03-17-2010, 23:27
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Why Boys Need Parents
Boys. Gotta love 'em! (What else can a mother do while rapidly going gray?) 
-Susan
Note - knife picture removed - Richard
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03-17-2010, 23:33
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The knife picture made me cringe worse than the crocodile one.
I excelled at fridge-climbing too when I was little.
The hill picture reminds me of when I was 11 or 12 and went down a hill like that on roller blades, except instead of water, there were tons of cacti. Only way I could stop was using my knees and elbows to skid to a stop.
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03-18-2010, 00:19
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Last week my Grandson walked over to his mother who was planting tomatoes in her garden and said, "here I am tired of playing with this." He calmly handed her a two foot coral snake. Yeah it was, she looked it up... I would have simply died on the spot.
It wasn't my boys that gave me all this grey, it was my baby girl.. she liked to run with scissors..her son is her all over again.
Then there was the day I came home to find the pair of them., son and dtr, had captured a 2 foot gator and given it a home in my bathtub. 
Give me boys any day of the week. They keep life to interesting for words. 
AM
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03-18-2010, 00:54
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“Now son, there’s nothing more dangerous than a dull knife…”
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03-18-2010, 07:23
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Originally Posted by NORMAL550GIRL
WOW, AM! I thought my sons were a handful...but the worst they did was eat dirt and calmly inform me that "Bugs don't taste good." |
For the most part they are right... ants, however are quite tasty if you like spicy things.
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03-18-2010, 07:48
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San Diego. Navy Housing. Wife and I come home from dinner out. My 8y/o son meets me in the driveway ahead of the babysitter and says, "I can explain everything!"
"OK", says I "Explain."
"OK, so Mary Jo (the 6 y/o little sister) and I were in the backyard with the water balloons and I went in to fill one up and found this big red one…you know the one mom got for the yard sale?...anyway I filled it up with water in the tub and was rolling it outside because it was too heavy to carry and it popped in the living room. It was Mary Jo's fault! I tried to clean it up but couldn't…your Dust Buster and mom's vacuum wouldn't get it all. And that's what happened. See?"
We didn't use that babysitter again.
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03-18-2010, 09:31
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Originally Posted by LarryW
San Diego. Navy Housing. Wife and I come home from dinner out. My 8y/o son meets me in the driveway ahead of the babysitter and says, "I can explain everything!"
"OK", says I "Explain."
"OK, so Mary Jo (the 6 y/o little sister) and I were in the backyard with the water balloons and I went in to fill one up and found this big red one…you know the one mom got for the yard sale?...anyway I filled it up with water in the tub and was rolling it outside because it was too heavy to carry and it popped in the living room. It was Mary Jo's fault! I tried to clean it up but couldn't…your Dust Buster and mom's vacuum wouldn't get it all. And that's what happened. See?"
We didn't use that babysitter again.
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Having raised two daughters who often babysat, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have come back!
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03-18-2010, 10:54
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My parent's next door neighbors' had 2 little boys. One about 2 and the other about 7. One day the mom comes knocking on my mom's door, needing help, because my mom is a nurse.
Mom walks over and finds the little one's hands superglued to his penis, and the opening has been superglued shut. When asked why he was playing with superglue, he said he wanted his penis to be as big as his big brother's. Somehow he thought he could superglue it straight to make it bigger! 
Lots of turpentine later, he was good as new!
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03-18-2010, 11:51
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My youngest son,3 years old,was out in the back yard with me and his 2 older brothers,5 and 9 years old picking "night crawlers" after a heavy soaking to get them to come out.........  He was holding one in his hand wiggling when I asked him to give it to me he stuffed it in his mouth and swallowed it in defiance..............  I later found out his brothers told him he could do that after he caught 5 of them!......... Boys!!!!!!!
Big Teddy 
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03-18-2010, 11:55
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Guerrilla Chief
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he wanted his penis to be as big as his big brother's
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So the "size matters" thing starts as early as age 2? I had no idea... 
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03-18-2010, 11:59
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It wasn't my boys that gave me all this grey, it was my baby girl.. she liked to run with scissors..her son is her all over again./Quote/armymom
I couldn't agree more my only daughter caused me more than just grey hairs,but thats a story for another day..... 
Big Teddy
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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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03-18-2010, 13:17
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My mom caught my older brother, about aged 6, eating dirt by the handful one day. She asked him why he was doing that. He replied, " I heard that we all eat a pound of dirt in our lifetime on tv, so I am just getting it over now. "
When he was a teen, my brother and friends were out squirrel hunting when they killed a 8 foot long pine rattler. He had it layed out in the den to measure with mom's sewing tape. She walked in the door, stepped over it like it wasn't realy there.. NO reaction. After she was safely in the kitchen she turned around and said, "you cannot scare me, I had four younger brothers." and went about making supper. My brother promptly removed the reptile to the carport.
Then there was the time he tied me up and placed me in a tree so I could not take off while he worked on his hotrod. I am 9 yrs younger.. I was about 9 at the time.. Mom walked by calmly removed me from the tree still tied up and carried me in the house. I rememer that incident. I was not happy. She let me sit on the couch for awhile before she untied me.
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03-18-2010, 13:29
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Originally Posted by armymom1228
Last week my Grandson walked over to his mother who was planting tomatoes in her garden and said, "here I am tired of playing with this." He calmly handed her a two foot coral snake. Yeah it was, she looked it up... I would have simply died on the spot.
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WOW, glad that turned out ok, could have been very bad, coral snakes were the one critter I always tried to steer clear of when I was a boy in NC.
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03-18-2010, 17:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afchic
My parent's next door neighbors' had 2 little boys. One about 2 and the other about 7. One day the mom comes knocking on my mom's door, needing help, because my mom is a nurse.
Mom walks over and finds the little one's hands superglued to his penis, and the opening has been superglued shut. When asked why he was playing with superglue, he said he wanted his penis to be as big as his big brother's. Somehow he thought he could superglue it straight to make it bigger!
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So THAT’S what the kid with the knife is doing in that picture…
Someone get the kid with the knife some turpentine!
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03-19-2010, 00:07
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Turpentine?!?! Yikes!!! That's gotta hurt. I tired "Bactine" once, as a kid, and thought I was going to die! Turpentine?!?! Yikes!!!
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