All I Want for Christmas...Parents, You May Be Surprised

Momscape ^ | Linda Sharp

[homeschool mama]

My goodness gracious...who bit you in the hiney, zandtar?

It's good to be reminded of obvious things because even the obvious sometimes gets lost in life.

I don't consider this article a *do-gooder forcing what we should do* on others. I see it as an important reminder to value those things that are most important. Our kiddos are most important..the time we spend with them is priceless.

Now sit down and eat your peas, hon. They're getting cold. ;o)

[RightOnline]

Actually, no, they don't. Funny............never remember having you over to the house. You sneak in or something??

[ohioWfan]

I smoke and they still love me...........and they don't stink of smoke, either.

Yes they do. You just can't smell it.

[ohioWfan]

Oops, I didn't see post 60 before I posted.

I've taught school and kids whose parents smoke smell. Period. You don't have to go to their house to smell it.......that is unless their clothes and hair are fumigated before they leave home.

[ohioWfan]

I am merely stating that the Lord gave me a directive on this. I do not argue with Him. He always wins

Are you quite sure that it was the Lord giving you the directive?

[nina0113]

Funny, I came back from a smoke break once & asked the biggest anti-smoker in the office if she could smell it on me. She said, not on you, but (name withheld)? I can always tell.

I think it's something to do with the brand - I started stuffing my own this past summer

[ohioWfan]

It could be the brand that stays on the clothes, but the smoke always stinks no matter what.
It's a smelly, nasty habit, and it's a rotten thing to do expose your own kids to..........and that has nothing to do with being PC (which I am decidedly not).

[Chess]

Kids like someone who will get down on the floor and play with them. When my nephew was a kid, he would get upset if I showed up in a dress. He said, "Now you can't play with me." and "I don't like it when you where a dress cause then you are no fun."

A child's idea of pretty is very different from an adult's.

[RightOnline]

"Yes they do. You just can't smell it. 63 posted on 12/18/01 3:28 PM Eastern by ohioWfan [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: RightOnline Oops, I didn't see post 60 before I posted. I've taught school and kids whose parents smoke smell. Period. You don't have to go to their house to smell it.......that is unless their clothes and hair are fumigated before they leave home."

Well, you sanctimonious little nosy pri*k. The nerve of a**holes like you and the twerp above telling me my kids "smell like smoke because I smoke". You haven't the slightest freakin' clue what you're talking about, you've never met me, you've never met any of my kids, you've never set foot within 100 miles of my home. You don't know how I smoke, where I smoke, their proximity to that smoke, their bathing habits, our laundry habits........nothing.

Who in God's name told you that you had the right to talk to me that way???

Get bent. Take your little friend above with you.

[zandtar]

Now sit down and eat your peas, hon. They're getting cold. ;o)

No way, peas are yucky! Now Spinach is the good stuff! 8)

I don't have a problem with the notion of remembering the little things that sometimes get pushed aside in our busy lives. However, I do take objection with the way this article was written to make it appear to be something it really isn't. I don't like the notion of some adult manipulating children into giving conditional answers, in order to make her point. While the article might be "cutsie" to some, I find that sort of thing disgusting for any adult to do.

[zandtar]

Are you quite sure that it was the Lord giving you the directive?

Actually that was me driving by with Mr. Microphone, but don't tell them.

[2Jedismom]

I agree. I think it's the tone and the way the article was written that got under my skin. The basic idea the writer is trying to get across is good. But it sounds like she pulled it from her own head. I think if she did, she should come right out and say "This is what I think you should get your kids for Christmas" instead of setting up this absurd scenario.

And I think she gave herself away when she mentioned the Playstation. She forgot her own instructions.

And I still think she talks about herself more than was nessessary at the beginning.

Good idea...bad presentation.

[ohioWfan]

I'd say that your smoking is the least of your personal problems.

Lighten up. Smoking stinks. It's a fact. You're free to do it whenever, and wherever you like.
It's still a nasty habit, and it smells.

Now go call someone else names. I am unaffected by your abject rudeness. Have a nice day.

[zandtar]

I guess your homepage says it all.

Thanks for reminding me. I've updated it to something more season appropriate.

[ohioWfan]

LOL!

[Whilom]

Isn't that precious!!!

[wjcsux]

thanks

[Orbiter]

I caught myself saying, "Dad needs to wrap this up..." twice in the past week when my six-year old son asked me to play catch with him. Harry Chapan's tune "Cats In The Cradle," a poem written to him by his wife, kept playing in my head -- haunting me. Reality check. I vowed before he was born that I'd be 180 degrees different than my father, a strict disciplinarian who was also emotionally distant. I remember once when I was about 12 Dad came out of the house and for the first time in my life threw me a football. I was on top of the f'in' world. Never happened again, though. It's sad now, really, 30 years later with this 65 year-old man who desparately wants to know his son (me) but I feel nothing for him.

Time to go play catch.

[RightOnline]

YOU tell ME that MY kids "stink"...........and I'm rude???????????????

I will meticulously follow the letter of JimRob's posted laws around here, and you're go**amned lucky. Let me just tell you plainly to f**k yourself.

I have a reasonably long fuse, but you burned it up quick. Stay out of my way 'round here from now on.

[varon]

The hugs and openness with which I am greeted are huge indicators that I have broken through that Grown-up/Child barrier.

How in the world have you avoided child molestation charges with all that hugging? In many schools an adult can't so much as touch a student without a law suit on the horizon.