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« on: July 13, 2009, 08:11:51 PM » |
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Why will boys be boys???? Why do they have to try dumb stuff.... especially when their Dad is gone??? I came home today and found that I no longer have a front door....... it was "taken out" by Sam, a dare and a dirt bike...... oh and a skateboard ramp. It's probably a good thing for him that Duct Tape is across the pond for the week. He might be able to walk again by InZane.... or not!
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DavRed
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 09:32:57 PM » |
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Mom’s are angels amongst us!!! You will do what is right here, aswell!!!
God Bless You
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 04:37:18 AM » |
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Did you say "a dare and a dirt bike"? Thats all most of us need to create havoc. The "why?" Sorry, God made us thise way. Don't hurt them too bad ok?
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« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 05:02:49 AM » |
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Famous last words: " Hey, watch this!!!! "  |
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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 05:15:28 AM » |
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If it was a double dog dare. He really had no other choice. Hard to blame him in that case. Looks like more investigation is needed.
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And as i shifted into 5th I couldn't remember a thing she said.
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 05:26:46 AM » |
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Famous last words: " Hey, watch this!!!! " Ya, that quote changes as they mature........it goes........"hey, hold my beer, watch this" hehehe |
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2009, 05:29:25 AM » |
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Be thankful he didn't get the chainsaw engine mounted up... If it was a double dog dare. He really had no other choice. Hard to blame him in that case. Looks like more investigation is needed.
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2009, 05:43:22 AM » |
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My 2 year old is nickmaned Captain DeStructo!!
That only gets worse with age.
I am still tearing stuff up and I am 40.
It's not our fault! I swear. It's IN our very nature.
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2009, 05:53:11 AM » |
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If he and the one who dared him (I'm assuming brother) have to repair the door themselves and if the cost comes out of their pocket then they MIGHT, (I repeat MIGHT) think twice in the future.
But, I wouldn't count on it, I think that my son has a permanent flat spot on the back of his head from all the times that I slapped him there saying, "Why didn't you think?".
Boys will be Boys, but I am still thankful that I didn't have to raise a daughter. I just don't have that level of patience.
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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2009, 09:03:17 AM » |
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Send them to a planet far, far away.  just hope they don't get into pyro stuff |
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« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2009, 10:08:32 AM » |
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Send them to a planet far, far away. just hope they don't get into pyro stuff Yep... we've done that scenerio already.... had to move to temp housing for 6 months for a "science experiment" with a can of PAM and a lighter....UGH.... a little bit of fire goes a long way ... the girls NEVER did anything like that  |
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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2009, 10:18:29 AM » |
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Sell dirt bike
Buy new door
Take rest of the cost out in labor outside of normal chores (prefferably ones that cause physical pain) or cancelled fun stuff. Boy scout camp, school trip, ect.
Pull his plug. ie if it has a cord, batteries or a screen, he doesnt touch it or look at it if someone else is using it. It really kills them to have to leave the room when his sister wants to watch TV.
If he is old enough for a dirt bike then he is old enough to take responsability for it. Fear, pain, and hunger are the worlds greatest motivators. Buy a nice front door and you can break him of peer pressure BS pretty fast as long as it hurts enough to remember.
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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2009, 11:07:27 AM » |
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Why will boys be boys???? Why do they have to try dumb stuff....
At a recent reunion, I was reminded that we were once called to help a friend who was living in an abandoned church and had stuck a Harley-Davidson into a wall, higher off the floor than should have been possible. It was the result of what seemed like a good idea at the time. Ask your boys, they can tell you.  |
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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2009, 11:46:37 AM » |
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When i was a young lad. My dad used to howler at me for braking things only to watch him 5 minutes later do the same thing. Its something in the Y chromosome im sure of it.
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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2009, 12:09:37 PM » |
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Knew a guy who sold doors door to door. I could look him up for you and send one back with the boss.  |
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« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2009, 12:31:03 PM » |
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The sucessfullness of a young mans childhood can be measured by the number of trips to the hospital for stiches. Mine was a success at around 9.2 trips. .8 missing for that bandaid applied over what should have been stitches that one time the hatchet slipped at a boy scout campout...
