Penni...I, too, always love your stories. Picturing you, dragging Ammo to the keys with bowls of tempting treats, is a classic.
As a parent, I wanted my kids to be well-rounded...play a few sports,play an instrument,be avid readers, learn to write...just well bred kids. We had the first year of torment with a trumpet,piano, a sax, cymbals and a set of drums. We never heard any true music coming from our house, just toots, clangs and bangs.
We had signed the boys up for hockey and baseball as young ones but they hated getting up early to go to a cold rink or stand in the pouring rain to hit a little, white ball. We, of course, loved every minute of the torture! So, we gave in and let them drop both sports. I haven't heard the end of it because as adults, they can't believe we didn't make them stick with those sports that they now think are cool.
Of course, they all balked at whatever we insisted on and choose to do the things that we hadn't thought they'd take to. They all starred in plays, painted, ran track,played rugby. One of my sons gave up soccer as a junior and switched to football. I thought he did that because he loved the sport but it turned out to be the cute cheerleaders and having his house t.p.d that was the draw.
Had he not been a somewhat lazy child, he would have run away from home.
Had I not been a somewhat lazy parent, I would have run away from home! |
