Speakeasy forum: The Toddler's Laws of Ownership

someone else helped you build it so it's not yours either.

These guys?

neighbourhood had a baseball/football, whatever??? You must be really, really old. Like pre-WW2 old, because in my not particularly affluent public school years beginning in 1951, I was the only one who didn't have a baseball. I had a glove, but no baseball. Mostly I used an India rubber ball which was heavy, the size of a base ball, bounced really well and drove my mother crazy bouncing off the end wall of our house. Qr we played at recess, same thing, one guy bouncing it off the gym wall and half a dozen kids trying to catch it. (Yes, if it means anything, by 2nd grade I was in a brand new brick school which had a gym/auditorium. It was a big improvement over the frame and clapboard building I started school in.) Catch it on the fly, you get to be the guy who throws it. The object was to put a spin on it so it came off the wall in an unexpected direction so you got to throw again.

You don't have to develop a blind eye or a deaf ear, James. You already have them. that's why you espouse the views you do. You're so out of touch it must be like floating on a cloud.

Rob

I was at the grocery store tonight, and walking through it I came upon a small child sitting in the middle of the aisle kicking his feet and screaming and crying. As I came closer, I heard the child's mother asked the child if he was done with his tantrum which caused the child to scream even louder. I smiled knowingly at the mother and nodded, and she smiled back and shrugged her shoulders.

Sometimes there is nothing to be done until the children wear themselves out screaming... and then ask them if they are ready to move on.

would come and stay all summer and most of the winter months with me every year before she started going to school. I have a tall storage cupboard (floor to ceiling) that had doors that would open outward toward the doorway that connected to the livingroom. I gave her a shelf all her own and would put fresh fruit, cookies, her bottle (or later a sippy cup), etc on her shelf and she would get what she wanted on her own whenever the urge struck her. Derek and his friends were all nearing teenage back then and would torment her like crazy to 'give me a bite of that, Sam' if she had a goodie they liked. She learned quickly to open that cupboard door so they couldn't see what she was going to get off the shelf, but she would lean way into the cupboard so that her upper half was completely inside, take a bite of what she wanted, then back out, close the door and walk away. She stopped giving away her goodies to a couple of lazy jerks who didn't want to get off the couch and go get their own treats. LOL

When Derek and Heather left their two boys (both under 3) with me for a week a month ago, I again cleared off that shelf and stocked it for them. When Derek and Heather came back to get them, Derek broke out laughing remembering that shelf and Samantha because his two sons were doing the same thing. The only difference between the boys and Sam was that Sam would dole her treats out carefully so they would last the whole day.....his boys would cram all the goodies they could get into their mouths quickly and within a few minutes the treats were gone and they were crying for more LOL I think it's a guy thing.........

engraved in marble and gilded at RNC National Headquarters.

"I worked for a company who ruined itself and the Government bailed it out so I deserve my bonus, because I ... ran the company into the ground and that's a pretty hard thing to do and I'm opposed to all government hand outs except when I get part of them." Another Republican truth.

Yep, Republicans are just Toddlers with more expensive toys. They throw tantrums too, just look at Karl Rove.

Rob

Bush announces $17.4 billion auto bailout

Wasn't it BO who concocted the Auto Bailout deal.

Bush CONCOCTED the Auto Bailout deal/....Obama carried it on.

So the answer to your question is NO, HE didn't. Bush did.