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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (54359)	8/10/2002 8:13:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Our big children are destructive, but nothing compared to toddlers. As I read the first part of your message, I was thinking this very thought. Except maybe more so than toddlers as long as you have the time and energy to monitor the toddlers 24/7. Our kids are wonderful, but when they've lived in a room for just an hour or two it can look as though a tornato has passed through. Nothing intentional, just so many interests that none seem to get done and put away before the next one gets started. And never having paid $2,000 for a dining room table, they have only an intellectual sense, not a visceral knowledge, that spilling water, glue, etc. on the table is anything to worry about. But in the end, we just have to celebrate that people are more important than possessions. I look at my friends whose daughter on her 18th birthday moved out to a friend's house lock-stock-and-barrel because she was an adult now and didn't need to listen to her parents ever again to realize how precious it is to have kids who are still desperate to come home every chance they get.