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lspencer534
01-15-2014, 8:13pm
Mess Test: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all Summer.

Toy Test: Obtain a 55-gallon drum of Legos. If Legos are not available, you can substitute roofing nails. Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the kitchen. Do not scream (this could wake the child at night).

Grocery Store Test: Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop the grocery store. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.

Dressing Test: Obtain one large, unhappy, live octupus (they turn bright red when they are unhappy). Stuff into a small net bag making sure all arms stay inside.

Feeding Test: Fill a large plastic jug halfway with water. Suspend from ceiling with a stout cord. Start the jug swinging. Now try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor.

Night Test: Prepare by obtaining a small bag and filling it with 8-12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 8:00 p.m. begin to hum and waltz with the bag until 9:00 p.m. Lay down the bag and set your alarm for 10:00 p.m. Get up, pick up the bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen more and sing these too until 4:00 a.m. Set alarm for 5:00 a.m. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

Wife's Physical Test: Obtain a large beanbag chair and attach it to the front of your clothes. Leave it there for 9 months. Now remove ten of the beans.

Final Assignment: Find a couple who already have a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their disclipine, patience, tolerance, toilet training, and child's table manners. Suggest many ways they can improve. Emphasize that they should never let their child run wild. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you have all the answers.

99 pewtercoupe
01-15-2014, 8:21pm
And people ask me why we have cats instead of kids. :lol:

DAB
01-15-2014, 8:23pm
And all those fun toys you wanted? Forget about them.

simpleman68
01-15-2014, 8:33pm
:lol: Funny stuff but much of that sheit is overplayed in fun.

On the other hand, I've seen a few parents that had little ones that were almost impossible to manage.

I've got 2 girls and only 60% done with the oldest, but I wouldn't trade the experience and love for anything in this world.

Tonight I was dancing with my 1 year old while Mom was out with a friend.
I picked her up and grooved to some Van Morrison. Not much more beautiful than that in my world. :angel:
Scott

lspencer534
01-15-2014, 8:40pm
:lol: Funny stuff but much of that sheit is overplayed in fun.

On the other hand, I've seen a few parents that had little ones that were almost impossible to manage.

I've got 2 girls and only 60% done with the oldest, but I wouldn't trade the experience and love for anything in this world.

Tonight I was dancing with my 1 year old while Mom was out with a friend.
I picked her up and grooved to some Van Morrison. Not much more beautiful than that in my world. :angel:
Scott

Of course it's overplayed (mostly) because none of us would trade our child-rearing experiences for anything in the world. My daughter is 26-years-old now, but I still see her as "Squirt"...my little girl.

Mirroredshades
01-15-2014, 8:52pm
Have $50 in your pocket for the first time in six months and wonder what to buy of the 28 things you have been living without. And then notice that your kids toes are hanging out of their sneakers. And then try to explain to them why they can't have the $150 ones like every other kid in school.

lspencer534
01-15-2014, 9:00pm
Have $50 in your pocket for the first time in six months and wonder what to buy of the 28 things you have been living without. And then notice that your kids toes are hanging out of their sneakers. And then try to explain to them why they can't have the $150 ones like every other kid in school.

Been there...like every parent. You feel like the most worthless, poorest heel in the world. But you can only do what you can afford.

...Whitepower...
01-15-2014, 9:15pm
My wife asked me after we first got married when i thought i would be ready to have kids. My response was, if you're gonna wait for me to be ready you're never gonna have kids.:D

She pulled the goalie shortly their after..

DukeAllen
01-15-2014, 9:21pm
How I knew we were ready
http://universalhealthcarela.com/wp-content/uploads/photos-positive-pregnancy-test.jpg

And I wouldn't trade my little buddy for the world. :seasix:

MrPeabody
01-15-2014, 9:25pm
Been there...like every parent. You feel like the most worthless, poorest heel in the world. But you can only do what you can afford.

They'll remember being loved long after they have forgotten the price of sneakers.

simpleman68
01-15-2014, 9:33pm
They'll remember being loved long after they have forgotten the price of sneakers.

Yeah man :yesnod: aptly said.
Scott

Skia
01-15-2014, 10:29pm
My girls were the biggest pains in the azz that there ever was. I wouldn't take anything for the memories I have of those times. Now that they are on their on I miss them terribly

Admiral Blue
01-15-2014, 11:27pm
She pulled the goalie

THAT is hilarious! :cert:

Sea Six
01-16-2014, 2:59am
I am so glad I never had kids.


:hurray:

DukeAllen
01-16-2014, 8:18am
I am so glad I never had kids.


:hurray:

Who's going to change your depends a few years down the road? :lol:

DropTheTop
01-16-2014, 8:52am
I am so glad I never had kids.


:hurray:

So are we. :hurray: :dance:



Amen brothers! :cert:

sanchez
01-16-2014, 9:03am
I am so glad I never had kids.


:hurray:

So are we. :rofl:

Mirroredshades
01-16-2014, 9:20am
So are we. :rofl:

:withstupid:

Says the two guys with 30,000 posts.

:funniest:

Sea Six
01-16-2014, 9:55am
:funny: