Kids say the darndest things

“Lots better, thanks.”

“I goin' off the rails on a crazy train!

Locomotive Breath

Orange Blossom Special

You never called me darlin'




Yep, they all sound the same to me.”

“I admit to me having weird mood changing music tastes...but I def. do NOT like country.

It can't be country. It better not be country.
Only country song so far I like is from KidRock. LOL I can not add another one to my list. I just can't. that would make me weird.”

“You are on TT Gem.
You are already wierd. ;-)”

“It's ok Gem. Up here there is a radio station that plays country, and rock. They call themselves the Crock. You don't have to be ashamed! LOL!”

“Last night my wife had a PTO meeting. As she's leaving Reece walks into the kitchen and sayd, "Dad, mom is leaving for a meeting. You're in charge, OK?"

At least someone thinks so on occasion, LOL.”

“LOL, all the Senior Officers of the department had to be at a commission meeting last night. The group ahead of us was a Constitutional study group for their proclimation of "Constitution Week". As the ladies got up one told her little (say 5 years old) daughter to stay seated.
They were up there for about 5 minutes and then returned. In the quiet as they returned to their seats the little girl says (in a voice only a small child can make)'I have waited for you guys to get back for LIKE EVER!"”

“LOL, that's good stuff.”

“LOL.....my fav thread!!!!

...thanks for sharing...”

“..no wonder he didn't want me to read it.

Picky Eater

I am a picky eater.

I wonder what were going to eat.
I hear my mom yell “Dinner” as I go to wash my hands.
I see the nasty food that is on the plate.
I walk to my chair and try to walk away.

I am a picky eater.

I pretend to like the food that I’m eating.
I feel the gag in my mouth as I slowly chew the food.
I touch my spoon and slowly put it back down.
I worry if I’m going to have more.
I cry when I’m not even close to finishing.

I am a picky eater.

I understand why she’s giving me this food.
I say no as she gives me more food.
I dream of eating the food I like.
I try to throw the food away.
I hope I don’t get caught in the process.
I am a picky eater.


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damn, now what am I gonna cook?”

“Certainly not that nasty food you are cooking now. ;-)
hee hee hee....”

“Make him go for a 15 mile hike before you feed him again. Everything tastes good after that. ;D”

“yeah, that's what I thought...I make him hike.

hahahaha. he forgot to tell that he's the one that can't have his food touch or he won't eat it, that he don't even like pizza...yeah, lets start talking about beeing picky. LOL”

“Ha! Too funny! What the heck are you trying to feed that kid anyway? lol.


Maybe one night a week let him choose the dinner menu and cook it too.”

“I started doing that at ten. By the time I moved out I knew how to cook real well.



This morning Abby woke me up by crawling in my bed. She told me she had a bad dream and was going on and on about how much she doesn't like bad dreams. I asked her what it was about at least four times before she hid her head under the blanket and said "A alligator with fuzzy fur on the trail at the kids hike", then she popped her head out and said "I wish there was a trap door in my brain that I could take bad dreams out of!".”

“Oh that's cute, Sass! I think Laurel would've been delighted to find a fuzzy alligator on the trail! Her latest bad dream was her playing with my parents' dog and she hurt the dog really bad. She woke up crying from that one.”

“"I wish there was a trap door in my brain that I could take bad dreams out of!".” -Abby

Me too, Abby. Me too.


Gem - It's time that kid learned to cook for himself.”

“My daughter has gotten very concerned about just how the baby gets born. My wife has come up with a trap door explanation that seemed to appease her.”

“A couple days ago my girls were starting a movie, and at the end of one of the previews it said "Coming in October 2004". At hearing this my three year old gasps and turns to her five year old sister and says "what day is today?!" and the 5y/o replies "It's ok it's still Tuesday". LMAO! They're so funny!”

“That's a cute story Sass. If she continues to have bad dreams, the two of you could make an Indian "dream catcher" and hang it on the wall over her bed. Worked wonders for my daughter.”

“When I was a kid I had to eat everything on my plate. Dinner was not fun. When I was raising my kids I started out doing the same thing. Then I had one of those epiphany thingees. I realized that, as a chronological adult, I didn't even purchase food I didn't like. Yet, for some reason, my kids were required to eat whatever I prepared. I had a talk with the kids and from that point on no one had to eat anything they chose not to eat. Meal time became fun and the kids still live.”

“My two little sisters were allowed to eat only what they wanted.
Ten years between my sister's births and mine so my parents had mellowed, LOL.
One sister ate everything put in front of her and wanted more. She's healthy and slim today.
The other sister was 'picky' and ate only popcorn, plain hamburger, french fries, and ice cream. She's kinda fluffy and not so healthy today.

There does need to be some kind of middle ground.
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“You could be right, Stovey. The question is whether or not there was a causal relationship between the eating habits of each child and their eventual body weight/type. Both my kids are extremely conscious of their nutritious habits today and both are in excellent health in all respects. Many times I see this as more of a parental control issue than anything else.”

“You should deffinatly make him cook that way after a while anything that you cook will be so much easier and better that he will appreciate it”

“I thinkk so Nimble. My wife will sit there with my son until he eats even if it's an hour. I'll give him 10-15 more minutes than it took me to eat and if he's not eating then too bad, supper is over.”

