Stuff Your Kid Tells You

[mevinyavin]

(Scrolls up-thread - "Ah, there it is. A kid that likes healthy food even when given all the choice in the world...")

I took my four-year-old for a dentist appointment at 11:45. She had to fast until the appointment... so I tried to bribe her by letting her choose what she wanted afterwards.

Me: "What do you want to eat when you get home from the dentist? You can choose anything you want."
Her: "Pasta balls, pretzels, cucumbers, and tuna fish."
Me: "Okay, but what do you want to take with you so you can eat before we get home? We can put it in a bag so you have it after."
Her: "Pasta balls, pretzels, and cucumbers."

[aygart]

There is a long distance between

if you get kids used to eating non-sweetened versions of things, .

And

their parents never let them have any.

[lubaby]

I took my four-year-old for a dentist appointment at 11:45. She had to fast until the appointment... so I tried to bribe her by letting her choose what she wanted afterwards.

Me: "What do you want to eat when you get home from the dentist? You can choose anything you want."
Her: "Pasta balls, pretzels, cucumbers, and tuna fish."
Me: "Okay, but what do you want to take with you so you can eat before we get home? We can put it in a bag so you have it after."
Her: "Pasta balls, pretzels, and cucumbers."

BH already at a young age she knows that “we don’t bring tuna fish into shared / public spaces. Especially if it might be sitting out for a few hours”.

[yungermanchik]

After I shaved today, י אב My 2-year-old:  "You have a mouth!"

(actually it was more like "youhafamouf!")

[mevinyavin]

After I shaved today, י אב My 2-year-old:  "You have a mouth!"

(actually it was more like "youhafamouf!")

My 2-year-old was giving me weird looks after I walked in from the barber. After a while, when I sat down, he climbs up behind me and starts playing with my beard. I guess it had really grown scraggly.

When my father worked at a record company, he says Paul McCartney asked him once, "How come all you Jews are looking so scruffy these days?"

[Euclid]

When my father worked at a record company, he says Paul McCartney asked him once, "How come all you Jews are looking so scruffy these days?"

Say what??

[yuneeq]

Say what??

I can only imagine how many great stories he has from working with major artists.

[mevinyavin]

I can only imagine how many great stories he has from working with major artists.

Quite. According to one of the mastering engineer forums when they did a poll, my father rated in the top five all-time mastering engineers (he said to me, "If only they knew what I looked like!"). And, his specialty was remastering old tapes and fixing all the weird noises and stuff, so the people he tended to rub shoulders with were the old school.

[YitzyS]

Quite. According to one of the mastering engineer forums when they did a poll, my father rated in the top five all-time mastering engineers (he said to me, "If only they knew what I looked like!"). And, his specialty was remastering old tapes and fixing all the weird noises and stuff, so the people he tended to rub shoulders with were the old school.

He must have been a real mevin

[mevinyavin]

He must have been a real mevin

You mean like when the Pro Tools people came down to give a seminar, and my father says something like, "Why can't you fix that problem by tweaking such as such a frequency like this..." and the guy's eyes go wide and he says, "You can do that with Pro Tools?"

[Lurker]

DW: Your hair is a mess. Let's fix it.
DD(3yo): I like it.
DW: But you look crazy. It's all over the place.
DD: So don't look.

[mevinyavin]

My wife - [2YO], should I help you cut your potato?
2YO- Nuh,uh! Don wanna cut topapo.

[30 seconds later]
4YO- [2YO], soon you'll be three and they'll cut your hair!
2YO- Nuh,uh! Don wanna cut here! (points at his potato). Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....
(Poor kid... and the 4YO didn't know what she said wrong.)

[mevinyavin]

My 2YO is one of those who goes to sleep by himself when he's tired (unless DW is around, that is). I turned out all the lights and gave him a drink, and he toddled off to bed.
My other kids were still not asleep twenty or so minutes later (though not a peep from his corner), so when the pizza arrived, I popped out to get it. When I walk back in, my 2YO is there surveying the dining room. His eyes light up when he sees the pizza boxes. "Totty gomi pita?" He asks. Resigning myself, I tried, "Yes, but its for tomorrow." (We never finish a pie and the kids get the leftovers.)
"Oh," he says, and toddles back to bed...

[Mordyk]

DW to 3 yr old daughter: what do we say when we blow the shofar?
3 yr old: Tequila!!!

I gotta stop drinking in front of my kids

[mevinyavin]

I took the opportunity to prepare RH mussaf yesterday in one shot. I was in my room but kind of loud.
I came out when I was done, and 9YO asks me, "That was all Rosh Hashana? It's sooo long!!"
(I said to myself, And that was without the tzibbur parts... I didn't have the heart to tell her that there's also Shacharis. Our minyan actually finishes first in Sanhedria Murchevet.)

[yuneeq]

My 4 y/o talking about his older sister.

“[Sister] gets a thumbs up upside down”

[mevinyavin]

5YO to 2YO: "You're a big tzaddik!"
2YO: "Nuh uh, I'm a [family name]!" Goes over to 9YO who has her head in a book and isn't listening. "9YO, right I'm a [family name]?"
9YO: "Of course!"
2YO goes back to 5YO. "See, I'm not a totty, I'm a [family name]."

[mevinyavin]

My 2YO is carrying a cookbook, going round and round the dining room table singing his favorite song, Vitaher Libeinu - only now, for some reason, it is being sung to the tune of Ana Ana Ana.
Guess he enjoyed Simchas Torah.

[Euclid]

My 2YO is carrying a cookbook, going round and round the dining room table singing his favorite song, Vitaher Libeinu - only now, for some reason, it is being sung to the tune of Ana Ana Ana.
Guess he enjoyed Simchas Torah.

כולו לכם/לחם

[CountValentine]

The Israel/Palestine conflict is not that simple.