Hi there,
Each week, I give my boys some money on Friday arvo to put in the ‘blue box’ (a charity box).
This Friday past, Phillip was counting the money…
Phillip: “5c, 10c, 1 million”
Me: I said to Phillip whilst spying the 10c piece I’d given him, “One Million [?], would you like One Million dollars?”
Phillip: “Yes, Mummy give me 1 million dollars and Daddy give me 1 million dollars and Simon give me 1 million dollars…(pause) and I give Simon one million dollars”
Michael: “Will you give Daddy 1 Million dollars?”
Phillip: “No Daddy, it’s for Phillip and Simon’s future”My lesson:
You’d be surprised what children pick up when you are talking around them and you don’t think they can understand …
By the by… Phillip did put the money into the charity box…and Simon tasted his 5c coin first and found it not to his liking, so he put it in the box too.
From the mouths of babes (literally) [
][][]Tell me about your experiences with your children!
Cheers
Sooshie []“small steps make the journey” (SAS)
Sooshie….just 1 story!.. haha [
]Kids can be too honest sometimes.. I went to bunnings (oh hail bunnings) to get 10 metres of telephone cable, 10 should cover it. So my 2 girls and I get to bunnings (oh hail bunnings) and im measuring out 10 metres using the ruler there.. any way “as you do” you actually get say 12 metres to make sure its enough. I get to the counter to pay for it.. how much im asked, “10 metres i reply”… then my eldest shouts out “NO it was 12 metres, I was counting too !!!…”… so with a sideways glare, I paid for the 12 metres …. Argh!.[
]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)..oh [
]And dont you just hate “doing a sneaky” in the shopping centre.. just to hear your daughter yell out in her LOUD voice.. “Daddy Farted !! Ewwww” [
]Sorry for using the “F” word in this public forum.
..Ive cleared the air now..[]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)My girls are addicted to “feeding the dog” at Safeway. We can not go shopping there without dropping loose change into the Blind Dogs Assoc money box.
They know where the money goes…so they are also moving towards buying presents for kids on KMarts Wishing Tree and stuff like that. Im proud of them both []As for embarrassing….my eldest, when she was about 2..while waiting in a queue, walked behind me..lifted up my (very long) skirt…and yelling PEEKABOO!! I SEE YOUR RED UNDIES!! There were about 8 very amused shoppers..and one VERY embarrassed mother. Needless to say….I felt the urge to stop waiting in THAT queue.LOL
~ Heaven doesnt want me and Hell is afraid I will take over! ~ :þ
Hi there,
ROFL, kidz…just got to love them…
Keep the stories coming []Cheers
Sooshie []“small steps make the journey” (SAS)
hi all,
picked up my son (5yrs)from school the other day and on the way home he asked what were we going to do when we got home, i had several suggestions including him helping me get dinner ready, drawing a picture for his ‘poppy’, playing a game (educational-dr suess “maths,coulors,storiesetc” in a fun format) all to which he replied in the negative.
“Do whatever you want then” said i,
“whatever i want” he quiered looking at me,
“can i smash the house up” he asked []i nearly drove of the road i laughed that much, telling him “no-he could not smash the house up”
kids huh [:0)]“The man that thinks at 5o as he did when he was 20 has wasted 30 years of his life”
OMG,
I dont have kids, (yet)
but that last one about smashing up the house, made me laugh rather hard.
Lucky for you he didnt just go off and do whatever he wanted in the other room when you got home [
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..Ive cleared the air now..[]Arty it dosn’t sound like the air is clear [
]well on the weekend my friend and I decided to wash our cars as next week water restrictions are starting.
My 5 yr old son said that he will help if we pay him $1 so we said ok anyway my friend gave him the $1 then my son ran off, I asked him where he is going and he said that he had finished look and he showed me the $1I started teaching my eldest son about money by asking him to read a book (a simple one) to his younger brother and I would pay him for the service at 10c a book, he earns money which he puts in a big box to save up for a gameboy and he is reading so I guess its a win / win.
Cam.
When one of my boys was 3 I went shopping with him at a clothes shop. As I had his younger brother in a stroller I let him walk. Well he was in one of his moods and decided he’d play hide and seek amongst the clothes racks.
Fun for him – Not much fun for Mum!When I finally managed to get hold of his arm and pull him out from the clothes, He yells…
“Mummy don’t break my bones!”
The looks on the other customers’ faces was priceless. Of course, I was bright red and couldn’t get out fast enough!!
Be careful not step on the flowers when you’re looking at the stars
We were in a toilet cubicle at a busy shopping centre and my daughter then three asked at the top of her lungs” Mummy why are you wearing a nappy aren’t you potty trained yet?” You should have heard the sniggers from that one!
Hi there,
Love the stories… Remind me why we have children???
Phillip used to like climbing under the cubicles (hard to be quick, catching a 2 year old whilst incapacitated). He gave one older lady quite a fright when he slid under her door and said ‘Boo’.
