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Post by ronmiller on Jan 27, 2020 16:36:10 GMT
Rats! By not checking "General Discussion" I've been missing out on a lot of great conversations!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 16:44:00 GMT
And a disagreement too Ron.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 27, 2020 22:36:00 GMT
Larika,
If you think that was a disagreement, you should listen in when it's time for our 3.5-y.-o. to go to bed when she's about to drop but refusing to concede to sleep, now that's a disagreement. That child will litigate her case. When she's grown I pity the man who underestimates her spine and mettle.
Ron,
It can get interesting.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 28, 2020 1:35:39 GMT
If you think that was a disagreement, you should listen in when it's time for our 3.5-y.-o. to go to bed
HAHAHAHAHA!!!  I sure remember that kind of action. I know your pain, Sphinx!
Now I get to watch my kids get their paybacks! Hee hee! 
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Post by hulsey on Jan 28, 2020 8:41:41 GMT
That's why I never get involved with politics or religion on social media andd forums. I bite my tongue and avoid at all costs.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 9:17:10 GMT
I believe it was Max Bygraves who used to say "Good idea ___Son"--- so I say "Good idea hulsey".
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 28, 2020 13:30:39 GMT
If you think that was a disagreement, you should listen in when it's time for our 3.5-y.-o. to go to bed
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I sure remember that kind of action. I know your pain, Sphinx!
Now I get to watch my kids get their paybacks! Hee hee!
I've got three granddaughters, and the odds of me ever seeing them are lower than my odds of being struck by lightning.
My odds of living long enough to see grandchildren from my youngest children are pretty slim.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 13:52:08 GMT
I'm afraid I too will probably not see any granchildren. I have a very young grandchild. (My son married late in life and he and his wife have just one child.) My friends not only have grandchildren but great granchildren. Ah well my children are happy and well adjusted. My son is doing very well in California and my daughter is teaching English to Spanish children in Spain. My husband and I brought 2 great kids into this world and now a lovely grandchild. I think I would appreciate the little one more if I were younger and had more energy. A few years ago I looked after her for a week while her parents went to work and I was completely and utterly exhausted. It must be hard for you Sphinx-Cameron with your tiny ones, but you are much younger than me! Everwhere I go I seem to be the oldest person except in my writing group where our host is 95 years old, much older than me.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 28, 2020 14:14:09 GMT
That's why I never get involved with politics or religion on social media andd forums. I bite my tongue and avoid at all costs. Whether internet or real life there is a long list of topics that can cause heated dissent, with politics and religion being at the top. Gender, sex, how many kids you do or don't have, how you raise your kids if any, income / income inequality, where you live, how you live, employment, transportation, the language you speak, ad nauseum. People have even been murdered over virtual weapons in fantasy games.
My spouse told me years ago about one of her younger sisters getting nasty / argumentative about her [my spouse] looking at a particular image on the internet, because the sister saw it first and nobody else in the house was supposed to look at it and take any joy from it.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 28, 2020 14:19:42 GMT
I'm afraid I too will probably not see any granchildren. I have a very young grandchild. (My son married late in life and he and his wife have just one child.) My friends not only have grandchildren but great granchildren. Ah well my children are happy and well adjusted. My son is doing very well in California and my daughter is teaching English to Spanish children in Spain. My husband and I brought 2 great kids into this world and now a lovely grandchild. I think I would appreciate the little one more if I were younger and had more energy. A few years ago I looked after her for a week while her parents went to work and I was completely and utterly exhausted. It must be hard for you Sphinx-Cameron with your tiny ones, but you are much younger than me! Everwhere I go I seem to be the oldest person except in my writing group where our host is 95 years old, much older than me. My oldest brother and his wife are hoping their one daughter will have a child before it's biologically too late. Every time I mention he could borrow my kids for a couple weeks to get a taste of what grandchildren are like there's a gap of a few months where I don't hear from him. Then again he hears our kids in the background of the occasional phone call so perhaps he's decided discretion is the better part of valor.
Age is a relative thing, if my parents were living my father would be 101 and my mother 89, and neither would be able to keep up with the crew. One of my aunts was helping out with great-great-grandchildren up into her 90s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 14:40:32 GMT
Every time I mention he could borrow my kids for a couple weeks to get a taste of what grandchildren are like there's a gap of a few months where I don't hear from him.
"I'll take a tomato sandwich. Actually, on second thought, I'll have the soup." He could be having second thoughts, but encourage him to have a grandchild. Think of all the extra love you get from your little ones.
Gosh Sphinx-Cameron you talk as though you are really old your Mum was only a few years older than me. Now I'm OLD.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 28, 2020 14:56:55 GMT
Every time I mention he could borrow my kids for a couple weeks to get a taste of what grandchildren are like there's a gap of a few months where I don't hear from him."I'll take a tomato sandwich. Actually, on second thought, I'll have the soup." He could be having second thoughts, but encourage him to have a grandchild. Think of all the extra love you get from your little ones.
Gosh Sphinx-Cameron you talk as though you are really old your Mum was only a few years older than me. Now I'm OLD.
It's more a case of he and his wife only had one child, and the thought of juggling three precocious children for a couple weeks can be overwhelming to someone whose only child has been out of the house for roughly two decades.
Each of Their Graces were essentially walking by eight months of age, though the oldest was running before she slowed down to walk at nine months of age. By two-years-old each of them have been mistaken for three-to-four-year-olds.
Perhaps intimidating is the word that describes them best.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 15:19:13 GMT
Larika, you are young. You sound young, you write young, your ideas are young. Please don't say you're old.
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 28, 2020 16:52:08 GMT
After a certain point, age is just a chronological thing. Your true age is what you decide it to be. I think that the people who age the fastest are the ones who decide, "Well, I am just too old to do this any more" or "I'm at an age I shouldn't do these things." You may not be able to help what goes on physically at time progresses but there is no reason for your brain to get old. One of my best friends passed away a few years ago at 98...and up until the last moment he was firing on all cylinders intellectually. Inside his head, he still had all of the curiosity and interest and enthusiasm about the world he possessed when he was 18.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 28, 2020 19:56:26 GMT
Ron,
Years ago my mother went to a funeral and took a friend of mine along. At the funeral my friend encountered a great-aunt of mine who was dressed in a pantsuit, aged 100+. She asked my friend if my mother was 'still collecting all that junk she thinks is worth money'. The great-aunt went on to say 'that girl will never change'. [My mother had collected some stuff that held value, the majority was junk per my oldest brother.]
True age as you noted [apart from physical changes or cerebral accidents] is relative and often a personal choice, as evidenced by a neighbor of mine [slightly younger than I am] who is exhausted every time his grandchildren visit for a few days.
Personally I'm determined to try to outlive both my kids and the turkey vultures as long as I can.
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I sure remember that kind of action. I know your pain, Sphinx!
