andi9899
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Post by andi9899 on Feb 5, 2014 0:01:05 GMT -5
FYI, she was not seriously hurt. She is actually a very smart kid, She is 15 yo and a junior at an accelerated school and is doing college work and still maintains a 3.8 GPA. So I guess she didn't hit her head that hard.
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muttleynfelix
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Post by muttleynfelix on Feb 5, 2014 8:17:44 GMT -5
I don't know if this was a parenting fail or just lazy parenting. My neighbors came over for my kids' birthday party this weekend. Their youngest daughter is a little hellion (she's 3). She tried to go out our back door it is locked in 2 locations. Her parents did stop her then, but then she did go out the front door (twice) with no coat and no shoes (it was about 20 degrees outside). She went through the closed doors to our utility room and laundry area. She went into my bedroom. I don't know what she was looking for ... maybe a quiet spot because it was crazy, but her parents just did not care. DH and I caught her and stopped her every time and her parents never saw her once and you can see everything from where they are at in our dining room. Then she climbed up on the high chair and tried to climb onto the counter to get a chip. It was really loud at the party. At one point DH comes over and tells me that DD is about to meltdown and my Grandma was too. Is this the same Grandma that complained when you told her you were pregnant with DD? If so, then I hope she enjoyed her meltdown and you didn't let it bother you. Yep. I was too busy cleaning up after our meal and corralling the 8 kids in our house. She did bitch for awhile after everyone else left. I was too busy getting my kids to settle down and go to bed to hear most of it.
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Post by zibazinski on Feb 5, 2014 8:38:44 GMT -5
I'd cool it with the religion PERIOD until your child is old enough that their friends might think its cool. Otherwise, well, school can be a cruel place. I still remember the two little girls that were ostracized because their dad was gay and flaunted it and his boyfriend at school. Those little girls were the sweetest girls ever. Dad was a jerk. Not because he was gay but because he was a self centered prick who only thought of himself.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 5, 2014 8:42:28 GMT -5
I think a poll should be started on the outcome of all our kids who were dropped on their heads I don't feel so bad now since the newer generation is doing the same thing to their kids I did to mine. I thought this was the perfect generation who did no wrong and had 800 manuals telling them how not to raise their kids
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 8:42:53 GMT -5
Flaunt it? How? Did he walk around saying "this is my GAY boyfriend. Because we're GAY!!!!!" and then they broke out into a song and dance routine? Or did he just come to school with his significant other, like a bazillion other hetero people do every day?
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NoNamePerson
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 5, 2014 8:44:39 GMT -5
Flaunt it? How? Did he walk around saying "this is my GAY boyfriend. Because we're GAY!!!!!" and then they broke out into a song and dance routine? Or did he just come to school with his significant other, like a bazillion other hetero people do every day? Sorry but that just had me What a visual!!!!!!
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Feb 5, 2014 8:47:14 GMT -5
No, he came in holding hands and kissing and basically being very obvious. A hetero couple would be looked on as creepy as well acting like that. Glad I didn't see it but I sure heard about it. My mom always said if you're happy with yourself, you have nothing to prove to others. Making a show like he did made life very hard for his girls. We have two women teachers at my school who are a couple. They are raising one of themselves child from another relationship. They are very careful and discreet. We know and we don't care. If they started to make out in front of us, we'd yell at them to get a room. Same as if they weren't gay.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 8:52:48 GMT -5
Got it!
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Post by Formerly SK on Feb 5, 2014 9:15:55 GMT -5
No, he came in holding hands and kissing and basically being very obvious. A hetero couple would be looked on as creepy as well acting like that. Glad I didn't see it but I sure heard about it. My mom always said if you're happy with yourself, you have nothing to prove to others. Making a show like he did made life very hard for his girls. We have two women teachers at my school who are a couple. They are raising one of themselves child from another relationship. They are very careful and discreet. We know and we don't care. If they started to make out in front of us, we'd yell at them to get a room. Same as if they weren't gay. x 1000
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Post by seriousthistime on Feb 5, 2014 11:52:24 GMT -5
It was the Fourth of July, and I'd just driven the kids to see the fireworks. My youngest was about to start kindergarten. We got out of the car, and I went to the trunk, grabbed the blanket we were going to sit on, and pushed the trunk lid to shut it. For some reason, it didn't latch and just popped up again. So I pushed it down pretty hard, and it still didn't latch, and then I hear a combination of a shriek/moan and look down to see the back of my youngest kid's head sticking into the trunk. I had slammed the trunk on his head. Twice. Fortunately, he was all right. He had a goose egg, but didn't need stitches.
My brilliant comment at the time: "What is your head doing there?"
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Post by Abby Normal on Feb 5, 2014 12:21:40 GMT -5
It was the Fourth of July, and I'd just driven the kids to see the fireworks. My youngest was about to start kindergarten. We got out of the car, and I went to the trunk, grabbed the blanket we were going to sit on, and pushed the trunk lid to shut it. For some reason, it didn't latch and just popped up again. So I pushed it down pretty hard, and it still didn't latch, and then I hear a combination of a shriek/moan and look down to see the back of my youngest kid's head sticking into the trunk. I had slammed the trunk on his head. Twice. Fortunately, he was all right. He had a goose egg, but didn't need stitches. My brilliant comment at the time: "What is your head doing there?" Same story but change trunk to door and head to hand.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Feb 5, 2014 15:09:02 GMT -5
When mine were little they were in two different nurseries..... I was such a flap one morning, because we were late... that I managed to drop the wrong kid off at the wrong nursery. it wasn't until I was at the second one and my little son piped up with "where is this"...that I realised.
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Post by Martivir on Feb 5, 2014 19:07:18 GMT -5
The one day I went to use the bathroom and DS followed me. I herded him out and went to close the door. I heard him scream and it turned out that he had put his hand right above the hinge to try and I closed it on his hand. His pinky looked mangled but it was fine. I think he was 2 at the time.
Another time I was letting him play with the pot lids and he was using them as cymbals in the living room. I had half an eye on him when he tripped and face planted on one of the lids. He had a perfect half circle bruise on his face where it hit the lip on the lid. He was just over a year.
When he was 2 he loved taking colored baths. Especially red ones. I had put the food coloring on the back of the toilet while I grabbed something out of our room. DH called and I got distracted and completely forgot about the food coloring. DS had gotten to it and dumped the entire thing into his bath. He was a faint pink from the mid chest down for 3 days.
This past summer I was out picking raspberries in the front yard while DS was in the house playing. The little girl next door came out and we started talking. I was wondering what was funny because she broke out laughing. I turned around to see DS wearing just a diaper and my shoes.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 6, 2014 8:41:41 GMT -5
When I was in 4th-5th grade-ish I had a hand boiler, you know one of those pretty glass things filled with a volitle substance and you hold them and the stuff boils from the heat in your hand? yeah, so Dad was 'watching' me (in another room of the house entirely) and I was playing with that. I accidently dropped it and tried to catch it, slicing my finger open in the process. Here's the conversation.
"Dad, I cut my finger and it's bleeding!" "Rinse it off, it'll be fine" "I am and I think you should come here!!!!" "I'll be there in a minute" "DAD! I CAN SEE BONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" " Coming...."
Yep, had sliced it to the bone and he had no intention of coming to look at it. He also didn't take me to the doctor. Or tell my mother what happened. I have a nice scar on that finger though, makes for interesting conversations.
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