Posted on 10/07/2012 5:27:53 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
A boy will spend the first five years of his life amazing you at how smart he is and the next twenty years of his life trying to prove to you how stupid he is.
Having raised two boys and a girl, I must say your advice is spot on.
Advice once given to the father of girls: Bury them when they are 11 and dig them back up when they are 22.
As the father of two co-eds, I cannot argue with that.
Pretty good advise, especially today.
“My five-year-old likes to head to the bathroom just as the family is sitting down to dinner, sometimes during dinner. Its the first time he has been still long enough to realize he has to go. And he wants me to come with him, not just to assist in the wipe but to have a leisurely conversation about the status of his poop.”
This must be how we end up with 26-year-olds still on their parents’ health insurance.
never heard that one before...1 daughter, loved to have dad take her shopping cause she could get anything she wanted. Mostly girls are a worry when then start noticing boys and boys are a worry when they get their drivers license and figure out girls are not full of cooties..
When in doubt, hug
I am not an expert in men, he doesn't have to get me, but the hug works wonders when things aren't right. And we are not very touchy, feely.
I raised 5 kids as a single dad.. Three daughters, and two sons..
Boys seem easier, especially in the early years, because the problems were obvious and understandable, disagreements over some current activity, intimidation, tired or stressed, hungry, etc.. Hug, hold, iodine, pasta, stern looks, and goofy jokes, time with them one on one..
Later years were and still are deep seeded and more profound.. Relationships with authority, school, sports, work, parents, and social, and cultural restrictions.. No easy stuff but usually manageable with simple logic..
Usually, very young girls are simple for dads.. Patience, love, touching, holding, singing, dancing, laughing, finger sandwiches and teaching cooking.. :)
Teenage girls, young women.. GULP! YIKES.. to be continued.. :)
Right there, he's said that men can just drop the ball and drop the responsibility right along with it, and they pre-excuse themselves because ... they're male, I guess. But they'll come back later to blame everything on women.
FReep you and the horse you rode in on. Take responsibility for yourself and your children, or stop calling yourself a man and say you're a male ape.
The girls, my high school son seems to be involved with, seem so demanding. I don’t get it. When I was in high school If I bought a girl a beer I was a hero. Crap If my son doesn’t spend spend spend he is a tight wad.
Thanks for this...
Your son should meet my daughter! She’s happy just hanging out watching a movie at home or going out and kicking a soccer ball around with a guy.
Reared one of each here, as a single mom too, and the advice is spot on.
Yep, when in doubt hug...and tell them you love them, often. When my kidsand I were out in public and walking hand-in-hand, I would squeeze their hands three times...meaning...I love you. They do it with their kids, too.
Word, Tax-chick.
The article may be spot on but it is also a glaring red flag reason why a boy needs TWO parents.
Thank you. This is great advice and I see much of this behavior in my 7 year old son..
moms are generally better parents than dads
sorry, kids do better with a single dad than single mom.
Mostly this is correct. I make a few minor exceptions though.
Back in the day we read three books over and over and over and over....
“Busy Timmy”, “Mike Mulligan’s Steam Shovel” and “Septimus Bean and his Amazing Machine”. We nicknamed the boy Busy Timmy. He always had something important to do and it was and still is either vitally important or not worth mention. He would fight sleep from the earliest days and only took a nap when absolutely exhausted. Sleep was more like some form of suspended animation and he would suddenly go limp and surrender. When he woke it was like hitting a resume button.
For the last nearly 30 years there has not been anything working well enough for him that could not stand to be fixed!
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