# How many people were dropped as a small child? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 2, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343 "2014-02-02T13:24:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/1 "2014-02-02T13:24:50Z")
I know it must happen, carrying a squirmy little one and he/she gets out of the hold and drops to the ground taking a hard fall. I’m wondering about the frequency that this happens, is it that most people have been dropped, or just a small number of people? I am particularly interested in the %age that takes a very hard fall, one that they would associate with pain and then perhaps shows fear/insecurity in being held after the fall. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/2 "2014-02-02T13:30:35Z")
I don’t know that a hard fall from a parent’s arms would make a small child be afraid of being held. If we are talking about the age when a 4 ft fall is a “very hard fall” we are talking about very young babies, ones that are held much of the time. I am not sure they’d identify the “being held” as the stimulus that led to the fall. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/3 "2014-02-02T15:18:12Z")
I entered the Earth’s atmosphere pretty hard the first time I attempted it. That hurt. Caused some fear. Fear is the Mind Killer. Next time, I sheared off momentum with an Earth/Moon\* loop maneuver first. \*Moon = Earth’s large natural satellite. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/4 "2014-02-02T16:19:36Z")
I was, at least a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/5 "2014-02-02T16:39:53Z")
I spent the first three years of my life working as a ball for the Harlem Globetrotters. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/6 "2014-02-02T17:41:50Z")
My older daughter hit the younger one in the head with a hammer when she was a baby. We think that explains a few things. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/7 "2014-02-02T19:57:31Z")
Bet’s that 's more common with first born kids? ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/8 "2014-02-02T21:11:33Z")
My sister dropped me when I was three days old. She was ten… and remembers it like it was yesterday. I tripped carrying my five month old son. He hit his head pretty good, and I still have a wicked scar on my hand. But as far as I know, he didn’t make the connection between falling and being held. It seems all he wants is for me to hold him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/9 "2014-02-02T22:17:28Z")
My daughter was dropped. Twice. Sorry, kiddo. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/10 "2014-02-02T22:27:06Z")
My college roommate claimed that he had fractured his skull when he was less than 2 years old, after his uncle accidentally dropped him on the sidewalk. My college roommate was really weird. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/11 "2014-02-02T22:32:49Z")
Despite extensive circumstantial evidence to the contrary, to the best of my knowledge I was never dropped. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/12 "2014-02-02T22:40:36Z")
My mother wiped out her bike with both my sister and I on the back when we were very young. I have no recollection of this incident, but I do associate it with the local library, since my mother was traumatized enough to bring it up whenever we went to the library. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/13 "2014-02-02T22:49:34Z")
You could probably expand that a bunch - my friend’s kid has been lifted overhead in to the tailgate of the minivan on at least one occasion. :smack: My parents flipped a sled on me when I was x months, and I don’t mind skiing. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/14 "2014-02-02T23:25:13Z")
My dad put me in a car seat precariously perched on a pile of newpapers on top of a waist-high cabinet. I kicked myself off, landed on a concrete floor, and cracked my skull open. I’m fine now _twitch_. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/15 "2014-02-02T23:41:04Z")
I fell off a bed after being left there unsupervised…my grandmother turned her back, and I rolled off. I was tiny when it happened. There was no lasting damage, other than my mom being really, really shaken by the event. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/16 "2014-02-02T23:48:56Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > My older daughter hit the younger one in the head with a hammer when she was a baby. We think that explains a few things. I used a golf club (9-iron, IIRC) on my older brother. I _did_ yell “fore” before I swung. Took 7 stitches to close his head wound. Your kids are pikers. Consider yourself lucky. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/17 "2014-02-03T00:28:24Z")
I was 3 when we moved into our new house. They still hadn’t put a railing on the basement stairs. So I fell off the top step, landing on my head onto the cement basement floor. I remember them taking me to the hospital. I have no idea whether there was a diagnosis or anything. Yes, that can explain a lot.😉 ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/18 "2014-02-03T00:49:05Z")
My nanny gave me a penetrating wound below the lower lip. The two-stitch scar is visible 50 years later. It sprouts hair, which is a bother if I use a straight razor when shaving. I gave up and switched to triple blades. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/19 "2014-02-03T01:56:54Z")
The first time I walked on my own (they tell me), I got out of my crib, walked past my mother (who was talking on the kitchen telephone) and right to the basement door, which had been thoughtfully opened by our dog. I promptly fell down the stairs. Twelve of them. They rushed me to the doctor, where my father told them to x-ray me. “What part of him?” “ALL of him!” As far as I know, it didn’t affect me adversely. This is why they make kid skeletons out of cartilage. I’ve had plenty of other bad things happen to me as a kid. I’ll tell you about them sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343/20 "2014-02-03T03:58:16Z")
I was. Explains quite a lot… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-were-dropped-as-a-small-child/680343.md?page=2)