Rebecca let the boys try to take a nap together. She told them they had fifteen minutes to fall asleep. If they weren't asleep, the experiment was over. She overheard...
Joshua - "When I tickle you, don't giggle."
We visited Rebecca's grandmother in Columbus, Georgia. She lives in a retirement center. We ate lunch in a room full of people who probably don't watch a lot of PBS Kids. Andrew was dressed as Super Why and doing a little more screaming than the Bistro was accustomed to. I was walking him out of the room when an elderly gentlemen addressed him.
Elderly Man - "Well hello, Batman."
Andrew screaming over my shoulder - "I'M NOT BATMAN!!!"
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I really don't get how you think it's funny that your children are so blatantly disrespectful to you and Rebecca and other people (including each other). Your laughing at it will only encourage such behavior and cause many more (worse) future problems.
thanks for caring enough to say something.
I think your children are pretty typical three and four-year-olds in their behavior and I find them irresistibly adorable. I love your posts about the things they say and a lot of friends (who don't even know you) have told me they love reading about your conversations with Joshua and Andrew. Keep the laughs coming! I think you're doing a wonderful job as parents.
Grandma Shari
Anonymous, you've got to be kidding, right??? You don't know these kids or you are kidding, it's one of the two. So there.
Signed, "Chippy in Brentwood" Karen A. Fentress
thanks, chippy.
Maybe I shouldn't say what I'm thinking privately, but that has never stopped me before. My first thought was that Anonymous is someone who doesn't like you and saw an opportunity to take a public shot. Because if a friend really thought you were encouraging disrespect in your young children, surely they would say something to you privately and without concealing their identity. Such a remark should never be made anonymously, in my opinion.
As the grandma who is very proud of these two little boys (and thinks they are blessed with wonderful parents), I just want to add two more comments.
First, children of this age are pretty typically "bi-polar" in their behavior. They can be the most angelic little beings and they can be the most ferocious of monsters. Obviously, you were carrying Andrew out of the room and he was about to receive discipline. But that doesn't mean there was no humor to be found in the situation. And the fact that you share the humor is no indication that you and Rebecca fail to properly discipline your kids.
Go Vikings.
hopefully it is a friend who will approach me personally.
thanks for feeling protective, mom.
joshua just says he wants brett favre to win, so obviously, i'm a great dad.
Anonymous is being a petty, judgmental, cowardly jackass.
He or she should say that to your face, or at least put their name on their comment. Then at least they would just be petty and judgmental.
dude. anonymous. really?! grow a pair.
until then, keep rocking danny. you're kids rock. anonymous probably lives alone because cats dont even like him.
Go Shari! (Though I have to admit, you showed more restraint than I think my mother would in this situation)
Hell hath no fury like a Nana (or Grandma as I believe those little cuties call you) scorned.
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