Parenting Magazine

Lying and Kids

What would the world be like with out Mom-isms Ran across this wonderful site on Digg: 16 Lies Mothers Tell. What sort of lies did your parents tell you, because I know this doesn’t only apply to Mom’s. As a guy I am particularly fond of 13. “You’re going to poke someone’s eye out with that!” Because as it was explained that just made me swing the stick, lightsaber and eventually real sword even harder. Of course as recent evidence proves number 16. “If you keep playing with it, it will fall off someday,” is not only false, but playing with it may help prevent prostate cancer which is showing up at ever younger ages in men. There are even thoughts that masturbation may help prevent testicular cancer too. Read more of this Parenting Magazine Article

Liam and “The New Pet”

We love Liam, but there are days when we roll our eyes at God and ask, “Oh Lord, how hell did two super smart people end up with such a fucking idiot for a child?” Then we remember he is nine. Then sometimes I say it’s normal because he has a penis. (Sorry guys, but it’s true, you are ruled by the whims of your hormones, even more so than us women.) Then I realize it doesn’t really matter, because he is ours and we love him.

I rant because he tends to be a loud mouth idiot who babbles on for hours about crap he lacks any understanding of to people who really don’t care, don’t want to hear it, or that he should be paying attention rather than the other way around. We haven’t told him of the baby. He isn’t stupid by any means, even if he has some learning problems mostly in delayed abilities because he was between 4 to 6 weeks premature. (I’ll talk about idiot doctors soon enough, but that’s another post) Right now when Brad and I need to talk about it, we either YIM from across the room or when other family members are present it is referred to as the new pet. We’ve decided to wait until we know the sex of the baby to tell him, that way he can say with confidence that he is having a brother or sister. Of course, I am totally dreading the thought of him asking how the baby came to be. I do NOT need to be having THE TALK with my ten year old son. That’s Brad’s job.