Observing a nine year old and a four year old
Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 3 months ago to The Gulch: General
My wife and I didn't have children and we agreed to watch her nine year old nephew and four year old niece for a few days. Some things should be obvious but never having been parents it was a learning experience. I realize now that giving a nine year old boy a squirt gun when he has a four year old sister is a bad idea. I now know that when a nine year old says he won't torture his sister he means turn your back so I can torture my sister. I am now aware that a four year old girl doesn't think that a lawn mower and circular saw running at the same time should stop her from talking. She simply needs to talk LOUDER. Disciplining a four year old girl with big blue eyes is really really hard. Ice cream is not a vegetable. The best part was one day when I had to run a quick errand. I took the nine year old with me. I turned on the radio and told him to find something to listen to. After hitting five of the pre set buttons and passing up three classic songs he tuned in Glenn Beck. He said "awesome, can we listen to this?" I wiped away a tear and said "you are the chosen one...yes we can listen to this.
We never did any swearing around the kids. Six year old son furious at his eight year old brother wanted to swear at him, but the only words he knew were those he was picking up at school. He didn't get it just quite right. Furiously looking at his brother, he screamed "You asphalt!"
Even now, in the back yard we have a faucet with two hoses and I dare my wife to step outside... She has two brothers, so she knows better.
I have three nieces and three nephews and I look at coins at a gun store that sells PINK BB GUNS. My sister would have a hard time with that...
Glenn Beck?? Moving from Albuquerque to Traverse City, I had the cats with me and I learned to like both Country _and_ Western because when I tuned to Glenn Beck, they started yowling. Cats are great judges of character.
C&W is low on the list, but it keeps the cats quiet.
sadly, Dagny succumbed to some cat disease early in her life
I came and started reading the gulch to calm down. Was just watching Stossel go on about SWAT teams, and he showed a video where they raided a house, you heard the gunshots, heard the dog yelping in pain, and the homeowner shouting, "you shot my dog!"
I can't say what my reaction would be to that, because I'd be arrested before dawn, with the new internet police. (one guy got a SWAT raid because he quoted a line from "Fight Club" on Facebook...)
Now I gotta go read something else to calm down again... :(
Right or wrong, that's how I feel.
(A child will grow up to be a human, a puppy will grow up to be a dog. Dogs have always been good to me... can't say the same for humans...)
Funny about Glenn Beck. Unexpected. :-)
I have trouble trusting people who call leftists who're on the side of those trying to destroy the republic "my good friend".
The southern border 'children' remind me of the fall of Saigon. I was stationed at NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, a first stop for the refugee flights. Being a Corpsman of course I got assigned to a flight to do medical for the 'children'. The youngest kid on that plane was 17.
Put the army on the border and escort the 50 million illegals home via military convoys. If the liberals in the Dark Center dont like it then move all the illegals to New York, New Jersey, DC, and Connecticut (with apologies to the rational minority in those states.) It would be hard to turn the votes any more socialistic than they already are there. Let the NY Fed pay for them.
Shocker. [/sarcasm]
Or for someone with a whole bunch of kids like me, not so much.
I refused to watch "Breaking Bad" because its protagonist, IMO, and from the trailers, appeared to be a moral reprobate.
But, "Satisfaction" is despicable.
I imagine, however, it's a favorite of many Gulchers.
wife, for cursing out her grandmother, and never lived
it down. it probably contributed to my desire never to
have kids with that family, from mom-in-law's response --
and that contributed to the divorce. it was not a good idea. -- j
http://youtu.be/-_IlNbsILLE
last chance for my family name to continue, by
leaving. the 18-year-old wife was absolutely
wonderful, but at 33 she didn't want kids and I did.
neither of us ever had any.
Thank You for your vote of confidence, but it still
makes me fog up. -- j
But, in order to marry a woman who can still safely have kids, I'd have to marry a woman nearly half my age... not a likely prospect...
Lord knows I've waited long enough for her.