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airehead
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 Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:43 Post subject: Knowing you...
(or your mate) and how you behaved (or didn't) as teens/young adults, would you be scared for your kids to emulate your behavior???
Me: no. I was the hugest dork there ever was.
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genie
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:44 Post subject:
Why do you think I'm not having any kids? 
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:44 Post subject:
In some instances yes!
Bottle Rocket wars are not a smart thing.
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akern
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:45 Post subject:
Yes definately.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:45 Post subject:
No. I didn't do much.
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airehead
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:46 Post subject:
| Floridaboiler wrote: | In some instances yes!
Bottle Rocket wars are not a smart thing. |
Neither is mixing all the household chemicals in a pit in the field and then leaning over it to see if it's flammable.
From what I've heard, it's flammable.
And, no, I'm not married to someone who once tried this.... 
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Cappy
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:52 Post subject:
No
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 18:53 Post subject:
I was as innocent as the driven snow until I wasn't.
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andydp
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 19:07 Post subject:
At least what I did in college. (Son was emulating dad for 2 semesters...)
Prior to college: major nerdatron (Both kids were in the cool category)
Edited to add: When my kids ask what I did during my college years I tell them "None of your business."
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 19:49 Post subject:
yes. the stbmr is really smart, but was bored to death in high school, so he skipped a bunch, then quit all together. and hes very sneaky. and quite a trouble maker (but also good at getting out of it).
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brie k
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 20:40 Post subject:
Yes. I'm very afraid. Kramer and I were very rowdy in our teen years.
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HighHeat
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 20:48 Post subject:
Will I be worried? Yes.
Do I hope they experience more than I did, and still get through safely? Yes.
Weird. It's like a paradox, because if I had to do over again, I'd have taken way more chances, and on some level, I hope they do too,...as long as ...
A: it doesn't harm them
B: I don't ever find out about it.
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 20:53 Post subject:
Yup, I'm worried about that too. I was way worse than DH for sure. The only thing I find comforting is having done the things I did, I can say don't do things cuz I know from experience what it was like. And what the end results can be.  Now, will they listen to me? Oh wait we are talking about my kids.  I'm in for it.
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genie
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 20:53 Post subject:
This sums it up pretty well:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored
lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms (only with some tomato sauce for me) and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had ! freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the liberals regulated our lives for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
it?!
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brie k
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Posted: 01/20/05 - 20:53 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Yup, I'm worried about that too. I was way worse than DH for sure. The only thing I find comforting is having done the things I did, I can say don't do things cuz I know from experience what it was like. And what the end results can be. Now, will they listen to me? Oh wait we are talking about my kids. I'm in for it. |
Esp. if your momma ever uttered the words "I hope someday you have kids just like you." My mother said this. Often.
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