Canadians invade Australia!

[bowlofpetunias]

The good thing is that when our son went away.. he recognized a couple things he started to do that reminded him of Nic.. It made him rethink things and turned out to be a great learning experience for him so in the end.. it worked out to be a positive for everyone!

 

[burna]

Sounds like 1 lucky Kiwi. Bet he was glad of that grumpy Canadian Mum after all!!

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Possibly now.. but he sure wasn't then... the girl with the fractured cervical vertebrae wound up being returned to her home country unable to walk.. never heard if she recovered... sad really... At the time.. he still insisted He would have been ok..go figure. I was glad when they relocated him. I couldn't live with myself if something happened top him when I was supposed to be treating him like he was my child! Funny he found the rules our 18year old followed were not appropriate for him at 16

Anyway like anything else.. you walk away and say.. I sure learned a lot from that.. and my son commented about how he figured our rules were pretty good!

 

[Underwater Ogre]

We Canucks can be a strict bunch...

Love the whale and the gull burna....still laughing!

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Hey.. I only Threatened my son with Withdrawal of Breathing privileges.. I never actually did it.... The "Waterbed incident was HIS fault!"

 

[Underwater Ogre]

I remind my kids...its very difficult to call the "kids help line"...with broken fingers

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I loved Bill Cosby's threat..."I made you.. and I can make another dozen just like you!"

When my son got taller than me.. I used to tell him..."You gotta sleep sometime.. sleep is a great equalizer! I can get a good shot or two in and be GONE before you can do anything about it!"

One day he was foolish enough to try to "call me on it"! He said "Aww Mom you always say that but you never do anything so I have nothing to worry about" Honestly doesn't that sound like a challenge to you?..... he really should have known better!

That night while he was sleeping on his water bed. I put about a litre of body temperature water in the watering container I used for my indoor plants. I sneaked into his room and carefully poured the contents over his behind (he was sleeping on his stomach.

The next morning when I woke him up for school, he got this funny look on his face! He got up and put all his bedding in the laundry. I asked him if there was a problem. He said "No, I just figured it was time to wash everything"

I let him go for 3 months.. thinking he had wet the bed! Not something a 17 year old wants to think... "giggle" he even turned down a couple over night visits to friends and a weekend away doing training exercises with Cadets! :daydreaming: Do you think he might have been afraid he would have another "accident"?

 

[burna]

Hahaha! You're evil!

 

[bowlofpetunias]

no! not ME!

 

[Underwater Ogre]

We have kids so we can torment them like we tormented our parents...or is it we torment them because they torment us??

Well I just learned a real good one! Thanks BOP!