That Coffee Table is Gonna Kill Your Kid! (Not Really)

Geek Culture

This poor child bears the mark of her mother's failure. Wait… that's my kid!

An article appeared recently in the New York Times with the headline “With Kids and Coffee Tables, It’s Trip, Fall, Ouch.” The article goes to great lengths to warn parents of the dangers of having a coffee table in the home.

OK, yes. When we were little, my younger brother went to the emergency room because of an altercation with a coffee table. And a survey of my fellow GeekMoms reveals two of them have coffee-table related scars. Another has one from a chair. Another recalls crashing into the media console. I myself had a run-in with a bit of shrubbery. Do you see where I’m going with this?

To read the rest of Amy’s post, including what happened to cause those bruises on her daughter, visit us over at the GeekMom Blog.

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