Some animals eat their own young.............

[dacjohns]

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repressed memories Dacs?

Probably but also I was gone a lot.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

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Only mine was a girl! We told her pre-school teacher that if there was going to be a child who jumped off the top of the slide it would be ours. (She did)
If the school was going to have an ambulance visit at all it would be for our daughter. (It was.)
Her pediatrician said if she didn't know us, and her, he would swear she was being abused from the number of ER visits we had. (And DH is an EMT, there would have been many more had he not been!)
She simply did not believe that the law of gravity applied to her!

So now she's ten and the drama has started, so we got no break. We struggled every year to keep her alive long enough for us to want to kill her!

Sounds like they're 2 of a kind!

The preschool had a place on the admittance forms that read somthing like "Is there anything else about your child we should know?" I felt the need to warn them to keep a close eye on him because of his desire (and ability) to escape in ways they wouldn't have normally thought of. After reviewing his application, apparently there was some serious behind-the-scenes discussion on whether they wanted him to attend. They ultimately decided to take him and he behaved himself.

Once we went to a public park with friends. Matthew was about 3 and he climbed to the very top of the big monkey bars (about an 8 foot drop to the ground.) Our friends (who didn't have kids) were freaking out about him falling and both were hovering under him incase he fell. DH and I were sitting on a park bench about 50 feet away saying, "He's fine. If he got himself up there, he can get himself down."

Now he's a straight-A student, enrolled in the gifted program, the top of his karate class and a star soccer player. He still climbs things, but I quit worrying. He's going to wash my walls in the hallway because he likes to brace himself against the walls and work his way up to the ceiling, so I have dirty footprints all up the wall.

OMG my HUSBAND used to do that!!! Right up until he caught her copying him!

Her school actually had a police officer stop by to talk to her about the way she rode her tricycle!!

But, no one could stay mad at her because she used to help the disabled girl at her school wrap her arms around the back and she would barrel off hell bent for leather with this little girl hanging on for dear life howling with laughter. Her mother thanked me. Despite the obvious risk, it made her daughter so happy.....

So, sigh, how old is your son? Maybe some day we should introduce them - they can go parachuting or rock climbing together!

 

[Southernbelle]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

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Sounds like they're 2 of a kind!

The preschool had a place on the admittance forms that read somthing like "Is there anything else about your child we should know?" I felt the need to warn them to keep a close eye on him because of his desire (and ability) to escape in ways they wouldn't have normally thought of. After reviewing his application, apparently there was some serious behind-the-scenes discussion on whether they wanted him to attend. They ultimately decided to take him and he behaved himself.

Once we went to a public park with friends. Matthew was about 3 and he climbed to the very top of the big monkey bars (about an 8 foot drop to the ground.) Our friends (who didn't have kids) were freaking out about him falling and both were hovering under him incase he fell. DH and I were sitting on a park bench about 50 feet away saying, "He's fine. If he got himself up there, he can get himself down."

Now he's a straight-A student, enrolled in the gifted program, the top of his karate class and a star soccer player. He still climbs things, but I quit worrying. He's going to wash my walls in the hallway because he likes to brace himself against the walls and work his way up to the ceiling, so I have dirty footprints all up the wall.

OMG my HUSBAND used to do that!!! Right up until he caught her copying him!

Her school actually had a police officer stop by to talk to her about the way she rode her tricycle!!

But, no one could stay mad at her because she used to help the disabled girl at her school wrap her arms around the back and she would barrel off hell bent for leather with this little girl hanging on for dear life howling with laughter. Her mother thanked me. Despite the obvious risk, it made her daughter so happy.....

So, sigh, how old is your son? Maybe some day we should introduce them - they can go parachuting or rock climbing together!​

He'll be 9 in February. The world would never be the same!

(I hope you made your husband clean the walls!)

 

[jbowyer01]

I'm 41, I was having an issues with a hormonal 22 year old daughter when my mother called. I asked her when does the going through the drama stage end...Her response was...whatya mean your still in a stage..Gee thanks mom

So males you dont have a chance lol.

 

[PineappleMama]

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Yup, me too. But you know my BFF since 3rd grade is a Leo and we have Never Once had a fight.. NOT ONCE... ever. So I've always had a rather high opinion of Leo ladies. Then DH and I have a friend who is a Leo as well, he's a very nice guy, loyal, kind, compassionate and he's about as far from drama queen as my BFF has always been... overall I like Leos. But then I'm a Sagittarian so there ya go.

I really REALLY hope that opinion holds as our DS, currently 8, grows into her teen years...

Our DS is a Gemini... so that's been... interesting. Mostly we get on well, always have gotten on with the guys being a tomboy, but now and again we butt heads... both being eldest children plays a role I think... and him being 12 he's coming up on Those Years... *shudder*

But yeah, either will get it into their heads to argue about The STUPIDEST things... but having years of experience with DramaMama and DramaSista I think helped prepare me for it... still, there are days when Zanex looks really appealing.

 

[Boyd]

so I had to just go pick up my youngest dd from the police station.. seems the girl who's been tormenting her this whole year finally got under my daughters skin. Daughter is suspended from school for a bit, and the other girl as well, and her brother who sort of instigated the whole thing? Expulsion... This is going to be ANOTHER long day..

 

[EweSheep]

Geminis are difficult.

 

[Orchid]

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I guess it's not very PC of me to say that I hope she totally kicked butt...but I hope she did nonetheless.

 

[EweSheep]

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I guess it's not very PC of me to say that I hope she totally kicked butt...but I hope she did nonetheless.

She certainly did kick butt!

 

[Boyd]

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I guess it's not very PC of me to say that I hope she totally kicked butt...but I hope she did nonetheless.

yeah, she definitely did. the school has been trying to work with me switching classes around so this kid won't be around my daughter so much... But when the new kid in school is a 6' at 15yo and the bully is 5'2.... Yeah, the other girl didn't land a punch.

One part of me wants to clap, the other wants to preach to her.. but I did tell her next time she gets locked up till the hearing. Too much at once to process so I hide here on the internet for 10 minutes till I can find my wits before I talk to her.