Kids

[Trace]

In the run up to the last elections, my nine year old asked me if I was going to vote for the conservatries!!

Glass house to run the country anyone?

[RED-DOG]

My youngest, William, gets obsessive about various things, he gets away with his actions because he is so damn cute. He had a blonde classroom assistant at his special school for a while who, one summer's day wore a T-shirt with a, slightly lower than normal, neck line. William noticed a tattoo above her bra line when she bent over, it was the girls zodiac sign, Cancer. For months after, when he saw the opportunity, he used to look down ladies blouses etc and when asked once what he was looking for he said "crabs".

Brilliant!

[Rod Paradise]

At a barbeque with friends one of their toddlers fell over. To try and distract the kid to stop her crying they all start 'Oh Darn' ie getting her to say something instead of crying. Clear as a bell she says 'Oh f*ck' - cue Rod rolling on the ground crying with laughter at the faces of her Gran (horrified), Mum (glaring at her Dad like "That's YOUR fault you bastard") & Dad (waiting for ground to open).

They're still not happy with my reaction because the wee one took it as approval & they'd a terrible time stopping her doing it whenever she wanted attention.  

Another cracker was my ex's nieces. we were baby-sitting & heard the middle one (about 6) say f*ck. Aunty & Auny's Bidey-in (me) are being all adult explaining that that's a bad word to her & her wee sister.

Melissa replies with "but f*ck's not a bad word". We ask her why she thinks this.

"Daddy says 'God's Sake' & 'F*ck's Sake' & Mum tells him off for it. God's not a bad word so it must be sake".

We then realised that the kids had been thinking they were getting away with swearing when they kept saying sake at eachother  .

Needless to say my adult demeanour disappeared as I again burst out laughing. I'm just destined to be a great example to kids - the type of example where parents can go 'Don't you EVER be like him'.  

[tikay]

Well enough - more than enough - heat has been generated by this thread, & like so many things in life, it was "out of a clear blue sky". One moment all was going long nicely, meandering in true blonde style, then KSABOOM, all hell is let loose.

But you know what struck me most forcibly? - the amount of folks who quite deliberately posted & tried to "lighten it up", to change the subject, to cool the thing down. Even Ariston did it.

I fancy if a blondeite ever needed help, he'd be overwhelmed with blondeites rushing to his or her aid.

"Where is Grandad Headmaster when you need him"?......... Busy building a mountainous stack at Sheffield, whilst getting to know The Nun.