[HPFGU-OTChatter] Semi-random gloating..and sadness *sigh*

[Kathryn]

Wait until you're home alone with young children. *They* climb on you and
drool on you and chew on your clothes and make you say things you never,
ever thought would come out of your mouth (Don't swing him by the eyeballs!
Stop chewing on the snake! Don't lick your sister! etc.)

--Amanda, who will ship her kids off to Joy tomorrow if it would relieve her
loneliness. All of them. I'll pack clothes. They can stay a while. Just let
me know.

See now that was where you made your mistake - you warned her. Yous hould
have sent them off to her and then told her about 5 minutes before they
arrived!

Does anyone else (especially those of you without your own kids yet) find
themselves turning into their parents if they babysit - because I used to
swear i would never say the things my parents did and yet when I'm around
the young kids in my family I find myself saying things like - "Were you
born in a field?" and "if you can't say anything nice ..."
I have so far resisted the urge to tell them they should eat everything on
their plate, while reinforcing the point with stories about starving kids in
Africa :) (mind you that's probably because my family's kids have a tendency
to eat anything that isn't nailed down)

K