I need to vent. Is that okay?

[prostar]

Oh man especially boys let them be boys! They'll get dirty scraped banged up all that jazz (heck girls too...I remember fencing with sticks and stuff like that)

That's a good idea on the get a new toy donate an old one. I'm stealing that if ever I have actual kids (cause the dog and the chicks don't count)

 

[chiques chicks]

Boys or girls, let them all get dirty!

I don't have kids, but I don't see a need to differentiate, I'm make, I got dirty, I learned to hunt and fish and grow things and build things from my dad. I learned to cook and sew (and grow things) from my mom. I never liked those stereotypes of boy and girl toys. I had toy guns and toy farm equipment. I also had stuffed animals and a doll.

I turned out normal (they're coming to take me away, haha, hehe)

 

[prostar]

Hey I was off with my Lego and matchbox cars just as often as I was with Barbies and dolls lol.

You're right though. I should have said kids be kids

 

[rancher hicks]

As I've always told people when their children jump in mud puddles, "it's their job!"

Side note, jumping in a puddle is fun at any age. Children need to explore. I salute you for letting them be kids!

Recently while in Texas my grandson and I did it. Of course you've seen the rain they go down there. We also played follow the leader. Folks would smile when they stopped to let us cross at the intersections and we'd turn around and cross backwards holding hands. The rule was when we crossed the road we had to do it backwards.

GS just turned four.

When we puddle jumped we came home soaked but his parents didn't care.

When you're old and do crazy stuff they just say you're senile. When your young they say you don't know better.

 

[prostar]

Haha I just have no shame. I enjoy "hanging out" with some friends' toddler. We sing, we run around all crazy like, we "fly" (sometimes when she's having a terrible two moment she won't want to walk somewhere...or go somewhere...but if I say hey let's fly over there and walk flapping my arms around, she's game lol)

I refuse to grow up lol

(Edit: her mom likes it too lol. She's got a new baby at home so sometimes she just needs her toddler distracted)

 

[rancher hicks]

Haha I just have no shame. I enjoy "hanging out" with some friends' toddler. We sing, we run around all crazy like, we "fly" (sometimes when she's having a terrible two moment she won't want to walk somewhere...or go somewhere...but if I say hey let's fly over there and walk flapping my arms around, she's game lol)

I refuse to grow up lol

(Edit: her mom likes it too lol. She's got a new baby at home so sometimes she just needs her toddler distracted)

"Growing old is mandatory, Growing UP is optional".

I'd rather be a happy and insane old person than a miserable one.

AND

So I'm watching this Twilight episode and it's about old folks in a nursing home. One of the residents figures out that because adults forget how to play they get old. He decides to act like a kid and those who join him all become kids again.

 

[prostar]

Haha makes sense.

I dunno. I enjoy being crazy. I'll chase my dog around the yard (herding games), I'll carry on conversations with chickens, too bad social convention!

 

[3goodeggs]

My problem is that people give me their stuff and tell me not to throw it out. I am like your wife, I am too passive. I have clothes from people that I never wanted, don't need, don't like- and they say don't throw these out. So now it is my responsibility to take them to goodwill, so goodwill can throw them out? I have enough rags to last me forever.
No one gives me nice new things, they give me worn out ugly things.
and the admonishment of 'Don't throw this out."

I need to say, "No. If you leave this here, I will throw it out."

..but I don't throw it out, I go get a storage box and store their stuff for them at my house for what I assume will be forever.

And I am with you on the refrigerators. They need deeper doors and shallower shelves. I have the problem of condiment build up. I think I should mix them all together and see if it explodes.

 

[enola]

When someone brings you a box of something you know you won't need or want, tell them the only way you will take the box is if they agree to take TWO of the boxes you are storing for someone!

Problem solved ! Chances are they won't offer to give you anything else.

 

[3goodeggs]

That's it! Eventually all of it will be gone!