I couldn’t even stick my head or arms out to catch him []
My son’s latest is to give me driving directions from his booster seat in the back of the car “Go faster Mummy” etc.Cheers
Sooshie []“small steps make the journey” (SAS)
Do you know how hard it is to type when youve been laughing till your eye water…… LOL [
]Ok take your seats this is a biggy…[|)][|)]
..(room fades to black..)..once upon a time at a McDonalds party….[
] the ones where they have a play area with tubes you can climb up and crawl through and slide down… (forming picture in my head..)when the party was over and we had to wait for the last couple of parents to pick up their children…I was sorta bored and my daughter and a friend were playing in the tubes.. well i sort of ummm followed them up the ladder (in this tube).. crawled along a fair way.. both of them by now were out of sight far ahead..so heres me attempting to find them in these tubes, then realising the higher you go the smaller the tubes got.. well i couldnt go up, so i had to go back down… i tried to turn and got stuck, then i heard my daughter laughing, which made me laugh getting more stuck.. she then showed me the easy way out…she had something to tell the next day at school …LOL…[
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[:0)][:0)]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)Lets face it the love you get from your kids makes the world seem a nicer place as it is pure unrequited love, they are the reason we are here looking to make a better future for them, to learn about property investing and to make sure they will inherit a positive future.
If you thought your kids life depended on your success would you get 100 property in 5 years?
I think you already know that answer.
just do it.
Cam.
this morning…I feel like a truck hit me doing 70 while I was in the slow lane!! Some kinda flu thingy Im getting….or at worst case scenario SARS LOL!
Well last nite I told everyone…..LET ME SLEEP IN!! I dont care if the house is burning down.. let me sleep until 11 am tomorrow!
At 9 I was woken with “mum we are just getting breakfast..we will be quiet so we dont wake you up”
15 minutes later…it was “mum, can we play on the puter so you can sleep”
Then the cats were thrown under the doona “in case I wanted them to get warm” and the TV was turned up while “mum slept”
Followed by a wonderous argument over who was wearing the pink jumper….which went for 20 minutes or so till I told them NO ONE IS WEARING THE DAMNED PINK JUMPER!!
At 10.30 the phone rang…so I gave up trying to sleep…dragged my sorry a$$ outta bed and went looking for a hot shower.
After all was said I done…..I was greeted with “morning mummy….did you enjoy your sleep in?”[
][]~ Heaven doesnt want me and Hell is afraid I will take over! ~ :þ
Pinky, isnt that a normal morning though…[
]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)*walks past Arty all innocent like…..*
******* SLAP !!!!!! ******* [
]~ Heaven doesnt want me and Hell is afraid I will take over! ~ :þ
awwww Pinky’s get’n Kinky !…. *slapsies*
[
]Boy im gonna get it later.. [
]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)The fact that kids will make sense of a situation for themselves if it isn’t explained to them, was made clear to me when I was doing the weekly shopping with my son, then about four. I was on family leave so we were a family of four with just my husband’s income. We had incurred an unexpected expense that week so I had to keep to a strict budget.
My son kept putting toys, biscuits, lollies, etc into the trolley as we walked along the aisles. I systematically put them back telling him “Not this week. But next week we will have some extra money so I will let you choose something then.”
(I was told to never tell children “We can’t afford it” as it creates the pauper mentality; whereas the explanation given develops responsible financial planning.)
However my son kept insisting “the lady wants us to have them”. He couldn’t explain what he meant, so I just let it go as we kept shopping.
Finally we got to the checkout. I was told the total and handed over my EFTPOS card. I asked for some cash out as well. As the assistant handed me my docket and cash my son shouted out, almost in tears, “See, I told you the lady wanted us to have all those things. She’s paying you to take stuff away!”
I saw the funny side, but it was also a serious lesson for me to learn. He had tried to make sense out of what he saw so often, but unfortunately got it very wrong! I tried to explain to him how EFTPOS works, but I don’t think he understood.
It makes me wonder if that is part of the reason why his generation use credit cards so much, running up so much debt.
So be warned, think about what your children see you doing. Talk to them about it to find out what explanation they come up with ~praise them if they are right; correct it if they are wrong.
haha [
]I got a million of them LOL [8D]
My wife called in a phone order at the local “Fish and CHips”, as we left Pinky said to me “oh get a Pickled Onion, and tell (my eldest)
as she was coming with me.. and I would forget !”So I told my eldest, “remember” we need a pickled onion… all the way down there she was practising how to ask for the extra onion… “sorry mum forgot to order a pickled onion”..”Can you please add a pickled onion to the order”.. etc…
We got there, and she walked in with confidence… “Hi, Can you please add 1 pickled onion to the phone order”… i was impressed… Con, the guy from the Fish and Chip shop, replied “You of course you may, in fact I will give you 2 for the price of 1!”.. she was wrapped!, and thanked the man.
All the way home and explaining what happened to Pinky.. it was “because I asked so nice, I got you an extra pickled onion for free!.., I like that man that works in that shop!”.. she was very proud of herself. [
]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)Hi investorxdrawdinair
Quote:(I was told to never tell children “We can’t afford it” as it creates the pauper mentality; whereas the explanation given develops responsible financial planning.)end Quote
Thank you that is good advise.
I always try to talk to my 2 sons as if they are much older and include them in the family disscussions.
Cam.
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