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freeny those completely cracked me up. seems my son is in similar habits as yours. Sometimes people may need to hear it though. ;)

e.g., an old friend of mine [no longer speaking] used to have a disgusting cat that pissed in her house. <gags> That is the foulest smell on earth and she smelled like it most of the time, it drove me nuts. Well one day when she was over here she asked my son for a hug. He said NO. When she asked why he confidently replied: "Because you stink. A lot." Sad, but true and she needed to hear it.

He loves to watch me squirm. He's told people that what they are doing is "not real bright" and that they are "funny looking" and "old". He also told a cashier to "please just hurry up".
When driving he occasionally senses some frustration in me and blurts out things like: "YOU IDIOT!" or "PICK A LANE, DUMBASS!" which instantly makes me laugh, in an embarrassed sort of way. :eek:

There's one story that just happened that is hilarious, but I am far too embarrassed to tell it.

When I am about to leave the house, he always asks me "Do you have the cell phone?" and usually he offers to give you one of his toys to take with you. He loves Thomas the train and likes to give you trains to take, to help you out with whatever you are doing. I think that's pretty cute.

He unfortunately know a couple swear words (much to my horror) but sometimes I can't help but laugh. At my friend's house playing with her 2 year old EXTREMELY BRATTY daughter they had a doctor kit. He took the stethoscope and put it somewhere near her heart. A silence followed by a very serious sounding "oh crap!". Boy, he had her pegged. He also calls her a "drama queen" and it's absolutely true.

Well there, normally I am not very fond of parenting or gushing about kids, but there's a fair bit from me.
 
Actually, that was a very touching post. Really. :)

But one thing bothered me:
iBlue said:
When driving he occasionally ... blurts out things like: "YOU IDIOT!" or "PICK A LANE, DUMBASS!"
I'm not sure how to take it, but, depending on what you meant, I have to possible replies:

(1) I think it's very wrong for you to let him drive [if he was driving], or

(2) I think it's terrible for him to talk to you like that [if you were driving]; please know that you're not an idiot, no matter what he says.

Edit: but the image of your son driving, veering wildly, shouting those things... it cracks me up. :D
 
jsw said:
Actually, that was a very touching post. Really. :)

But one thing bothered me:

I'm not sure how to take it, but, depending on what you meant, I have to possible replies:

(1) I think it's very wrong for you to let him drive [if he was driving], or

(2) I think it's terrible for him to talk to you like that [if you were driving]; please know that you're not an idiot, no matter what he says.

hardy har har. :p

(what, you don't think he's ready to drive the huge SUVs we have?)

He's heard a few choice phrases from me in the car. I learned to drive in L.A. and I could handle all that with a smile on my face compared to the dumb crap people do around here. I am convinced they all got their licenses from cereal boxes.
 
Lyle said:
...All was going well when a very large woman passed our table on her way to the restroom, and Todd cried out, "Look at that fat lady!"...
Ouch. I hurt myself laughing and falling out of my chair!
 
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iBlue said:
When driving he occasionally senses some frustration in me and blurts out things like: "YOU IDIOT!" or "PICK A LANE, DUMBASS!" which instantly makes me laugh, in an embarrassed sort of way. :eek:
Heh. This reminds me of the "Life Lessons" series of commercials that TLC (The Learning Channel) is currently running.

One of them ("What you do, your kids do") pokes fun at the habits that kids pick up from their parents. That commercial starts out with a mother and young daughter riding along in the car. When they are suddenly cut off by another car at an intersection, the little girl holds up her hand and says to her mother, "I'll get this." She then hops out, marches over to the other car, and proceeds to lambast the other driver while waving her arms around ("Excuse me?! What is your problem? You almost killed us!") :eek: :D
 
I've just put my 4year old daughter to bed and she said something so cute.

mpw:- Good night *hugs*
gew:- *continues hug with about 2tonnes of pressure*Good night Daddy, I love you and want you to stay with me and cuddle me all night, and all day, and all week, and all year, forever, and ever, and ever, (all together now "ahhhh") until you DIE and then I don't want to cuddle you any more. *release and sleep*
 
iBlue said:
3 almost 4. (and he'll be my only one. clearly this job is not for me) :eek:
Our kids are almost the same age. We will go for 1 more in about a year because my wife wants another "Baby". It will also give me a chance to have sex again.:D

I personally like them the older they get. The "Baby" part I could pass on.

I told my wife she could have another but its "HER" baby.;)
 
Okay...no kids yet and I don't really have any good ones from my own childhood, but I do have a few via my fiancée.

1. When she was young, she used to identify people by the color of their clothes. For example, if somebody was wearing a blue outfit, she'd call him the "blue man." It was inevitable that one day she blurted out in public "Mommy, look at the black man!" The man was clearly Caucasian, so lots of people were left wondering not only whether her mother was teaching her to be a racist, but also whether she had some troubles identifying races.

2. I think this one was my fiancée's aunt...her young son had a package of malt balls in his pocket as they went into the local bank. She picked him up and plopped him down on the counter so that she could take care of business with the teller. At that, her son promptly yelled, "Aw, mom...you broke my balls!" A quick clarification was in order on that one...
 
freeny said:
Our kids are almost the same age. We will go for 1 more in about a year because my wife wants another "Baby". It will also give me a chance to have sex again.:D

I personally like them the older they get. The "Baby" part I could pass on.

I told my wife she could have another but its "HER" baby.;)

God babies are SO over-rated. So is parenting in general actually.

So no one makes a colossal mistake because of this cute little thread...

Words to the wise...

If you don't like:


Having everything you own messed with and possibly broken...
Repeating yourself over and over and over...
Saying "don't touch" literally hundreds of times a day...
Cleaning up after messes that you didn't make, including feces, vomit and urine...
Doing constant laundry...
Having to drop everything for someone else's whims...
Hearing whining or screaming over someone not getting their way...
Hearing whining, screaming, crying and random high pitched noises for no reason whatsoever...
Having someone try to run into traffic while you're holding their spaghetti hand...
Wasting food and seeing it spit, half-eaten and thrown...
Wasting money on useless toys which will become airborne and ultimately broken...
Watching lousy television... over and over...
Having every meal you eat for years on end ruined by any/all of the above...
Having to be responsible for someone else all the time...
A thankless job...

Then don't have kids.

To think, that is all I could come up with for the brief moment.

Don't get me wrong, I love my son but I do NOT like kids and don't enjoy parenting as a whole. I wish it weren't true but that's how it is. :eek:
 
iBlue said:
Words to the wise...

If you don't like:


Having everything you own messed with and possibly broken...
Repeating yourself over and over and over...
Saying "don't touch" literally hundreds of times a day...
Cleaning up after messes that you didn't make, including feces, vomit and urine...
Doing constant laundry...
Having to drop everything for someone else's whims...
Hearing whining or screaming over someone not getting their way...
Hearing whining, screaming, crying and random high pitched noises for no reason whatsoever...
Having someone try to run into traffic while you're holding their spaghetti hand...
Wasting food and seeing it spit, half-eaten and thrown...
Wasting money on useless toys which will become airborne and ultimately broken...
Watching lousy television... over and over...
Having every meal you eat for years on end ruined by any/all of the above...
Having to be responsible for someone else all the time...
A thankless job...

Then don't ______.
Seems like "get married" would fit there too. ;)

Kids can be a pain, but if you don't have them, you'll need to check yourself into a nursing home when you're older.
 
*sigh* this was a tough one for me. the day that I realized that I MUST watch my mouth.

I'm a work-at-home dad. One morning I picked up my 16 month old daughter (now 19 months). We went to the kitchen to get her morning sippy of Silk (Soy Milk). On the way out to the living room to watch the morning news, she dropped the cup. I said "Uh Oh" she responded... "Oh Sh|t"
 
iBlue is right. Parenting isn't for everybody, and certainly not for the uncommitted. It's best not to have rose-colored glasses on and think you're in for 18 years of constant enjoyment. And don't have children simply because spouses or parents want you to have them.

For some dumb reason, kids don't come with a user manual or keystroke shortcuts and macros to save you the time those repetitive chores take. Child-rearing involves lots of work, time, and money, and produces a regular stream of annoyances. Having to read the same book, out loud, every night for a year can drive people batty. But then they smile at you with their big bright eyes, or say something both cute and profound, and for some people it's all worth it.

I'm one of those people. I always wanted to be a dad, and gladly accept all the downsides iBlue mentions as a fair price for what I get. I'd rather be on the floor playing with kids than talking to those boring adults who have much better manners, think before they speak, use their prepositions properly, and don't change my way of thinking when they look at the world in a completely different way. Just call me Pollyanna Q when it comes to children.
 
iBlue said:
Don't get me wrong, I love my son but I do NOT like kids and don't enjoy parenting as a whole. I wish it weren't true but that's how it is. :eek:
iBlue, You sound as if you would fit in perfectly on this site-
http://community.urbanbaby.com/boards/
"UrbanBaby" is a site my wife frequents for her daily dose of sanity as a parent. The link is to the forums where parents (almost all mothers) go to spew about their roles as Mommy and all the good and bad that goes with it. Every once in a while I will troll around the forums and read the posts. They are the fricken funniest things you will ever read. please go and sample and let me know what you think.

