I know it is part of life and likely we've all fallen down stairs at one time or another but seeing your kid do it and not being able to stop it in time is heart breaking.

I took my 2 year old to the museum of natural science this week for the first time and I guess because we don't have stairs and don't often encounter them he really wanted to go up and down the stairs. (Feels like I paid $30 for my kid to go up and down stairs!) Some times he let me hold his hand, sometimes he wanted to hold the railing/wall. Well he decided he didn't want to hold my hand down one flight of stairs and grabbed for the railing rather than the wall and started down before I could stop him. Going up that method is fine but going down isn't because he doesn't move his hand with the step so the railing becomes too tall for him going down. Well, lo and behold, tumbling/rolling down he goes. Of course all that came out of my mouth was "F***! F***! F***!" and there is a mom and her three adolescents in front of us. I felt bad for my language and I felt worse for my boy. He now has bruise on his cheek and some on his legs (they were granite stairs) but seems no worse for wear. My nerves were totally shot though.

Have you had traumatic stair moments yet?