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2009, 02:15:18 PM » |
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MY BOYS
Little boys are always sticky,
Hair uncombed, and manners icky.
They dig worms and tear up boxes,
Squish though mud and lose their soxes.
Three cents a pound is all they’re worth,
Most precious things I have on earth.
by Christine L. Johnson
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And, after having raised four girls, I'll guarantee you their shenanigans will match anything your boys ever did or will do. Yes...right down to the dirt bike....borrowed in this case. Famous last words one afternoon, one sister to another; "sure you can ride it, I did, clutch on the left and brake on the right. No problem." In the back yard, through the screen door on the patio and out the other side of the screened in area. I walked out and calmly asked...."did you lose control for a few seconds there?" The girls were so scared I'd do something three of the four wet themselves. I just gathered them all together, put my arms around them and asked if they were OK. Kissed each one and suggested they had some work to do re. the repairs. I said nothing more about it. Funny thing happened, we all lived through it.
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« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2009, 02:23:25 PM » |
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Boys will be Boys, but I am still thankful that I didn't have to raise a daughter. I just don't have that level of patience.
Raised (uh, maybe STILL raising!) 3 daughters, no sons. I had bright red hair at one tiime. When first daughter was born, my hair went brown. Second daughter, it went gray. Third daughter, it just went. Wouldn't change a thing.  |
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« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2009, 03:00:04 PM » |
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement........nuf said
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« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2009, 03:20:10 PM » |
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I opened my eyes in the Hospital, I had been unconscious for about 16-18 hours, I saw my Mom, Dad, Grandparents, two doctors and I think our Rabbi. My mom asked me if I was alright and I said yes, then I asked what was wrong, and she said I fractures my scull, I asked why was there a cast on my leg and they said I broke that too. They asked me what I remembered (I was found that way in the middle of the street in front of my apartment building in The Bronx). I said "The last thing I remember was Richie saying 'I dare you' " Then I jumped off the back of the truck we were hitching on! I was 14.
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« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2009, 04:20:16 PM » |
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When I was a kid, I accidentally burned four of our ten acre hay field with fireworks....dad tore up my a$$. When I was four, we moved into our brand new house. I thought the laundry room would look better painted in black Permatex that I found in my dad's tool cabinet....dad tore up my a$$. When my brother was in high school, he and a friend (in friends Rambler) were skipping school one day when they blew through a rail-road crossing trying to beat a train. They got hit by said train...nobody got hurt but it tore up the Rambler....dad torn up my brothers a$$. My same brother was gonna run speaker wire in his room when he got the great idea it would be cool to run it under the floor so the wire wouldn't be seen. He also thought it would be expedient to make the holes in the floor with a Remington 30-06. Unfortunately, he hit the main water line running into the house......when mom and dad got home, dad tore up my brothers a$$ I really don't know why boys will be boys |
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« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2009, 04:34:21 PM » |
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Double Dog Dare?
Combined with:
Hey, watch this!
Its a kid thing!
Make 'em help fix the door and tell 'em you love 'em.
Then get ready for the next time!
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« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2009, 06:20:26 PM » |
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Well... the good news is that Roger has had time to think about it and he's calmed down a bit. It's probably a good thing he is in Hungary. He called this morning and said "Well... we needed a new door anyway. I guess we'll just be getting it a little sooner". Sam will still be doing some hard time. He does have the advantage of being the bottom of 8. (5 boys & 3 girls) Who could be mad at this Opie Taylor face for too long anyway?  |
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« Reply #24 on: July 14, 2009, 07:49:59 PM » |
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cute kid,
But you can see in his eyes that he will bend or break a lot more than a door before he gets old enough to have his own kids!
Good luck
Jim
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2009, 06:02:03 AM » |
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And on the "boys will be boys" catagory... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31910113/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A boy celebrating his third birthday was unhurt and apparently unfazed after he floated nearly eight miles down a river riding atop his toy truck, police said. Bet he wants to go again! |
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« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2009, 11:11:31 AM » |
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement........nuf said
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« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2009, 05:34:11 AM » |
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I hate to even THINK about some of the dumb crap I did.
I made pipe bombs a lot when I was a kid. I liked to set them off in the swimming hole at the creek. It muffled the noise, and I thought it was cool to blow all the water out of the hole, so the creek stopped running for a minute while it refilled. It'd be national news today.
I had a 1983 Honda ATC 185S. Three wheeler. We used to tow each other around the fields on a sheet of plywood with 2x4 runners, and try to throw one another off. We would ride the 3 wheeler, whoile giving each other opportunities to dislodge the rider for their turn.
BB gun wars. A LOT. we wore safety glasses, but we always had little bloody welts all over us.
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« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2009, 08:44:16 AM » |
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I hate to even THINK about some of the dumb crap I did.
I made pipe bombs a lot when I was a kid. I liked to set them off in the swimming hole at the creek. It muffled the noise, and I thought it was cool to blow all the water out of the hole, so the creek stopped running for a minute while it refilled. It'd be national news today.
I had a 1983 Honda ATC 185S. Three wheeler. We used to tow each other around the fields on a sheet of plywood with 2x4 runners, and try to throw one another off. We would ride the 3 wheeler, whoile giving each other opportunities to dislodge the rider for their turn.
BB gun wars. A LOT. we wore safety glasses, but we always had little bloody welts all over us.
Jabba
We thrived on BB gun wars! Once we built a "fort' out of logs, put one guy inside with a BB gun and then at least three others would attack him with BB guns blazing. We never wore safety glasses but never aimed above the chest (yeah, we were that acurate  ). I shot a friend in the a$$ with a .177 cal pellet gun once. It stuck in his butt a little and we had to pick it out. My BB gun of choice was the Daisy pump. Held 50-BB's, was accurate and hard hitting. I must have worn our four or five growing up. Funny that you mention the pipe bomb. We use to make bombs using M-80's and Cherry-Bombs...what a riot! They have been outlawed for years. Ahhhh those were the days. Glad I grew up when and where I did. Most kids today only play video games...how sad. |
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« Reply #29 on: July 16, 2009, 09:00:04 AM » |
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Guess I was just to young to do the bad stuff. I just would dig in the hard-packed sand of the irrigation ditch banks and drill little holes in the sand with a stick, then put a firecracker in the hole to use as 'dynamite' and blow things up.
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« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2009, 09:01:34 AM » |
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One of my favorite Thanksgiving traditions, is sitting with my folks (in their 80's) and my brother (we're 50 & 53), talking about all the things my brother and I did, when we were growing up  Many times, my folks just shake their heads and mutter to them selves... Other times we find out that they knew about some of the things we did, all along  Now, I've got two boys of my own, and my mothers prediction has come true. She always used to say, "I hope you have boys of your own, so I can sit and laugh, when they pay you back"... Boys will be boys  Black Dog |
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« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2009, 09:08:57 AM » |
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Me? I never did nuttin! NUTTIN I TELL YA!! It must of been someone else,just looked like me!  |
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« Reply #32 on: July 16, 2009, 10:02:19 AM » |
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I had a lot of gasoline fires in the gravel driveway. Fun to ride your bike thru.
We had all sorts of combat games. We used to pretend knife fight in shorts, shirtless, with crayola markers for proof of wounds.
We used to play "tag" in our cars. Especially in the winter. If you could get within 15' of your buddy... it was a tag.
We used to do bumper sledding a lot too. One guy drive, while pulling the other thru the neighborhood hanging onto the bumper. I got a buddy of mine up to about 50 MPH one. I made the curve and he didn't. Lucky for us the kids that lived there had built a BIG snowman in front of the concrete stoop, because without the snowman to decelerate my buddy... he'd have been TOAST when he hit the house.
Water baloon launchers...
Tennis ball cannons...
Spud guns...
Water balloons out of moving cars (and trucks too)
Everything SEEMED reasonable at the time. I swear!!.
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