couple days later that the poor boy had in fact broken his arm from falling off our playset! I was mortified that the parents must have thought I was horrible for not taking him home or following up about his injury. I went over to thier home to apologize and they laughed it off. I guess after five kids, you are used to things happening. But I still feel horrible about it many years later.

This incident happened before I became a parent and was working in a daycare. It was shortly after I started working at the daycare. I was working with the preschool aged children so the girl was probably around 3 or 4. We were playing in the indoor "gym" which was just a carpeted room with a tube slide, and some basic equipment like balls, ride on toys ect. One of the kids went down the slide head first and because it was a tube slide I couldn't possibly have seen how she entered the slide. When she exited the slide at the bottom she face planted and drove her 2 front teeth upwards breaking the gums. At least I think that's what happened, it was too traumatizing to complete register and there was a significant amount of blood. I never moved so fast and was horrified by what happened. The next time she came to daycare she came without her 2 front teeth and her Mom was sooo understanding, reassuring me that her daughter was accident prone and that it could have and would have happened on anyone's watch.

I think the only thing worse than having someone else's kid get hurt on your watch, is when your kid does the hurting. Watching your child beat on another child is AWFUL, much worse in my experience than watching another kid beat on your kid. No. Fun. Oh, and sort of off-topic but the whole ER bill thing makes me glad to be Canadian. No such thing as an ER bill here, it makes things much easier. Or, at least, it eliminates that issue.

The parents of the boy asked me very tentatively when the ER bill came. It was weird for all of us. I guess it made them feel better, and since we really screwed up bad it made sense. We've had other kids go from the house to the ER with bleeding and whatnot, but fortunately their parents have always been here, so it wasn't so much on my watch as it was on my property. The milk was bad. The worst really. I still feel awful about it.

I really don't think it was necessary for Jessica to pay the ER bill, and I find the fact that the parents asked tacky. What I want to know is how old was the child? To be at someone's house with such a severe allergy the child should be aware of any health issue they have, and be responsible enough know their limits. If it is an issue, which in this case it clearly was, perhaps the parents should be more careful and have playdates at their own house. Moving on, accidents happen, I have 3 sons and we have had, broken bones, stitches, glue, various plasters and surgery. Each and every one of them accidents. The fact that people are willing to leave their children in my care is a miracle in itself with my boys track record. But they do, because they, like me, realise that accidents happen and when they do you deal, then move on. That is life. In fact this weekend I have 2 extra bodies in my care while their parents (my brother & sil) take a well deserved break. Having said all that it would not stop me from feeling guilty if something happened to a child in my care, luckily for me that hasn't happened....yet.