I’m pretty easygoing as a parent.
No doubt it is because I’m a little lazy.
My girls are allowed to roam the farm as they please, forego helmets when riding bikes, eat sugar and skip baths once in a while.
Sometimes they get their bath in the pond with all the fish, mud and algae.
I’m like the anti-helicopter parent.
I am the very last person in the world to judge other parents. So I won’t.
But I just have to say that this makes every bone in my whole body cringe. I… I cannot even look at this photo any more than I have to but yet I had to share it. Does that even make sense?
*Disclaimer: I am sure these are wonderful, intelligent, well-mannered boys and for all I know their bottoms are super-glued, nailed, chained or some combination thereof to that canoe. Maybe this one time I’m sort of helicopter-y. Give me a pass on this one?
Good golly! That is unreal.
Oh my word!
I can’t breathe.
It’s a picture. I have to keep telling myself that I cannot run out and stop that car. Oh my word!
And here I just wandered over — just spreading the word that I posted another installment of my untitled story and THIS happened.
Ugh.
BTW, you’re a great mom!
Blessings,
Lacy
They’re not actually driving around…ARE THEY!!
Looks like fun to me! I remember as a kid riding in the back of my Papa’s pickup @ probably what felt like 50-60 mph, sittin on the under-the-wheel-seat, care-free with the wind in my hair & getting hammered with bugs in the eyes or worse yet in my mouth! (gag gag) Sigh…..those were the days.
BTW my kids aren’t allowed to have as much fun as I did =). Whoever said life was fair, was a big liar! lol
Yeah, what kind of idiot parents don’t understand that doing something this unsafe will dent the roof of the SUV.
I am pretty a pretty relaxed parent, too. Ya know, I think it may have to do with the number of children we have. The more kids = the more relaxed.
I don’t know, I could see my boys doing something like that by the time they’re teenagers… or by next summer. =D
Yeah…….I didn’t even flinch for the boys, but the vehicle, that’s another story. They look old enough to me to know how bad it’s gonna hurt if they do somethin’ stupid. Besides that I’m convinced it’s a miriacle that the males in our species make it to adult hood. Makes me shake my head and wonder.
Okaaaaay…
Wonder who thought that bright idea up?
Dad or the boys…or both?
By the way, I love that picture of Peanut in the mailbox. Everytime I stop in, I just have to sit and admire that picture.
Isn’t that guy on Sussex County’s Board of Supervisors? The exception always proves the rule, you know.
Haha! I knew it was just a matter of time before one of the locals came over to stir the pot by bringing up THAT little fact.
Shoulda known it would be you, Miss Anna!
-Jennifer
I HAVE teenagers and they would totally do this, and I would totally forbid (which would make some sort of marginal difference – as in ‘not in front of Mom’), because really terrible things happen when THAT is done in a public venue – like what is being done OUT of the public eye? In fact, I had to look really close to make sure that none of mine were there, and I am 500 miles away.
Yikes! And I thought I was a laid-back parent, but whoa!
yeah…that made my knees go weak!! Looks like something my kids would maybe ‘suggest’…but NO way, that seems scary to me…more for the ‘watchers’ than the ‘doers’ maybe?!?!
What were they thinking??
As a mom of 4 boys I will hide this post from them. They come up with enough crazy ideas on their own.
Yep, makes me nervous too. But, we all have our moments…right?
Ok ,well I would be the one you hear loudly gasping and saying something about what kind of idiots think that’s a good idea ?
Of course, my girls want to ride in the back of the F-150, and I know that there’d be no restraining them, so it ain’t all us guys.
Karen wrote:
By the time we reach adulthood, y’all outnumber us about 52-48.
Naww, come one. It looks like fun. What is a parade traveling? 3 miles per hour?
I’m a real laid-back type, too, but being around little ones at work and hearing about the stupid things their parents do at home has just about convinced me we’ve got a lot of messed up people out there not doing a very good job of parenting. On a brighter note, though… your comment about bathing the kids in the pond reminded me of when I was growing up and we would be at the lake in the summers, and Mom would hand me a bar of Ivory soap and tell me to go jump in the lake!
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