Bad Parenting

This topic is dedicated to snakesbelly, although he's never mentioned having any offspring.

ROTFLOL. 

I was walking home with my kid the other day, and was a little upset because he had been a bad little boy at his last day of kinder ... suddenly it started raining, and being the inquisitive little brat that he is, he asked me why ... I told him God was crying... and of course he asked why again, so I had to tell him "because you did something wrong!"

(okay, actually, don't have any kids of my own, but the story ain't bad :)

It's the same with a sailboat ... too big to clean the bilge properly... but at least then you can teach them to free-dive and clean the hull.

You are a terrific parent. What I like is that you don't let yourself get hung up on any new age "techniques."

It ain't broke so don't fix it.

"Looks like a sprain to me. Walk it off pussy."

Man, I still remember...good times, good times.

I remember (fondly) with belt in hand he said, "bend down and grab your ankles." Sometimes he forgot the part about, "this will hurt me more than it hurts you."

We kids learned fast how to feign pain with Dad.

The Catholic Nuns were quite skilled at those techniques as well.  But eventually the kids got too big for the Nuns, and for the (High School) Marianist Brothers.

Then came the payback.        

True story:  My dad got in BIG trouble for pelting the nuns at his high school with water balloons ... from the top of a FIFTH story building!  

Good times, I tell ya!

You can never get the little tykes out on the trail too soon.

snakesbelly as a child:

Snakesbelly and his snake continue to grow:

Boy, some of these people should have won a Darwin Award before they reproduced. The likelihood of their offspring surviving seems a bit lower than average.