Well. It's official. I knew this day would come, but I didn't expect it quite so early... yep...
Yesterday Hannah was smashing her baby brother's fingers in a cupboard door, and when mom told her to stop, she threw herself onto the ground, and exclaimed, "Mom! You're ruining my life." She then stormed upstairs to her room and slammed her door.
Hannah is still only five years old.
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Youngun: When I become an adult, I'm going to marry my husband! HSR: Atta girl! Youngun: And then I'll have my children! HSR: (clapping) That'll be fun! What a cool plan! Youngun: And then I'll become an engineer, and make trucks that cost one dollar! HSR: (beside self with pride) You can do it! I know you can! Youngun: And my husband will watch the kids!
HSR: (dead silence for a moment) Luigi follow only the Ferraris.
Where does any kid learn these phrases? That's the 64 dollar question. Our oldest daughter's first sentence was "I don't THINK so." She was between 2 and 3. And Ray, didn't you know that all mothers everywhere ruin their daughter's lives? Your daughter just caught on early! That's what us mothers were put on this earth to do, is ruin their children's lives. Sorry, but it's inevitable.
I'm actually quite proud of my wife for her achievement. And coincidentally, we have gotten the "I hate you!" thing since she was two... so yeah, that's old news. :)
--Ray
PS> As for where she got it, that's a good question and we've been wondering that too. I wouldn't be surprised if she just figured it out, but her older sisters have never said this sort of thing before... Hannah's got a gift...
-- Edited by rayb at 18:00, 2007-08-13
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
My 5-year-old finally told me that I'm not a good mom, and I have lots of rules that aren't fair. Took her long enough. I was starting to wonder what I was doing wrong.
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
My newly-turned 5yo was philosophizing in the car a couple days ago sort of like this--
"You have a brain and I have a brain. I want to do what I want to do, but you want me to do what you want me to do. But that's not right, because I change myself, but you are changing me into doing what you want me to do. That's not right."
It really had her going.
Then lately she'll end everything with e-i-e-i-o, as in, "You're not the best mommy in the world... e-i-e-i-o..."
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
I remember thinking myself of the concept of death. I was 5 or under, because we were in our first house. I thought, There's no way I will ever cease to exist. Even when I die, there's no way I'll just stop existing... It was really obvious to me at the time.
And I remember pinching the skin on my forearm and repeating to myself, "This is so weird. This is so weird," etc... Course, this was back in the days when I thought I was Jesus.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Hmmm, there was a guy who would frequent the pancake house where I worked in the olden days who thought he was an actual vampire. But he did a lot of drugs.
I'm guessing that wasn't the issue when you were 5, Coco?
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
The good news is that none of the essential stuff I learned working there couldn't be learned elsewhere. There's still hope for you and you don't even have to become a busboy, pie maker, prep cook, line cook, host, night manager or server at a pancake house. (I was never a dishwasher, though. I do know the dish soap can eat a hole in your shoes, but doesn't get the lipstick off coffee cups.)
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
There are so many things I've missed in life by not working at a Pancake House...
I'm more of a Waffle House Guy. I always wanted to eat at Der Waffle House from the Dead Like Me series that had the corny Bavarian music playing in the background. The same waffle house was also used in a couple episodes of Stargate.
