Posted by MelissaCT on 12/5/06 8:49pm
Msg #164144

OT: Take time to play

My son just came in & said he's bringing me some toys since I've been working so hard. Leave it to a child to put things in prospective...

Reply by Signing_Doc on 12/6/06 9:24am
Msg #164215

Re: OT: Take time to play..always!!! (long response)

I've never been a parent so forgive me if I ask these questions (because this is what I think I would do if I were)...do you ever get down on the floor with your son and play?...not just sit there on his level and be with him, but PLAY...(make truck reving sounds...silly voices...jump up and down, skip rope etc)...IMHO, this is not only fun for the child but helps the "kid in you" from dying. I have many older nieces and nephews but my newest niece is just turning 3 in January next year...and she loves her Uncle Stuart..why, because he plays with her. She was watching a DVD of Mulan earlier this month and I was over at her house spending time with her parents (my sis and bro in law)...whenever the "scary" guys on the movie came on, I started to whimper and cringe...asking for her to "save me". I would hide behind her and 'beg' her to save me. She LOVED it...she would laugh and giggle and had a ball. Later that weekend, she told her 'gamma' that she wanted to say goodbye to her 'pal' Uncle Stuart. Take time to play...be a little silly in your life. My spousal unit and I get silly ALL the time. We may be at the grocery store and we start singing to the muzak in silly voices. We try to get the children and their parents in the store to join in. As Snoopy said..."Life is too short...not to live it up a little." I'm turning 55 on Friday, but I'm still a big kid and hope I NEVER get too old and serious. My brother, on the other hand is a P.iled H.igher and D.eeper and I can't see him goofing like we do. But back to the original post, MelissaCT, Take Time to Play....don't let the child in you go "bye bye"... Tell your son he is very wise and "get down and dirty with him" this weekend...rassle...run...etc.

That's "Doc's" prescription. Take this everyday and enjoy life. Don't take life TOO seriously...you are not going to get out of it alive anyhow. :-)

Reply by Bonnie_CO on 12/6/06 10:47am
Msg #164254

Great advice Doc!

I tell my husband, who is younger than me by several years, that he's an old man, because he takes life very seriously. The kids know when they want someone to get down on the floor with them, it will be Mom, not Dad.
I've never sang in the store, however when my 20 year old was 4, I had got fed up with his temper tantrums in the grocery store when he didn't get what he wanted, so the next time we went shopping and he started his little temper fit by screaming and laying on the floor kicking, I just lay dowm beside him and did the same thing, he stopped immediately, stood up, looked around and said " Mommy, get up" when I didn't he started pulling on my arm and telling me to get up now! Ya know, he never again EVER threw a temper fit in public again? Guess he warned the others as they came along not to do it either or Mommy would embarrass them like I did him! LOL!

Reply by Bonnie_CO on 12/6/06 10:48am
Msg #164258

OOPS! Should be down not dowm! n/m