Mixed feelings...

Can't seem to get them to play here at work. I want to laugh too.
 
Sorry, I double-checked and at least the links are proper. I guess they block Facebook. At least you won't feel guilty (for the next few hours?).
 
Funny videos for sure...sort of. Poor guy! Works at my work but they probably dont know how to block it here:D. Sometimes laughing keeps your kids from crying. Seen it too many times. I had my grandkids last Weekend and they are a hoot! Never ending laughter:thumbup: We trekked through the woods the whole weekend following animal trails. They loved it. It was their idea btw. They are almost ready for their first Khuks so they can cut those "tickle sticks". Thats the branches that cross the trail and tickle them on the legs when they pass.
 
I laugh about all kinds of things. Ask my wife.
But this one made me feel weird in my tummy. Like when your own kids get hurt.
I hope it was just staged.
 
You know that weird thing they do, like they fall, get up and look at you to figure out whether they should cry or not. Amazed how it works sometimes, if you just keep a joyous tone and don't make a big deal out of it.

Oh and I'm sure they're made out of rubber. I'd break a handful of bones, were I to go again through stuff I did when I was small :). But back then - I was fine.
 
Moonw said:
Sorry, I double-checked and at least the links are proper. I guess they block Facebook. At least you won't feel guilty (for the next few hours?).
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Not a guilty bone in my body, never has been.
 
Exactly moon! They are rubberlike! If they werent we surely wouldnt be here as a species. They learn coordination while their center a gravity is continually changing. Amazing they do as well as they do in the first place. Your right about that look. I think they do that to see if they are hurt. If mom has a scared look on her face they cry. If moms laughing they laugh. If mom laughs and baby cries then they probably hurt:rolleyes: My grandaughter got a scratch on her leg from playing with the dog and it didnt phase her till she came back in the house much later and sat on the couch. As soon as her scratch touched the couch she started crying. I put a band-aid across about one fifth of it and she was fine.
 
Some people say Homeopathic medicine works and it's not just a Placebo since it works on kids and animals who don't have a clue about anything.
Well I guess kisses are real medicine too then. Almost every time I kiss my 3 year old after some hurt he tells me there is no hurt anymore or at least it feels better.

Not saying homeopathic things aren't real just saying that something works on kids is no real proof in my book.
 
ndoghouse said:
Exactly moon! They are rubberlike! If they werent we surely wouldnt be here as a species. They learn coordination while their center a gravity is continually changing. Amazing they do as well as they do in the first place. Your right about that look. I think they do that to see if they are hurt. If mom has a scared look on her face they cry. If moms laughing they laugh. If mom laughs and baby cries then they probably hurt:rolleyes: My grandaughter got a scratch on her leg from playing with the dog and it didnt phase her till she came back in the house much later and sat on the couch. As soon as her scratch touched the couch she started crying. I put a band-aid across about one fifth of it and she was fine.
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Yep, they are really something! :)
 
Jens Schuetz said:
Some people say Homeopathic medicine works and it's not just a Placebo since it works on kids and animals who don't have a clue about anything.
Well I guess kisses are real medicine too then. Almost every time I kiss my 3 year old after some hurt he tells me there is no hurt anymore or at least it feels better.

Not saying homeopathic things aren't real just saying that something works on kids is no real proof in my book.
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A kiss still works at my age, too :D, but I clearly remember how my Mother could take the pain away with one. Such sweethearts. Don't know about the deeper implications. I know for a fact that the Dopamine secreted by the brain should make a (little) difference indeed.

But I get what you say about stuff. If some natural substance is claimed to be a natural antibiotic, it'd better be under lab conditions in a "jar" and under the microscope as well :).
 
Vaguely related to childrens formative years, a short story.
I was at a friends house when I was probably 3 or 4 years old but I remember it clear as a bell and my friend does also.

His grandfather was full Italian, big fella, memory of him is a little vague but the incident again is clear.

Well grandpa grabbed my friend (his name was Steve, what a coincidence but still a true story) and stood him up on the mantel over the fireplace. In those days everybody had a fireplace. The mantel probably 5 ft off the ground and not much to stand on. Well grandpa set him up there and back up and told Steve (grandpa called him Julius???) to jump, that he would catch him.

Well Julius is having none of that, he won't jump. Goes on and on and he won't.
Grandpa stuck with it. Jump Julius, grandpa catch you over and over.
Well finally Julius jumps! Grandpa stepped out of the way and let him crash on the ground.:eek:

He then goes on to tell both of us, let that be a lesson to you, never ever a trust a nobody!

A life lesson that stuck with me fo sho. But I still trust folks, just not grandpa.
 
I know for sure that if I was as brittle when I was a kid as I am today I would have died at least twice a week when I was growing up. Falling out of tree-forts and using my brother as a counter weight on a teeter-totter to see how high we could launch each other by jumping from the swing set at the top of the arc and trying to land on the end opposite the one he was standing on are just some of the ways we went about learning how gravity functioned to our detriment :D Then there was the chemistry set we shared when I was 9-10 years old had a Bunsen burner, copper sulfate, and REAL Uranium with an asbestos "mat" around the back of it's sealed packaging. (PS, I wonder if the Uranium or the Asbestos is actually the more dangerous of the 2 LOL.) Even the sleds when it snowed enough to blanket the roadways in my neighborhood. Many things growing up provided opportunities to remove ones self from having to grow older, yet somehow I never had a kid in my school/neighborhood killed or seriously injured. I think kids are much less fragile than we tend to consider them. Neither of these 2 videos would have caused anything more than a bruise or 2 that needed Mom to "take care of" it with a quick cleanup, and a kiss.
 
Shavru said:
I know for sure that if I was as brittle when I was a kid as I am today I would have died at least twice a week when I was growing up. Falling out of tree-forts and using my brother as a counter weight on a teeter-totter to see how high we could launch each other by jumping from the swing set at the top of the arc and trying to land on the end opposite the one he was standing on are just some of the ways we went about learning how gravity functioned to our detriment :D Then there was the chemistry set we shared when I was 9-10 years old had a Bunsen burner, copper sulfate, and REAL Uranium with an asbestos "mat" around the back of it's sealed packaging. (PS, I wonder if the Uranium or the Asbestos is actually the more dangerous of the 2 LOL.) Even the sleds when it snowed enough to blanket the roadways in my neighborhood. Many things growing up provided opportunities to remove ones self from having to grow older, yet somehow I never had a kid in my school/neighborhood killed or seriously injured. I think kids are much less fragile than we tend to consider them. Neither of these 2 videos would have caused anything more than a bruise or 2 that needed Mom to "take care of" it with a quick cleanup, and a kiss.
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I just love your post - so funny, yet true! :)
 
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