Posted on 08/10/2009 11:38:49 AM PDT by jurroppi1
You are welcome. I’ve got a 3 year old and two that were once three year olds, so I definitely understand. I’ve got some sunflowers growing this year that I too started from seed. It is disappointing, even for an adult, when something ruins something you’ve worked hard on. Good luck.
Sorry to hear that...I would grow poison ivy and lots of it and paint it to look like sunflowers...just a thought...
Typical lib—always name calling! I am not at work, pal!
Agree, my Friend. I hear the sound of helicopter parents.
I prefer to view the glass as being half full.....I am an optimist.
My original thought was to shoot the kids or burn down their house.....
“I’d be glad to help. What do you want me to do to the neighbor kids?”
LOL! Laz, if I wasn’t married, I’d be on your doorstep wtih my suitcase tomorrow. You and I are always on the same page!
I’d say buy one in a pot/planter and stick it in the ground. But it seems you can’t from your post. Maybe just tell the child the plant died so time to plant a new one?
Well, this is one of those ‘teaching’ moments, and really, a 2.5 year old is NOT going to remember this as something that’s going to put her into therapy for 20 years of her life! I think ‘Mom’ may be taking this harder and making more of it than need be. :)
I’d get the facts first, and if the parents of the Junior Thugs are agreeable, then I’d have a talk with the boys about destroying property that didn’t belong to them in the first place!
When my boys were about 12 or so, they took their BB guns and shot out EVERY window in the old milk house. Yep. It wasn’t ours, even though it’s adjacent to our property, it hadn’t been used since the 1970’s, but d@mmit! It sure didn’t belong to THEM! Those guns were put away for six months. They totally missed Squirrel Season, and THAT is the lesson that needs to be taught here, not a lesson for the two year old.
I think you may be making mroe of this than need be, and if the head of the sunflower can be salvaged, just tell the 2 year old that it was time to harvest it, hang it to dry and put it by the bird feeding station and let the Chickadees have at it.
Chill, Mom. This is NOT the end of the world for your kid...but it should most certainly be a swift kick in the @ss for the kids that destroyed the sunflower!
I just re-read your initial post. You’re the FATHER?
Oh, for Pete’s Sake. Man UP and deal with this.
Yeesh! *Rolleyes*
Never said you were at work, but that I was and my OP was hasty because of it. Sorry that didn’t cover your stringent requirements for an obvious vanity post in bloggers/personal.
Your liberal bona fides are well cemented though through projection and the obvious need to make yourself feel superior by belittling the feelings of a 2.5 year old girl. I know I’d sure be proud to be so brilliant...
Next time you come upon a thread like this, you might try ignoring it if it enrages you so.
If there are any hunting plantations in the area you might check with them as sunflowers are often used to attract dove this time of year.
jurroppi1,Tell her the truth.After she stops crying ask her if she wants to pick out a new flower to grow.She is going to be upset and cry.Expect that.
yes, the father dealing with a distraught wife over the situation that posted the thread hastily while at work and looking for advice to save the flower if possible. I used some of her terms for explaining the emotional aspect of this, frankly I was just angry and wanted to fix the problem like all normal men would be. I already told my daughter about it, I never intended to lie or replace the flower without her knowing about it, nothing nefarious at all.
Your post was really helpful though...
Get in touch with the kid's parents, explain the situation and ask them to have the delinquents come back to the scene of the crime to witness the little girl's "reaction" when she sees for the first time her beloved plant is GONE.
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Chuckle!
How’s she doing? How’d she take it? I’d say let her cry and be angry, share her sorrow and anger and then take her to the nursery and buy something in bloom to plant in place of the sunflower. Or cheer her up and distract her in some other way. A new kitten?
yuk.
your moniker itself is a non sequitur.
she dealt with this with more maturity than a fair number of people on this thread. Having said that, she was certainly sad about it.
LOL!!
Indeed, ROFLMAOAY.
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