Let's hear how great your kids are.

[Ellen Forradalom]

Even if they have a behavior problem or three. (Who doesn't?)

This weekend my boy cut out paper snowflakes, painted two watercolors in his painting journal, assembled projects from his electronics kit, practiced his knitting, watched a Spanish program with me, baked cookies with his dad, read a few chapters from his book, and played Toontown. Oh, yes, and he and his friend saved with world.

Oh yeah, I'm treasuring it while it lasts.

[JVS]

1. I have no kids, and I get along with them just fine

no fights at all

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Something to be said for that

You enjoy a certain control of your existence that I will never again know.

[leftofthedial]

2. my daughters are the best!

funny, smart, sweet, great students, possessed of both wide and deep interests, creative . . .

I wish I could find a woman my age with half their talents and anything remotely as loveable as their personalities.

I miss them so much when they are with their mom or away at school.

[wiggs]

22. How old are they leftie? How lucky we are to have daughters! nt

[wiggs]

23. I've got two wonderful daughters

...they're studying for finals now (both seniors in HS), both great students, athletic, creative, respectful, well behaved but rebellious enough too, interested in graphic design or marine ecology or psychology.

They'll hit the malls as enthusiastically as anyone, but can also be seen with bruises and scabs from sports. They'll watch Grey's Anatomy with their girlfriends, but they'll play poker and watch UFC with other friends. They're unabashed dems who will argue issues with conservative schoolmates.

I'll miss them terribly when they're gone next year to school.

[leftofthedial]

28. 13 and 18

:-)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. That is so sweet Ellen Forradalom. It put a smile on my face :)

I don't have children yet but I really would like to settle down soon and have some. Its been on my mind a lot lately ...

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. You'll be a great mom

Whoever's the dad will be a privileged man.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. Awwwwwwwww thank you :)

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time :blush:

[Maddy McCall]

4. Let's see.

My kid's 13 now.

Some of the things he does that consistently make me beam:

1) Always takes his cap off when we enter a restaurant, because his grandfather told him that's good manners.

2) When we are at the grocery store, he offers to take out groceries for elderly people who look like they need a little help.

3) Holds the door open for men and women.

4) When I had a stomach virus last week, he called his grandmother to take him to the store, and then he came back with 7-Up and crushed ice, because he knows that that always makes me feel better. He paid for it with his money.

He's a good kid. I don't know why I was blessed with him.

:loveya:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

16. Your goodness carried on through him and that is why you are blessed :)

[Maddy McCall]

17. I think very highly of you, too, CP.

:hug:

:loveya:

[TOhioLiberal]

5. I don't have kids anymore...

They are men...I posted about them:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6117837&mesg_id=6117837

[crim son]

6. I had a headache this afternoon. My two boys brought

me hot tea and then combed my hair and kissed my face until I felt better. It worked. Then tonight my daughter told me that I was the best mother in the world, and that she always feels better when she talks to me. And she's fifteen! I love, love, love my weaselish, ratfink, rotten, shabbily attired, half-grown baby girl and boys. I'm the most fortunate mother in the world.

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Oh, I baked bread last week

and got the ultimate endorsement: "You're a good cooker, Mom!" (said with mouth full of hot bread and butter.)

[crim son]

13. That's so cute.

Tonight I made a meal my seven-yr-old doesn't care for: yellow split pea soup with hot chilis & coconut milk. Anyhow, my boy came into the kitchen while I was cooking and asked what was for dinner. I told him that I was sorry but because I wasn't feeling well it was going to be the soup he didn't like. He replied, "That's okay Mom. Sometimes I like that soup. Sometimes I even feel like eating it and tonight is one of those nights."

He didn't eat it. :)

[Control-Z]

7. Really great

I get terrible migraines and got one Friday night. My 13 year old daughter took care of me until a few hours ago when it finally improved. She brought me ice bags and massaged my neck. She held my hair while I vomited. She kept track of the meds I took. She listened to me cry.

Yeah, she's really great.

[Kali]

8. Whithout being asked, he boys went and got a load of deadwood for the fireplace today

and the younger did the dishes (:wow:) the girl? well she took less than a full one hour shower, so I guess I should be grateful eh?