There are all types, loving, cynical, rich, poor and everything in between. They clash all the time and the rusult is usually pants pissing funny.

Good luck;) We may never see you here again....

Some lingo you should know before reading the site-
dd= Darling daughter
ds= Darling son
dh= Darling husband
dc= Darling child
db= Darling baby
This will all make sense when you read the posts.
 
Doctor Q said:
I'd rather be on the floor playing with kids than talking to those boring adults who have much better manners, think before they speak, use their prepositions properly...
No wonder you're a mod here. ;)
 
My sister is 2, and she tells my mom to "Suck it!" when she doesn't want to do something. Needless to say, my mom is pretty pissed at me.
 
freeny said:
...
Good luck;) We may never see you here again....
I doubt it. I come here to escape all that. Enduring all the parenting talk is like trying to enjoy sobriety by using drugs. :p

Thanks for the link though, I'll take a peek later when I am back in parent mode. (have to pick up the little crumb grinder in a couple hours)
 
freeny said:
"UrbanBaby" is a site my wife frequents for her daily dose of sanity as a parent.
I wonder if they know my #1 tip for parents: Make sure to select sofa coverings and carpet patterns that look like mashed Oreos mixed with spilled grape juice, because they are going to look like that anyway.
 
Doctor Q said:
I wonder if they know my #1 tip for parents: Make sure to select sofa coverings and carpet patterns that look like mashed Oreos mixed with spilled grape juice, because they are going to look like that anyway.
Hence the corollary: don't buy any furniture you couldn't stand seeing covered with mashed Oreos mixed with spilled grape juice.
 
Story of a friend's kid: One day mom hears her son out in the yard yelling 'WHORE' as loud as he can, followed by a 'whack' sound. Curious, mom pokes her head out the door to see her son with his plastic set of golf clubs on the lawn, smacking away and yelling 'WHORE' each time he hit one.

She leaned out the door and said "No hunny, it's FORE."

Kid swings again and yells 'FORE' this time.

:D

Oh and then there was the time in church when my sister was getting a little rowdy (at like age 4) so my dad corals her and, afraid she'll get in trouble, in her sweet little-girl voice pipes up during a quiet moment "Dad, please don't beat me again."

Needless to say my father, who barely ever even spanked us, turned a lovely shade of red.

Luckily this was before that kind of thing would bring an automatic visit from DCS.
 
rdowns said:
I took my 4 year old nephew to the park a few weeks ago. He was wearing his Spiderman costume (don't ask) with huge chest muscles. Another kid said, hey Spiderman, what's your name. My nephew turned and said Peter Parker and went about playing.

My kid does the same thing with Batman. He has the costume and everything. We had to go to the grocery store one day with his mask, cape, and batman t-shirt. everyone was waving and saying hi batman, my son would respond hi.
 
iBlue said:
God babies are SO over-rated. So is parenting in general actually.

So no one makes a colossal mistake because of this cute little thread...

Words to the wise...

If you don't like:


Having everything you own messed with and possibly broken...
Repeating yourself over and over and over...
Saying "don't touch" literally hundreds of times a day...
Cleaning up after messes that you didn't make, including feces, vomit and urine...
Doing constant laundry...
Having to drop everything for someone else's whims...
Hearing whining or screaming over someone not getting their way...
Hearing whining, screaming, crying and random high pitched noises for no reason whatsoever...
Having someone try to run into traffic while you're holding their spaghetti hand...
Wasting food and seeing it spit, half-eaten and thrown...
Wasting money on useless toys which will become airborne and ultimately broken...
Watching lousy television... over and over...
Having every meal you eat for years on end ruined by any/all of the above...
Having to be responsible for someone else all the time...
A thankless job...

Then don't have kids.

To think, that is all I could come up with for the brief moment.

Don't get me wrong, I love my son but I do NOT like kids and don't enjoy parenting as a whole. I wish it weren't true but that's how it is. :eek:


That is the truth, that and your sex life becomes a fantasy. I adore my son, but I sure don't want to have anymore kids. I'm even pretty good at being a daddy, but it is the hardest thing in the world, being a parent.
 
My son just turned 3 and suddenly everything is "poopy" - as in "hi mommy, I love you, see ya later.... Poopy, bye....poopy!"

His 2 year old sister hears this and so its more of the same:
me: Hey, how about some milk?
daughter: ok...... poopy.

me: what should we get Lauren for her birthday?
Son: how about poopy?


sigh.
 
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