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[oakenguy]

Surprise visit from my oldest friend, her sweetie and her two kids. Ayyiiee!!! Hello, weekend plans. Goodbye, weekend plans.

They're sooooooooooooo cute, though. The first words out of Otrell's (the 6 y.o.) mouth? "I'm a mootant, and my power is super-speed. Except when I eat apples, and when I have to change my clothes."

Aedin, 3, uses roleplay and improv to get her point across! Get this: she apparently comes into the room with her doll, cradles it, and as if talking to herself mentions, "When MY baby puts fingerpaint in the computer, *I* don't yell. I give her a hug! And I say 'Oh, sweetie, no no...that's not correct!"

This, needless to say, is not exactly how events played out when it was Aedin who poured the fingerpaint in the keyboard. The night before a grant proposal was due. Ten minutes before her grandmother arrived unexpectedly. Sixteen minutes before her grandmother, Kelley's mother, said possibly the most unwise sentence ever uttered in the city of Portland: "Now, Kelley, really, in the big scheme of things, it's *just* a computer."

This is why I'll never have kids. A day will come when I'll be in a situation like that, and someone will say something like THAT, and all my veins will try to leap out of my forehead at the same time and I'll die horribly.

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[prettydaisies.livejournal.com]

>snip<
"I'm a mootant, and my power is super-speed. Except when I eat apples, and when I have to change my clothes."
>snip<

ok, that's possibly the cutest thing i've every heard out of a child's mouth. i want to use it as an email sig! corey, my SO, says it's enough to make children almost sound charming. he also says it's too bad the power doesn't work when changing clothes, as that would come in handy.

however, the fingerpaint incident is *yet another* example of why we'll never have kids. i prefer to be the spoiling and mind bending aunt than the actual parent... :)

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

Not all kids are destructive little monsters. A lot of it has to do with how you teach your child values. The modern child education system tells new parents that children are too little to know that they are being destructive and that a child needs to explore in order to learn. No child is too young to learn how to appreciate 'things'. It isn't a far stretch from appreciating people. Hmmm, maybe this is why we have sociopathic teenagers out shooting people.