Yesterday the oldest did the dishes (he actually does them fairly often) and they have been doing their feeding chores without reminder for a while now. I have also been promised two (count 'em - TWO) post holes (rail road tie, corral holes, not wimpy garden fence posts here) for tomorrow. I wonder what they want? or destroyed???

[Maddy McCall]

18. Good kids.

:thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

9. My daughter, after a few troubling years, has turned into a wonderful

young woman. (The "troubling years" didn't involve anything really bad, but they were a bit challenging for me and her stepdad).

She has a great work ethic, is going to college, is getting married, and it one of the brightest, most loving, caring people I know. And she's got a wicked sense of humor. :evilgrin:

I :loveya: her so much!!!! :bounce: :bounce:

[Maddy McCall]

19. Her engagement photos were great.

She and her future hubby are a good lookin' pair.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

25. Thanks, Maddy.

They are good lookin'! :hi:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

20. That is so beautiful.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Thanks, CP

:hi:

[S n o w b a l l]

14. What??? Behavior problems???

:spank: :spank: :spank:

Bad, bad, bad parent!!
:D :hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

38. I am THERE

and doing some PARENTING. Why,I am even SITTING ON HIM so he can HARDLY MOVE, yet he gets into trouble. Go figure.
:hi:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

21. He is not my child , he is my cousin's son but I love him so much so I will talk about him

BabyCousinCousinCarolinaPeridot will be 7 months old in a couple of days and its amazing to watch him. He is such a ladies man! He will grab your face and turn it so he can kiss you LOL. It does'nt matter if its on your lips or not - he wants to show his affection. He loves music , sounds anything that is audio - I am silly so I love to make noises with my mouth and he imitates them. Any time that he sees me he gets my attention by making the sounds that I taught him to make. He loves music , just like I do. He gets a kick out of anything that makes music - I sing to him only when no one else is around . One time I was singing to him trying to put him to sleep and I looked down at him and he had the biggest grin on his face - I just hugged him. I love watching him in his activity centers (he has so many of them because everyone cares for him so much) and when he is deep into his playing time , he is all into his toys and nothing else. I have long hair that I often keep braided (so that its wavy) and he loves to pull on my braids rather than hold on to my shirt when I carry him. And he thinks that he can stand up on his on. He stands up on the couch beside you like he is Mr.Big Man lol. I treasure him when he is small because I know in about 16 years he is going to be too cool to hang around me Big Cousin CarolinaPeridot.

[Maddy McCall]

24. Awwwww....

Where is the photo?

He sounds like a great baby. You are in for more love than you can imagine. The more he grows, the more his love for you will grow, as will his ability to demonstrate it.

I miss those years with my son.

When he's sixteen, I bet he'll be proud to call you Big Cuz.

:)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

27. When he is 16 he is going to be bigger than I am LOL

and I am 25 years and one month older than him. I don't feel comfortable posting any pictures of him on the internet because he is not my child.He looks very cherubic LOL :)

[dEMOK]

29. I have guitar students,,,

...many of whom are astounding kids.

My kids are friggin' brilliant!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

30. Don't ask my mom about me.

:P

I keep her on her toes. She MUST be kept so. :P

Though--oh fuck!--she drives me fucking, FUCKING crazy. EEEAARRGH! EEEARGGHH!

:evilgrin:

[mzteris]

31. my older son

13 yo - made his big magic debut this weekend at a local children's festival. He was sooooooo nervous. He had two shows; he had one "mistake" in the first show - but he covered nicely and kept going. I almost fainted during his first show as I almost forgot to breathe!

A couple of minutes into the 2nd show, he just relaxed and everything went pretty well. You could see it on his face he was having a good time. He also did close up magic at a booth between shows, too. He's had a lot more experience doing that - so he just loved it. He felt - looked - like a "real magician!"

Then - he had a dance rehearsal at 3:00 that we were running late for, but when were leaving the festival to get there - a little 2 yo girl in the lobby was having a huge meltdown because she didn't want to leave. Her Mom was trying to get her (and the baby in the stroller) into the elevator without much luck. My son stopped, did a couple of magical appearances (coin in her ear thing) and she broke out smiling and happily got on the elevator with her mom....



My younger son (8) 'auditioned' for a local tv show yesterday at the festival, too. The exec. producer really liked him, so we'll see if anything comes of it. (Though how we'll fit that into our insane schedule I'll never know.)

They're both pretty cool kids, even though they drive me CRAZY sometimes!

[MissMillie]

32. Wow... if you wanted to hear this from me, you picked the wrong year

I don't have much nice to say about my son these days.

[Ellen Forradalom]

35. Hope it gets better soon!

Isn't it a pain that they're autonomous individuals? Sheesh.

[Burma Jones]

33. My Kids are 8, 6 and 6 months, and they're wonderful.......

My Son is Eight. He was thought to possibly be Autistic at age 2, we started therapy then. He is no longer considered to be on the spectrum. I believe that many, if not most, early diagnoses of Autism are precautionary - the speech and occupational therapy helped immensely, but what was more important was that it helped his Mom and I deal much better with his tantrums and other very frustrating aspects of raising a child with communication disorders. Anyway, he is a kind child - usually - there is some sibling rivalry with his 6 year old sister, and plays the piano and guitar and is working toward his Black Belt (in a program geared toward pre-pubescents) he is about 9 months away from his first degree black belt. He is adored by our baby, she beams when he talks to her, and he is gentle and kind to other kids. He is the class clown in the third grade, he also has not missed a math or spelling question on any quiz or test this year. He helps out without asking much of the time.


My Daughter is 6. She, right now, is jealous of the baby. She does have a way of succinctly saying wise things, an example: I was angry about a work related phone call I received at home, my Daughter asked whether I was angry, I told her yes and explained that it was about work and nothing at home, to which she replied: "anger is like crystals growing in your heart." She makes these sort of observations often. She was born shortly before our son started the therapy for his language delay. When our daughter was about two, our son's speech therapist asked us whether it would be permissible for her to film interactions with our daughter for use in her Child Psych classes at Queens College. We gave her permission, and our daughter became the role model for normal child development for Psych students.... She is also working for her Black Belt. She is obsessed with being a Cheerleader, which strikes my Wife as odd - she blames me because I played football and my Niece was a Cheerleader in HS.


My 6 month old daughter is fussy when she needs to be, very observant of what goes on around her and is generally a joy to have around.

[reyd reid reed]

34. My kids:

#1 son spent the weekend up in Denver with his daughter. He's dealing with everything that she's going through with composure and strength and it occurred to me last week -- he's gone from the little boy with big, beautiful eyes and a gentle sound, to a man. And one that I'm proud of.

#2 son spent all of yesterday afternoon at the grocery store, selling raffle tickets for the Youth Symphony. He and his friends played for hours and raised about 800.00, I think. It's a fundraiser for this summer's tour. They're going to Japan for 11 days.

Girly-poo spent the weekend cleaning...actually cleaning and doing it without argument. Minimal results but at this point, I appreciate the effort. Watched a movie with the rest of us and started to knit a cap for #1 son's daughter. She practiced her violin and, between her upstairs and #2 son practicing downstairs, the house was filled with music.

#3 son spent his weekend drawing and playing video games and skateboarding and practicing.

#4 son played video games and reading and he cooked dinner on Friday night and then made pancakes yesterday morning.

No blood was spilled and the arguments were kept to a minimum. It was a very pleasant weekend.

[dropkickpa]

36. Dropkid has been great this week

We've both been laid low with some bug (she obviously feels a zillion times better than me even when sick, little stinker). I've been pretty much living on 1-2 hours of sleep because of the horrid coughing fits, so I've been sleeping in. She has gotten up each morning, fixed herself something to eat for breakfast (cereal bar, toast, poptarts), let the dog out and fed her, fed the guinea pigs (3) and entertained herself so I could sleep. She is 6 years old!! I've lost my voice, and, because of that, she seems to have suspended her "mom-deafness", she actually responds :wow: when I croak for her across the house when usually I have to blow an airhorn to get her to respond.

She regularly comes out with things like "Even when I'm a grown up I'll love you forever because you're the best mommy!", which just make my day.

She made a huge effort and cleaned the pigsty (AKA her room) without prompting!!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

37. wow

too cool.