My Biological Clock...

[PacificBlue]

is ticking too damn loud! Does anybody know how to turn it off???

I was at the mall today and feeling all mushy while I looked at baby clothes for the upcoming birth of a gf's baby. I'm sure I've romanticized childhood because I don't have them...but it seems like there are few things as comforting and joyful in this world as seeing a baby smile for the first time, hearing them coo and giggle, rocking babies to sleep, reading to a preschooler and making different voices for all the characters, playing outside on the swingset, or just enjoying a popsicle in the summer heat.

*sigh*

 

[tmuyo]

lol

hey, you never pmed me about what type of story you'd like to do...

 

[registered "^^"]

YES

But they grow up PB, and you regret teaching them to speak!

 

[PacificBlue]

Re: YES

But they grow up PB, and you regret teaching them to speak!

Even so you have something that I may never get to experience...time will tell, and it's ticking away rather quickly. I get this way every year right before my birthday, I think it's worse this year because several people I know are pregnant.

 

[beckbabe]

Borrow some kids for a day. A 2 year old would be perfect...that mushy voice will shut right up, for a while at least.

 

[Bob Peale]

Borrow some kids for a day. A 2 year old would be perfect...that mushy voice will shut right up, for a while at least.

I have two you can borrow, but you have to have insurance.

 

[*bratcat*]

Hell, I will let you have 4...

 

[Pokerman]

My favorite kid quote....

You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk, and the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut up.

 

[cymbidia]

Have you heard of the study that was done utilizing Olympic athletes & preschoolers?

(Disclaimer: This study may be an urban myth; i have no independent corroboration of it ever having been done for real.)

Whoever conducted the study took 20 Olympic athletes from many different sports and paired each one with a 3-5 year old child. The athletes were supposed to do everything the child did, copying exactly all the movements. If the kid climbed the stairs, so did the athlete, right behind the kid. If the kid flung herself to the floor and pretended to be doggie, so did the athlete.

None of the athletes made it past two days.

The energy output of those average, run-of-the-mill preschoolers so far exceeded the energy output of those world-class athletes that it surprised and shocked everyone involved in the study.

We who have children in this age range could have told them the outcome of the study. We know kids this age suck energy out of all the adults in their immediate vicinity without conscious volition. They're like energy vampires, these kids. Honestly.

 

[Mistress]

Mine has been clicking since I was 18

 

[Mensa]

Just a thought

She was so old that her biological clock was a sundial.

 

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