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As a kid..
Were you a pain?
Do your parents have any stories that kind of make you hope that your kid won't do the same?
Happiest place on Earth!
Re: As a kid..
I think I was generally pretty quiet (which is kind of shocking now) and could entertain myself easily. I think I was a pretty good kid in that sense.
I was a terror when it came to separation. I had horrible issues starting school. I know this isn't necessarily true for everyone but I really want daycare for my kids b/c I feel like I would have been a little better equipped if I was forced to be more independent/socialized before the first day of school.
I screamed bloody murder when it came to getting on the school bus and would turn into a horizontal plank so that they physically couldn't shove me on the bus. My mom would have to come get me multiple times a week at the school or be late by having to drive me to school once the bus driver had to move on. Horrible.
Eventually I would get on the bus with the driver bribing me everyday with a Little Debbie snackcake (I'm sure this did wonders for my diet!). I also refused to eat in the lunch room for several years. I ate in the nurses office and would chat up whichever kids were sick in the cots lol. I was kind of a weirdass kid.
I really hope to avoid the severe separation stuff with our kids. I don't know if it will be possible to avoid the general weirdness.
I was wierd and quiet on the outside but sneaky on the inside. My parents still have no idea of the stuff that I did.
I wonder how that will translate to my bio kids- which will they be- sneaky or just out with it?
Apparently I was an angel compared to my two younger brothers.
My 21 year old brother didn't graduate high school, got horrible grades when he was in school, and had a bout with drugs. He is now pretty successful in his job - so luckily it was a horrible phase he went through.
My 13 year old brother was diagnosed with ADHD (a legit diagnosis, not a catch all that seems to be today).
I always got good grades in school. My biggest thing was I always got in trouble for talking in class. Other than that, I think I was a pretty easy kid to raise. I hope for some good karma in return.
I was a pretty good kid. I was pretty independent too, probably because I am an only child. I was painfully shy though, I hope that doesn't get passed down! I remember going to preschool and sitting at the tables by myself for a while everyday before I would get up the nerve to play with the other kids.
I hear horror stories about T and his brothers, makes me happy we are having a girl!
Claire Elizabeth 12/31/2011
Married Bio
Aw, I would've played with you!!!
You could've had lunch with me in the nurse's office.
I am told I was very good. Never really cried as a baby, totally chill. I was a very bubbly outgoing kid. Like, went up to strangers, even adults, and asked if they wanted to be my friend. The world was a stage! I took voice and dance and ice skating, etc. I miss the self-confidence I used to have.
One funny sassy story my parents do love to tell, though, is about visiting my Dad at work. I was like 4 and my baby brother 2. I was standing w/ my Dad facing his boss' desk talking to his boss. My little brother was climbing around and actually got up onto the deep windowsill behind boss (PS we were like 50 stories up) and was climbing over his files and I guess Mr. Boss was, understandably, trying to turn around and keep and eye on him while at the same time talk to me. I guess he finally turned and diverted all his attention to my brother and I stamped my foot, put my hands on my hips and screamed "LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!".
My Dad like to recall that he he offered me a job on the spot. I have to wonder where I ever heard that line (Hi, Mom!).
As a baby, my parents say I was fairly laid back. I didn't cry a bunch, but whenever I was having a problem I would SCREAM! Even my siblings remember I wouldn't cry, just scream.
As a little kid, I was very outgoing and very, very stubborn. I would go around meeting everyone in the room, organize games among other kids, etc. I miss that outgoing-ness now. The story my dad loves to tell about my stubbornness is that every day I would decide I wanted a new first name. I would NOT talk to someone if they didn't use my new name. We were doing a name quilt in preschool and I wouldn't put my real name on, just my new name, so the teacher had to put my real name around it. My mom has a picture of the quilt with Deh "Jem" ko. Hahaha.
In high school I got a little wild, but not too bad. I think sometimes my parents didn't know what to make of what I was doing, but I graduated high school and didn't have a kid before marriage or a drug problem, so I think they're satisfied.
I forgot that I was too but I got in enough trouble(=spankings) that I learned to filter it.
I was reportedly a great kid, and by kid I mean ages 4-12.
I hear I was a "handful" as a toddler. I hated my new baby brother when I was 3 1/2, so I sat on him and told my mother to take him back where she got him from. When I was 2, my mom told me to sit down in my high chair at a nice restaurant or else the waitress would get mad at mommy, to which I replied while standing, "I will KICK HER ASS." Very loudly. My parents didn't swear in front of me, so god knows where I picked that one up. Mom's still waiting on my karma for that one.
As a teenager, I thought my parents were the most unfair and least understanding people on earth, and I was argumentative and angsty about it from about 13-16. Things calmed down after that and have been great ever since.
That sounds like me!! When I was a baby I cried frequently and I didn't want to be away from my parents. Nobody ever wanted to watch me when I was younger. As a kid though, I was pretty easy. My mom always says that I learned from my brothers mistakes.
Me too! Sassy pants.
I think I was a pretty good kid. Like Naylon, always making friends with everyone. I think sometimes I talked too much, though. I've never had a filter. My mom tells me that at dinner they'd ask what I did at school/daycare that day, and I would give them a minute-by-minute play-by-play. Then they'd ask my younger brother and he'd be like, "I dunno. Stuff."
I would just talk talk talk. My mom told me that once we were shopping with my Nana and Great Grandma Mona. GG Mona was getting a little tired, and my mom was tired of hauling a toddler around, so my mom and Nana went off to do some shopping, and I sat there with my great grandmother and told her the entire story of Cinderella for an hour.
My mom says that I was the best baby ever. I was always happy and hardly ever cried. Then, I turned 2 and my brother was born and I was apparently quite a handful during the toddler years. I didn't want a baby brother and was very vocal about it. That is also when I developed my temper and my nickname as a child "Mt. Fuji" Apparently I did this whole fist clenching, red faced, body shaking bit when I was angry and my neighbor and parents would look at me and say, "Whoa! Look out, Mt. Fuji is about to erupt!". I have always been stubborn and have quite a temper on me. I also was a biter and would bite anyone and everyone.
I have always been shy and quiet, and was extremely shy from the time I was 5 until I was about 11 or 12. It was so bad that I had a hard time making friends and I never wanted to talk to anyone besides my family. I was always great in school and got straight A's pretty much the whole time. I was, and still am, a perfectionist when it comes to academics. I also was into a lot of sports that kept me busy and out of trouble. I was a good kid in high school. I was never into partying or the typical social scene. My mom says I was the easiest teenager out of the bunch to raise because I was pretty independent, stayed out of trouble, and was good in school. My brother and sister on the other hand were wild teenagers and slacked off in school.
I hope Kellen and Tessa both take after me and DH while in high school and aren't into partying or anything like that. I am, unfortunately, receiving my karma in the terrible 2's and toddler years already because Kellen is a pistol. I have a feeling Tessa is going to way worse as a toddler too *Sigh*.