What would you do?

Hello,

I wondering if anyone can help me decide what to do. Our 4 year old daughter has a platelet count of 16,000. She has been invited to a soft play party where the main thing there will be a bouncy castle. We always say she can't go on bouncy castles unless there happens to be no one else is on it. However, she really wants to go to the party and I feel bad saying she can't go, but it will be no fun for her if she can't go on the bouncy castle. What would you do? let her go to the party, but tell her not to go on the castle, don't let her go to the party, or let her go and go on the bouncy castle and tell her to be careful and hope for the best!!

I don't think there is a right answer here, but if it were my kid, I'd let her go, tell her to be careful, and hope for the best. My thinking is that she is only 4, so the other kids are unlikely to play very roughly. I would be tempted to stay at the party though to keep an eye on her.

Having said that though, we came up against a similar situation recently where my son wanted to go to Alton Towers with his class, and we ended up saying no because we felt we couldn't trust him to stay off the wilder rides. I felt really mean.

Difficult decision......good luck with it!

Thank you for your reply Alison.

I'm still slightly undecided, but I think I might do as you suggested. My worry is that it would look really bad if she hit her head and we ended up at hospital and I told them I let her on a bouncy castle!! I don't know if older children are also going but hopefully not and then it shouldn't be as rough. Although saying that my daughter loves rough play and she doesn't understand (or rather chooses not to accept) that she must be careful! Since she was diagnosed in October she has had on average one overnight stay at hospital every month due to a head injury!!