We go through band-aids in my house. I have three kids, and although they don’t get hurt often, they just love band-aids. They’re like stickers. They go and stick them on everything, and for one little cut, they might need…oh…five band-aids. So then they get an actual cut, and don’t have any more band-aids. This happened to my little girl. She broke a ceramic cup and then cut herself on a shard. It was a pretty good cut, flapped a piece of skin on the tip of her finger. Bled like crazy with her screaming that she needed a band-aid. I scramble for anything handy, which happens to be a tissue, wrap her finger and send her off to the bathroom while I look for a band-aid. I grab the fist-aid kit which happens to be a mexican food restaurant lunch box. All that’s in it are a bunch of alcohol swabs and a band-aid sleeve. I grab for the next best thing, a paper towel and a roll of scotch tape and head off for the bathroom.
I try to use the whole experience as why we shouldn’t play with the band-aids and medical tape.
Happy New Year at any rate! May your year be filled with many, many band-aids for your boo-boo’s.
I hear you on the bandaid addiction thing. As a green type person, I try to tell them that it “hurts the earth” if they use bandaids when they don’t really need them, but (strangly) this has no effect….I think I’ve over used that card!
Oh my gosh, they won’t get it either. My little girl obviously didn’t get the whole medical tape thing either as she is currently trying to fix a piece that broke off the train set with it. Oh well, train had a boo-boo.