OK, I'm totally freaked out and need help....

riptides · Aug 1, 2008

RobJ said:
We had rabbit(s) for a while. that's what they do, but not in front of the TV while everyone is watching.

And some always thought my rabbits name was "cute" when I was a young person.

Thumper

gotrocks · Aug 1, 2008

This is some what keeping on the original subject, takes about 4 minutes for the whole presentation.

YouTube - "If My Nose Was Running Money" By Aaron Wilburn

J_J · Aug 1, 2008

Picking and eating, picking and eating, thinking it's candy, but it's snot.

Just don't let him make you a sandwich.

Kyle_in_Tex · Aug 1, 2008

_Rat_ , you know there are only 2 kinds of booger pickers.

Those who haven't been caught and those who have...I think the latter are the ones who vote for Pelosi.

Tig · Aug 1, 2008

Oh man, this thread had me in tears four or five times. Is there anything we forgot to cover here?
and Rat, I'm sure his mom knows. She doesn't need to hear it from you. I like the advice that was given, just tell him he can't do that in your house. Just between you and him in a firm but friendly manner. At least then he will hide from you when he needs a snack.

RonMar · Aug 2, 2008

If it bothers you, why didn't you tell him to stop? Like many things that become reflexive, he probably isn't aware that he is doing it. If it bothers you and you think it is gross, tell him to stop, and tell him why... Afterall it is your house isn't it...

_RaT_ · Aug 3, 2008

OK, well the little buger eating farts gone. Some helpful hints and some not so helpful hints from TBN folks. I can tell RonMar has never had a kid so his advice was simply good for a laugh. I guess the bright side is that my chances of encountering one of the finger flicking nodules on our furniture is lessened, the down side is, he may be coming back for a visit in the distant future. The picture none the less is embeded in my mind and there is little chance its going to leave, ever. He will always be the buger eating freak I saw on the couch in my house after having a delicious dinner topped with a triple chocolate ice cream drum stick for what I thought was a adequate dessert. I was wrong, I was wrong.

RobJ · Aug 3, 2008

_RaT_ said:
OK, well the little buger eating farts gone. Some helpful hints and some not so helpful hints from TBN folks. I can tell RonMar has never had a kid so his advice was simply good for a laugh. I guess the bright side is that my chances of encountering one of the finger flicking nodules on our furniture is lessened, the down side is, he may be coming back for a visit in the distant future. The picture none the less is embeded in my mind and there is little chance its going to leave, ever. He will always be the buger eating freak I saw on the couch in my house after having a delicious dinner topped with a triple chocolate ice cream drum stick for what I thought was a adequate dessert. I was wrong, I was wrong.

Now wait a minute, had to read your first post again. You sure you have a kid...I mean your own blood...it matters?

And I'm sure he doesn't do ANYTHING that ANYONE else would find offensive. IF you say yes....then you've lost us all!!

Those of us with kids know better. And one kid hardly counts. All of us with more than one kid knows that 1 is easy, 2 is about 4 times harder, I stop there but I know 3 is probably is 8 times harder.

dbdartman · Aug 3, 2008

Apply liberally as needed:

RonMar · Aug 3, 2008

_RaT_ said:
I can tell RonMar has never had a kid so his advice was simply good for a laugh.

Sorry, 3 kids, 2 grandkids, and I have no problem speaking what is on my mind to any of them... So tell me, If you don't tell them it is wrong, impolite or just gross(as well as what is correct, polite and good), how are they going to learn?

_RaT_ · Aug 4, 2008

dbdartman said:
Apply liberally as needed:

Thanks Dartman, thats what I was thinking. The chlorox and the liberal part.

_RaT_ · Aug 4, 2008

RonMar said:
Sorry, 3 kids, 2 grandkids, and I have no problem speaking what is on my mind to any of them... So tell me, If you don't tell them it is wrong, impolite or just gross(as well as what is correct, polite and good), how are they going to learn?

Thats great Ron, you have what I think they would call a great command presence. I have not been able to build to nearly the level you are obviously at. Perhaps someday. Its certainly a good quality. With 2 brothers, 7 sisters and 57,000 nieces and nephews on my side alone, I have yet to get to that level. Perhaps you should write a book!

browns40 · Aug 4, 2008

How many parents we got here anyway?

Ron & ByronBob--right on--kids are going to do what their fresh little minds find to be stimulating... their world is focused on themselves, and what goes on outside of them is of very little interest until they get older.

Whether that behavior is masturbating, examining their orifices (nose included), bumping their head on a wall, spinning around in circles... A child will not know what is or is not socially appropriate until they have been socialized... if it never happens, they grow into socially inappropriate adults, free to breed another generation of the same...

As adults our role is no longer to tee-hee on the playground, it's to set the course and make darn well sure our kids are staying in line... when we don't do it, it is left to the peer group, teachers, TV, internet... It's also our job to step in where weak, ineffective parenting has allowed kids to drift, because a stranger's intervention makes a bigger impression for those kids than the background noise their parents have been providing.

Agreed: picking & eating, that is nasty... the adult steps in there though... that 15 seconds would have been of help to the kid instead of this.......

RollTideRam · Aug 6, 2008

I think you should have made fun of the kid and let him know its wrong to eat buggers. Next time you see him, ask if still doing it to keep him from starting back.

Highbeam · Aug 7, 2008

I have 2 daughters and we tell them not to even pick their noses if we catch them. We humiliate them a little with it knowing that at best they will keep it behind closed doors. It's not like you can let that stuff accumulate. Secretly though, I only really care that they don't eat it. I also get the heaves when I see other kids do that. I think to myself, it must be salty or maybe rehydrate into gooey snot. Regardless, it crosses the line.

In my house I would have barked at them right then. Quit doing that!

RobJ · Aug 7, 2008

Highbeam said:
I have 2 daughters and we tell them not to even pick their noses if we catch them. We humiliate them a little with it knowing that at best they will keep it behind closed doors. It's not like you can let that stuff accumulate. Secretly though, I only really care that they don't eat it. I also get the heaves when I see other kids do that. I think to myself, it must be salty or maybe rehydrate into gooey snot. Regardless, it crosses the line.

In my house I would have barked at them right then. Quit doing that!

Not sure its ever a good time for a parent to humilliate their OWN kid. JMHO

No problem humilliating someone elses.

But you are correct, I bet 100% of the folks here have done some nose mining, especially while on the tractor. I mean so you are out in a dusty field and you are building one. To attached to blow out. What do ya do, drive back to the house for a tissue? A hanky?? My dad carried those, not something I'd like to carry around in mypocket!! NAh you dig it out and give it a flick!!

Highbeam · Aug 7, 2008

To be clear, I consider a lot of things to be "humiliating". We're not talking about locking the kid outside in her undies or anything. Singling her out and correcting behavior among other folks is not likely to be met with any arguing.