The chase...an average day in Florida

[Anonymous Poster]

I know what you mean. My dad is gone, but he only had to look at me a certain way and I froze like a popsicle. Muscles locked all up like a barbie doll. My son, is a whole different animal. His flight instinct is very strong. All my husband has to do is make that little sound in his throat and off he goes, faster than a six-legged dog, just hittin' the ground in the high spots. My husband teases him about it.

"Keep it up boy, good practice for when you have to run from the po-lice a few years from now."

We all laugh at him and he just looks mildly alarmed. He'll be fine. One day he'll get tired of running and stand up and take his medicine like the honorable man I know he will become soon.

 

[Whiskey]

Cindi:

For you folk out there that haven't had the pleasure of being face to face with a Florida roache or palmetto roache be very happy, they are huge down here and love to fly (yes I said fly). get one on the inside of your pants leg or shorts well enuff said!!!!

OK, back to subject CINDI more stories pleeeeease were begging here /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Whiskey

 

[utahmule]

I here you loud and clear on that account. I hate to think how I would have turned out as a person if my dad had not provided a firm hand(belt, boot, etc) to keep on the straight and narrow.

I could have really turned out to be a complete turd. Instead, I quite like who I have become. I'm not saying I'm perfect by a long shot, but I can honestly say I do the best I can most all the time.

I agree completely that those who are more concerned with being a friend than a parent are doing their kids a gross dis-service. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif What happens when they get older and have not been given the tools to be a competent adult? /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

As in so many othr elements, doing the right thing is far from easy. My hat is off to all those who make that effort an a regular basis

 

[Taylortractornut]

i saw a kid bad mouth dad on a job dad s one of the best dozer operators around and they had highshoolers hoppin hubs on the job infron to the dozer. The guy had a problem of playing too much and dad had to stop and wait for them to uncover them. After that day dad told him either act right or he was fire when he walked off from dad he called him a stupid mf, I then saw what a well aimed clod to the back of the head was good for. the next day someone was acting right and was repling yes sir and no sir. A few weeks ago the smae fella came byt and thanked dad for teaching him to act grown up, after his 2 freinds where in jail.
My dad believed in time out as in time out to let his belt hand rest. I have older friends with kids and step kids that amazes me what ive heard, them say when asked to take the trash out or any little thing like that. I had a friend tat took a stand his step son told when asked to mow the law your not my father well my freind chunked him his clothes books and everything eles out in the yard and said its my rules and my house the stepson almost won in court

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I've done that as well, chunked every single thing he owned out in the yard for leaving something valuable of mine out in the yard to get rained on. Once he got angry about something and chunked my cell phone. I was there to witness it. I didn't say a word, didn't go pick up the phone, didn't check to see if it was broken. What I did do is march into his room, got his CD player down from the shelf, took it out in full view of him and smashed it to bits with a ball peen hammer.

By then he had retreived the phone and discovered it was fine and he complained to me about that. I told him I was operating under the assumption that it was damaged and would likely do the same thing the next time. So far we haven't had to test it.

I told him he could earn the money for another CD player by doing a list of chores. He has since replaced it, and now has an idea what it feels like to have to pay for something on his own. I'd rather not talk about the CD OF MINE that was in his player when I smashed it! Lol!

I have probably given ya'll a pretty bad impression of him. He's really not a bad kid, smart as a whip, but he has some bad moments.

 

[utahmule]

You're my kind of people!!!

Heck no, I don't think anybody thinks your son is bad. If no one cares enough to correct him, teach him right from wrong, then he'll turn out ot be a bad person.

 

[mikim]

He's not bad he's 13 !! All 5 of mine turned sour from 13 to 17 - a couple worst then the other 3 but 13 is that magic number when the hormones kick in and the brains leave for vacation. Bill Cosby says it's brain damage from birth that takes 13 years to occur. One of my girls spent her 16th birthday in a hospital where we had to deposit her in the middle of the night immediately after picking her up at the police station (the third time). She now has 2 kids of her own and works for a lawyer making close to 70K a year -- she's a looker and has a photographic memory -- but only a GED for education. She was bored with H.S. -- took all advanced courses, never did homework, and pulled straight A's - when we could keep her in class. Anyway - after all the H_ll she put us through - she turned out great - the others are doing OK too. Just got to stay on top of 'em during the "difficult" years and let them know their decisions - good & bad - have corresponding consequences.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Well said. I know his hormones are raging, he keeps sneaking out of the house after dark to make these furtive phone calls that I know are to girls. I veiw that as a positive sign tho. If he has to act like a human being to attract the fairer sex, maybe it'll stick.

 

[bgott]

"If he has to act like a human being to attract the fairer sex, maybe it'll stick."

Nah, the girls are just as dumb as the boys. They go for those "Rebels without a clue". I used to get old junk cars given to me for the asking when I was 13 and up. I could stumble around and get lucky and get half of them running. I was just a little, nah, real goofy when I was a kid and not real popular. But, when I pulled up in some smoking, illegal, beat up POS next to girls that wouldn't even talk to me in school they would always hop in for a little ride around the block. That takes away all the incentive to act like a gentleman. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Oh well, thank you SO much for bursting that trembling, fragile little bubble I've been nurturing for the last few years! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif