Comments on: Welcome to Parenthood: Eleven Months http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/ Kris Johnson's Weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: KJToo http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4778 KJToo Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:56:42 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4778 [Comment ID #4752 Will Be Quoted Here] No real harm done. Merry Christmas, everyone. KJToo wrote:

Thagg on Friday, 22 December 2006 at 4:28 pm said:

Hmmm.

Maybe if I had phrased it in the form of a question…

It was not intended as an insult.

Merry Christmas to all type II parents in our viewing area.

Going, Going, Gone…

No real harm done. Merry Christmas, everyone.

]]> By: Thagg http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4752 Thagg Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:28:13 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4752 Hmmm. Maybe if I had phrased it in the form of a question... It was not intended as an insult. Merry Christmas to all type II parents in our viewing area. Going, Going, Gone... Hmmm.

Maybe if I had phrased it in the form of a question…

It was not intended as an insult.

Merry Christmas to all type II parents in our viewing area.

Going, Going, Gone…

]]> By: KJToo http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4751 KJToo Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:35:06 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4751 <blockquote>In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch.</blockquote> In my experience, there are two types of parents: <ol><li>Those who appreciate unsolicited "advice" that implies their parenting methods are inferior, and</li><li>Those who do not.</li></ol> Guess which type I am. KJToo wrote:

In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch.

In my experience, there are two types of parents:

  1. Those who appreciate unsolicited “advice” that implies their parenting methods are inferior, and
  2. Those who do not.

Guess which type I am.

]]> By: Thagg http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4735 Thagg Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:19:10 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4735 <blockquote>Um, write a book if you figure out how to get a t-minus 2 year old to not touch something and I’ll buy it.</blockquote> Already exists. <em>To Train Up A Child</em> by the Pearls. <a href="http://nogreaterjoy.org" rel="nofollow">Sample Articles</a> Warning: Not for wimps but their methods work, if you dare. The end result is... relaxing. Thagg wrote:

Um, write a book if you figure out how to get a t-minus 2 year old to not touch something and I’ll buy it.

Already exists.

To Train Up A Child by the Pearls.

Sample Articles

Warning: Not for wimps but their methods work, if you dare. The end result is… relaxing.

]]> By: P.G. Holyfield http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4677 P.G. Holyfield Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:16:17 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4677 <blockquote>In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch.</blockquote> Um, write a book if you figure out how to get a t-minus 2 year old to not touch something and I'll buy it. P.G. Holyfield wrote:

In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch.

Um, write a book if you figure out how to get a t-minus 2 year old to not touch something and I’ll buy it.

]]> By: Thagg http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4675 Thagg Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:09:24 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/2006/12/20/welcome-to-parenthood-eleven-months/#comment-4675 <blockquote>I scooped him up, plunked him down in the Pack-n-Play and spent an hour and a half wrestling with the tangle of cables necessary to connect the various components to one another. The end result: Kyle will not be able to reach the Xbox until he is able to stand; the remaining components will remain out of his range until he is five or six years old.</blockquote> In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch. <blockquote>There was an unfortunate incident involving rather a lot of vomit and my cornflower-blue shirt last week.</blockquote> You too? Sunday night, 0200 I awoke to something in the bathroom. It was our Middlest Broodling, on his haunches, staring at the toilet. He had made it to the bathroom, to the toilet, tossed his cookies, then realized the lid was down. At 0300 I got to take a nice, hot shower and head back to bed. Thagg wrote:

I scooped him up, plunked him down in the Pack-n-Play and spent an hour and a half wrestling with the tangle of cables necessary to connect the various components to one another. The end result: Kyle will not be able to reach the Xbox until he is able to stand; the remaining components will remain out of his range until he is five or six years old.

In my experience, it would have been easier both short and long term to simply train the boy not to touch.

Thagg wrote:

There was an unfortunate incident involving rather a lot of vomit and my cornflower-blue shirt last week.

You too?

Sunday night, 0200 I awoke to something in the bathroom. It was our Middlest Broodling, on his haunches, staring at the toilet. He had made it to the bathroom, to the toilet, tossed his cookies, then realized the lid was down.

At 0300 I got to take a nice, hot shower and head back to bed.

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