“all you parents need to stop coddling these little punks.

if they don't wanna eat whats in front of them then fine, back to their closet they go.”

“I served my kids "in" the closet (but they still didn't have to eat what they didn't want), lol.”

“Nimblefoot, we came to a similar epiphany, after realizing we were forcing our kids to eat everything due to our own bad habits (forced on us by our parents). Now the rules are they must take one bite of everything on their plate so they get the exposure. And they don't have to finish everything on the plate, but then they don't get desert; we don't want them to eat one bite of everything and then claim they get desert. Its also a way to make the point that you don't have to have desert after every meal (I'm still trying to learn that one, LOL).”

“A nutritionist spoke at our Kiwanis club a year or two back and she pretty much backed up what tech said. Our folks made us finish everything and then we got dessert. Why should we always get dessert and why should we be made to eat everything put in front of us? This last part is what gets you nailed calorie wise when you eat out.”

“more cute stories! less blathering about mommy making you eat your veggies!
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“OK CB, here's one, if I've already posted it then I apologize:

A week or so ago Reece hoped out of the van and landed on my wife's foot. He sort of bumped into her very pregnant belly. He said, "Mom, I hope I didn't hurt you and the baby. I don't want this baby to die like the last one." We had a miscarriage a year ago and never, ever used the word "die." He figured it out though.

Not really a cute story, but still sorta sweet.
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“its cute in a dark sort of way. i like it”

“That story is heartbreaking, dayhiker.
Reese is pretty smart.”

“Mama just about cried.”

“Kinda on the dark side too...

My grandmother passed away 2 weeks ago, and I now have her car. Its a Big Blue Bomber of a car, a '93 Caprice Classic in baby blue. Drives like a tank on marshmallows. Anyway, I've been driving it for the last week and have slowly been going through the various compartments clearing out some of the stuff. Yesterday I found a pendant in one of the pockets so I brought it in to give to my wife. My oldest says, quite seriously, "do you think Mee-Maw would have wanted you to have that?"

Maybe not so funny, but it was touching to me.”

“That is sweet.”

“My wifes grandad died about a year ago. He would always make funny faces at Emma. It used to scare her. Now she'll say, I miss papaw Davis, I wish he could still make funny faces.

Sometimes at bedtime prayers she'll say "Thank you for papaw Davis."

My in-laws spent Monday night with us. My father in law got a little misty eyed on the first story.”

“I have a friend who fell off a bridge and broke his back and a few other miscellaneous parts about 5 years ago. Shortly after coming home from the hospital, while yet bandaged, casted and all swollen up, he was visited by his 5 year old grand daughter. She came up next to him and asked if he was going to die? After he hugged her and responded "no", she replied, "good, because all my other grandpa's are dead." After I finished the ROFLMAO bit, I told him that if the other was still living, his demise wouldn't have been that big of a deal.”

“That's a cute story Sass. If she continues to have bad dreams, the two of you could make an Indian "dream catcher" and hang it on the wall over her bed. Worked wonders for my daughter.”
Creek Dancer
1:24:54 PM


I tried that Creek Dancer. She does have alot of bad dreams and will often wake up screaming or crying. One morning I found it in the corner behind her door and asked her what it was doing there. Her response was "THAT THING DOES NOT WORK!", lol.

It was pretty cool too, three catchers in a row with pink feathers.”

“Good luck with Santa Claus”

“we did the dream catcher thing too and both kids told me it didn't work. :)
It was fun making them though!”

“Wouldn't a trap door be nice for all of us? How adorable! That's too bad that the dream catcher didn't work. It has for Tuck and Luke. What about worry dolls? Maybe you could try that.


"A couple days ago my girls were starting a movie, and at the end of one of the previews it said "Coming in October 2004". At hearing this my three year old gasps and turns to her five year old sister and says "what day is today?!" and the 5y/o replies "It's ok it's still Tuesday". LMAO! They're so funny!”
meangreen
12:15:01 PM
8/24/06"

Meangreen, I am truly laughing out loud over that one!!!!! Love it!!”

“The 5y/o was SO serious when she said it too.
When I heard it I just broke out laughing, and all 3 of them just looked at me like "what?"”

“Tonight we had a reveral of appetites. Reece as chowing down and Emma was just picking at her dinner. The comment was made that if she wouldn't try to eat junk during the day she'd be hungry at supper. Reece replied, "I don't like junk, well, just some of it."

PS. She asked for a snack 1 hr before dinner, which she did not get and was still not eating. Kids.”

“i <3 junk”

“Also, it's so nice that the kids are the age that I can go out of town and come back with 2 bording passes for gifts and they think that's cool.”

“dayhiker when will the new one be here?”

“While in a supermarket que, my 4yr old commented about a man who had placed 2 bottles of a caffein related beverage and a block of chocolate on the counter.
"Gee he's not a very healthy eater."
Which made everyone in the que laugh and me and the guy blush.”

“any day now. Offically 9/17, but at the doc visit yesterday they said anytime.”

“on my way out this morning our baby looked at me a said gooo...i'm not sure what he meant”