Is this irrational?
8e honest, I can take it 
We eat all of our meals in the dining room as a family. The ta8le that I have now is really not my style at all and I would like to get something to replace it. 8ecause my kids are so young, I don't want to invest in something super expensive 8ecause it is going to get very used. My dining room is quite small, is long and skinny. I was thinking a8out getting a glass top ta8le to kind of open up the space instead of having a huge piece of furniture in the middle that just weighs the room down.
So, here is my question, I have this fear of my kids running into the edge of the glass top ta8le and getting severely injured, the ta8le 8reaking and them getting cut up. This is a completely irrational fear right? I mean, they have just as much chance of running into the edge of a wood ta8le right? Or would the damage really 8e worse if they were to run into the glass ta8le?
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Re: Is this irrational?
I don't imagine that the glass would break but I'd imagine that the kids would get pretty banged up by it. You could just make sure that the one you chose has rounded edges.
I will say that I used to have a glass coffee table and got rid of it after the kids came along. Not because of them getting hurt on it but because it was ALWAYS dirty. I'd clean it and not a minute later it would get smudgy with fingerprints again. I'm a little anal about stuff like that and it drove me insane to the point of donating it.
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DD #2 - 03.13
Christmas 2011
We had a glass coffee table BEFORE kids and it was literally always dirty. Don't recommend.
(We also had one when I lived in Chicago after college and it actually did fall and break...so it's not unlikely to happen).
I wouldn't have one, ever. We had one when I was growing up, and that thing NEVER looked clean. Fingerprints, smears, dust, all of it shows. Maybe if it were in a dining room that is used 4x a year, but as a family table with little kids? I would be miserable.
And I would be concerned about safety with little ones, too.
DS - December 2006
DD - December 2008
It is NOT an irrational fear. My sister had a glass topped breakfast table for years. It was a pretty expensive one, as well, not something with cheap glass. A couple of months ago, her husband was simply getting up from his chair. He pushed himself up by placing his hands on the glass top and the top shattered. I'm not 100% sure of the details because during the telling, I had to leave the room because it was too upsetting, but his arm went through the glass, and he was cut badly. It hit a major blood vessel and required major surgery to stop the blood flow and save his life. The stitches looked horrific. She took pictures of the breakfast room afterwards. I didn't want to look at them, but H said the whole room was covered in blood, like something out of a horror movie. My sister said his arm was geysering blood like a fire hydrant, and SHE nearly died from a heart attack.
I would never have glass furniture, kids or not.
ETA: She didn't literally have a heart attack. You know what I mean.