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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 10:07:42 GMT
I awake very, very early and often my grandchild in California, chats with me via messenger's video. Today she wanted to show me how she is taking care of her parents, especially her exausted mother who is a full time working nurse. My daughter-in-law has to do a lot of walking in her job and her legs ache. Lana carefully oiled each leg and then meticulously brushed the oil into her mum's skin. She did that for a long time as we chatted. Then she massaged her Mum's legs before doing the same to her back. Next she massaged her father. I was so impressed with this caring young girl. (She is only 11 years old) Were any of you as caring when you were 11? I know I wasn't. In fact I used to worry my mother a lot with my gallivanting. I hope everyone is keeping safe and no one in your country is doing what this young boy did here in Scotland. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boy-7-calls-police-on-mother-to-complain-about-lockdown-a4400286.html
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 3, 2020 10:34:54 GMT
I might have done the foot and calf massage thing at a slightly older age, but never for my parents. I might have been as caring if allowed, but essentially growing up in what amounted to a shark tank there really wasn't an opportunity to do so and quite frankly not much reason.
The fact that your granddaughter does show she cares is indicative of a healthy upbringing as well as good parenting.
As for the kid in Scotland, I haven't seen a news story about that happening here yet. But there are often enough other news stories of people calling emergency services to complain about the most ridiculous things, whether the drunk who was angry because he couldn't walk through the drive-through to order tacos or the dufus who called to complain someone hadn't paid him for the weed he was selling. There was one many years ago about the taxpayer who called the police because sanitation picked up an animal carcass without picking up the maggots, with the request that police either force the city employee to go back and pick up the fly larvae or they [the police] do it themselves.
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 3, 2020 11:06:25 GMT
What a wonderful kid!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 15:40:15 GMT
but essentially growing up in what amounted to a shark tank there really wasn't an opportunity to do so and quite frankly not much reason.
Sphinz- Cameron, a very good friend of mine had a similar experience to yours growing up, yet she is a brilliant mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I went to her 80th Birthday last year and all her family were there honouring her. You too, from what I've gleaned from your posts, are a great husband and father. Both of you are so lucky. When you are brought up in a "shark tank" you could so easy behave in a similar way with your chidren, or even worse become a murderer or become involved in the criminal world. You both went the other way and bcame loving parents.
I often wondered too about another friend of mine who held high office in the Salvation Army. Yet she told me some horrific stories of her home life. While she was the leader in our local Salvation Army church she helped so many people and was admired by many.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 3, 2020 15:50:51 GMT
Lady Elizabeth,
I know what I have inside me, and it only gets unleashed under certain circumstances. I'm afraid seeing a child being whipped tends to get on my last nerve, because I've felt the lash applied by someone who knew exactly what they were doing.
My replacements will never experience what I, and in her own way my spouse, endured while growing up.
Our kids will never doubt we loved them later in their lives, which is a lot more than the spouse and I can say about our respective sets of parents.
Your children and grandchildren have all been blessed.
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 3, 2020 16:41:12 GMT
Out daughter has been pretty amazing. While such a pill at times I'd more than once wanted to take her by the ears and pound her head against a wall, she has turned out pretty well. When we were putting her through college she came to us sometime during her first year and said, "This is costing you too much." She dropped out and became a runway and print model. After saving enough money, she quit and paid her tuition herself until she graduated.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 3, 2020 16:47:37 GMT
Most kids can be pills, and it sounds like yours did turn out wonderfully.
Having just had half the battle of giving my two-year-old a buzz cut. Since he fights brush and comb pretty successfully, time for a big clipper as the mustache clipper bogged down.
Hard to fight a three foot tall demon intent on keeping his hair when you can't do it quick. Glad he fell asleep after he escaped, I'm worn out.
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 3, 2020 17:05:25 GMT
Thank goodness I never had to even try to cut Trish's hair. Someone would have come out bloody and it probably would have been me.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 3, 2020 18:28:19 GMT
Not my idea of fun times either. When the kid punched me where he did, he let me know he had good aim.
Since he's taller and stronger than the average, I got a nice heavy-duty clipper so I can get it done without me getting hurt any worse.
I'm not a barber but buzzing the head is pretty quick.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 4, 2020 15:03:05 GMT
Not my idea of fun times either. When the kid punched me where he did, he let me know he had good aim. Since he's taller and stronger than the average, I got a nice heavy-duty clipper so I can get it done without me getting hurt any worse. I'm not a barber but buzzing the head is pretty quick. Yeah, even though he was fighting the process, about two minutes with a good clipper was all it took.
He's now watching a show, giving me dirty looks if it looks like I'm going to get close.
In two weeks, maybe it will have grown enough to use a #0 guard to even out the rough patches.
Good think that as a two-year-old he can't call the police to report me for giving him a bad haircut.
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