Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 Hi Everyone, Not all but many children behave this way. It is natural. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it and these days the people who make remarks like your coward letter writer are just wrong. When I was 4 or 5 Mom, Dad and my older brother James took us 5 little ones to Wisconsin for cheese. The place we bought the cheese had a steep driveway and at the bottom was the main road, beyond that was a lake. My youngest brother (4 years younger) climbed into the front seat an set the car in gear. We were rolling backward screaming our heads off! James heard us and came running out. He raced after the car and jumped into the driver seat and applied the brakes. Luckily the car was a convertible. Children have played with " fire " since it was first discovered. Your son reminds me fondly of my own and like one of the other ladies, (he is 27 now with children of his own), calls me all the time, sends me cards and plaques that tell me how much he loves me and is thankful for everything I did for him when he was growing up. I was a single Mom in the military and believe you/me that he ran wild a lot of the time. I remember many things like you describe. The adventurous ones are the ones that keep us alive. I love Janine's idea about drawings out of a can. Take care Kathleen, wish some of us were closer so we could take him off your hands once a week at least! Trading babysitting is great. Hugs to you, Cheryl ===== Cheryl Smith A Heavenly Body 204 Muldoon Road Anchorage AK 99504 Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 In a message dated 11/28/2003 8:40:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, echo7c writes: > kathleen, > my first born son was alot like this. he's the oldest of 4 boys, each > learning from the other. > it really does get better. you have to learn to let them think that > it's their idea. > > my father is in advanced stages of cancer. he's been given 6 wks to 6 > months on > the outside but more than likely it will the sooner rather than later. > i am not taking > any of this very well. > here's a letter that i got today from said son in the mail. he will be > 18 on dec. 5th. > > mom, > thank you for everything you have given me for the past 17 years. you > have given me alot of support and courage. the times that you have > given me advice in times of crises. i just wanted to thank you for > everything. love, billy ray > > work with him kathleen, not against him and by all means, keep a > journal! these moments really are > priceless!!! > deb c > fourwyndz > ps. he's my kinda guy! i'd take him in a heartbeat for any amount that > you'd set on his precious > lil head!!!!!!! > Oh DEB! I'm so sorry about your father. You have my heartfelt sympathies. As for your son, he sounds like a JEWEL and I hope MY son, little terror that he is, grows up with the kind of heart your son has. K Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 In a message dated 11/29/2003 12:01:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, butchbsi writes: > but for my parents it twarnt funny a lick > back then. ;-p Butch > As a parent, I'm in agony for yours, as contemporary, I'm laughing my guts out... My thing was fire. Always loved fires (still do) Used to light matches when I was about four and set my wooden trunk on fire and blow it out before it got too big... got a bit too big on occassion and scared me... but I always did get it put out. Did the same thing with me table when I was older, I would set the layers on fire underneath... you can still see a blackened bottom! LOL THEN, I used to go out to the woods behind my house and set up campfires, or try to. Used to take rolls of toilet paper and try to use it as a starter.... useless stuff. Still love fires, but these days they stay in me candles, me fireplace and when I'm camping... Those are just me fires stories, never did anything as wildly NUTS as playing chicken without a car or tiping over outhouses... Your poor parents! ROFLMAO! K Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 In a message dated 11/29/2003 2:49:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, female_tigress writes: > Not all but many children behave this way. It is > natural. There is absolutely nothing wrong with > it and these days the people who make remarks > like your coward letter writer are just wrong. > Ahhhh. But Cheryl, the person who made those nasty cracks doesn't HAVE any children and like most people who have never experienced the turbulence, drama, joy and the just plain " I wanna tear my hair out " feelings are always the ones to jump in mouth first to criticize. I have TWO like this, the little girl and the little boy. SHE'S the one who fell off the basketball pole and said later that she LIKED falling, but not landing. She's also the one who tried to walk upstairs with her roller skates on when she could barely STAND in the darn things. Wait maybe I've got three... the eldest boy used to have a scar on his cheek where he ran into the wall... course then there's the time he chucked himself in the pond when he couldn't swim, come to think of it, so did the little boy... and the little girl... we didn't live here when the eldest was at " chucking oneself in the pond " age. I think the little girl has shades of Butch in her, she's been known to lie down/sit down behind cars that are backing up (Thank GOODNESS she outgrew THAT one), I'm just happy we have no out houses for her to tip over! ROFLMAO! " Take care Kathleen, wish some of us were closer so we could take him off your hands once a week at least! Trading babysitting is great. " I don't know anyone to trade babysitting with, but I'll tell you, this little monster and his big brother are two of the cuddliest little boys around. The girls can be a little standoffish, but if you ever feel a little down, all you have to do is open your arms around here and a little boy will come running to fill them up. THEN they'll go out and find something really rotten to do! LOL! Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 In a message dated 11/29/2003 12:13:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, Janine writes: > or, the third day of kindergarten when he HITCHED a ride to school. I could > have KILLED HIM when I discovered someone else didn't. > First day of nursery school (sorta like kindergarten in England), I decided that it wasn't for me and left... Just showed up in me mums kitchen and told her school was finished... LOL! Mom didn't buy it and I had to go back... teacher and I had a big ole hate on... one day I stopped up ALL the sinks in the bathroom, turned on the water and stood there and watched... end of that year we moved back to the states and the teacher went to a home, she had had a nervous break down... Mom told me that " it wasn't ALL your fault " which kinda implies that I had a lot to do with it... I think my kids are payback! ROFLMAO! " Or when he invited strange women and men off the street to 'come have cookies my mom just made'. " Oh YEAH! Same little girl will NOT, not talk to people she doesn't know. At the rodeo a couple of years ago (she was three) she was telling people our PHONE NUMBER! Fortunately she didn't know the area code and we were out of state! ROFLMAO! She does climb trees and falls outta them and gets back in em AGAIN! To be honest, they're all quite fearless (they do NOT get it from me, I'm a coward) and I'm not sure I'm going to survive thier childhood! ROFLMAO! ACK! Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 Hey y'all, Whut kids ain't done the amazing? And some of us even survived. When I was a crawler still wearing the sleeping gown younguns used to wear, I pulled a bowl of cooking oil off a table onto a linoleum floor. Parents said I was flipping and flopping trying to get up and twas so funny they thought about calling the neighbors in to watch the show. When I was a toddler I decided to do some scientific experimentation so I stuck fingernail file into a 110V socket. They said it knocked me backwards and away from it .. with no injury. When I was around 3 or so my cousins and I decided to milk one of my Grandpa's goats .. couldn't get no milk though cause she was a he. Around the same time, my same devilish cousins and I decided to see how much sand Pa's gas tank would hold. During pretty much the same time, my oldest cousin and I decided to go wading in an open cesspool. During my early teen years my buddies and I would play chicken (without cars) by laying down on Highway 79 at night and seeing who would be the first to roll off the road when a car came. That didn't stop till the State Trooper cuffed us all and hauled us afore our parents. In my later teens we did the same thing using cars .. and the Good Lawd was watching out for us all cause not one of us ever hit head on. During that same period on a Halloween Night a buncha us decided to dump Old Man Downs crap house over on its side. Old Man Downs was in it then and later, Bobby Kimbrough, who was a temporary cop then (had to have them back then on Halloween) cuffed us all .. and hauled us home to our parents. One of the ones cuffed was Bobby's son, Billy Kimbrough. Y'all wouldn't believe the stuff we used to pull up to the roof of the two story Guthrie School .. but its still history in Todd County. There's plenty more crazy crap .. won't bore you with it now cause I'm thinking most folks got similar mad actions in their history. Looking back on it now tis funny .. but for my parents it twarnt funny a lick back then. ;-p Butch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 Oh Kathleen, I hope you can steer the little girl into sky diving and scuba diving, things that will help her expand her fearlessness. I remember my son climbing a tree when he was about 8 at my dad's mini farm. both my dad and I watched in horror, but hid it, so he wouldn't be afraid. 'MOM, WATCH THIS'! as he went higher, and higher....and higher. he was up where the birds stand on their tippy toes on the branches. He did not fall. I can't believe he did not fall. the branch bent over, but he did not fall. or, the third day of kindergarten when he HITCHED a ride to school. I could have KILLED HIM when I discovered someone else didn't. Or when he invited strange women and men off the street to 'come have cookies my mom just made'. I remember one gal, briefcase in hand, standing in my dining room eating chocolate chip cookies. LOL I wonder if she ever thinks of that. My son never met a stranger. He met people he didn't know that could become his friend. Thank God, and I do, that he was never physically hurt by them. Makes me wonder what else I taught him that I am not aware of. James Robison says, 'grandchildren are God's gift to parents who didn't kill their kids'. ROFL I thought that was GREAT! Janine Phariss www.BlueSageNaturals.com Fade scars, relieve pain, clear up eczema! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 oh yeah, I agree, I think our kids are payback for the way we were when we were small. However, that said, hyperactivity is inherited. I knew this LONG before the 'study' came out saying so. Dad's mom, him, me and my kid. Janine Phariss www.BlueSageNaturals.com Fade scars, relieve pain, clear up eczema! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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