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Grats, around three is the time when they're really started to cement their roles as little people. That means she'll be manipulating in more and more clever ways.

My niece's terrible two have been pretty terrible...

I'm scared.

That sounds leagues better than the "Drop on the ground, scream and flail at full power" thing she does now.

Sometimes, when I read this kind of stuff, I wonder why I want kids again...

My 11mo just learned how to blow kisses. When something cute and wobbly manages crawls her way over to you get herself up into a sitting position and blow you a kiss goodbye with a big smile on her face it helps a little.

Edited, Apr 30th 2012 9:04am by someproteinguy

I have no intention of having kids (be it by adoption or surrogacy). If I do every decide to, I'd probably choose to bypass that insane baby phase.

At one point I might have wanted to skip the beginning parts of parenthood, but at this point I wouldn't give a second of it up for anything. It's all worth it when she runs up and hugs my leg. That's really all it takes to make everything worthwhile.

And it makes me feel like an enormous weenie.

And on the note of parenting, I went out to eat at the cafe thing here because I really didn't want to cook and next to me there were 4 parents with 2 little girls (7 years old or so) one of the girls apparently hit her mother, the mother replied by hitting the girl. A little later that same girl repeatedly hit the other girl after an argument or something and her dad held her so tightly it hurt her and she was crying, when she tried to get away her dad made remarks like "I know it hurts and I don't care" and "Stay still!". Once the girl was calmed down/distracted by getting icecream for dessert the parents were talking about how the girl hit people a lot in a surprised/shocked tone.

I was literally an inch from asking them if they really were too stupid to figure out that both of her parents hurting her out of frustration and remarks like "I don't care if it hurts" was giving her a really, really ******* awful example.




Seriously, people should be forced take a freaking test before they're allowed to breed.

I think the appropriately immature reply would have been "yeah, well, you suck weenies!"

I totally agree Aeth. That's seriously messed up. There are definitely a lot of things messed up in American culture, but at least most parents wouldn't do that kind of thing here in public. They'd be too afraid of getting reported for child abuse. =x Although if they're doing that kind of crap in public, maybe they should be reported for child abuse.

Oh and protein, I have it worse. Yesterday I went for a 30 minute walk around the neighborhood, completing forgetting that I had developed a sun allergy last summer... Now my forearms are covered with little itchy red bumps. >.< I've been putting tea tree lotion on them, and it helps for a little bit. It's soooo irritating though.

I think it a prime example that despite your best efforts your kids will grow up to be little versions of you.



Yuk, well that sounds like no fun. After only 30min too? Well get better soon, and hide under those nice clouds today.

I'm just red but not too bad, I'll be surprised if it peels. Result of spending most of Saturday at a tulip festival outside Molalla, and a good reminder that I'm the only all-white person in my family.

Even the baby wasn't burnt...

I can't wait until this summer. A lot of time at the pool, lakes, waterparks, etc. It's already getting up there in heat, I just need classes to be out.

So slightly less money given to corrupt Latin American countries under the cover of a 'War on Drugs' so you have a firewall against the evil communists?



Oh right, not the asylum...

Edited, Apr 30th 2012 12:44pm by someproteinguy