Comments on: 19 weeks into Jane’s pregnancy: Tarzan’s pregnant thoughts…

By: Tarzan

Tarzan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:35:05 +0000

I have flashbacks of my parents and grandparents saying that line, “just wait until you have children” or the “I hope your kids act up the way you do so you’ll see what it’s like!” Oh boy. What did we get ourselves into!?

The good thing is that *hopefully* Jane and I will be able to continue to work from home. And absolute worst case, I’ll make sure that Jane works from home so that our son never has to go to daycare. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but as my own personal observation, the best behaved boys and girls I’ve ever seen in my life were home schooled. Now I have no clue if we’d go that route, I doubt it, but I think having a parent or two always home to raise a child helps a little. But on the other hand… I was always raised by family because I ran out every baby sitter in town! Eeks!

Only time will tell – but I can assure you, all this stuff is going to be at the forefront of my mind…. all… the… time!

By: Ally/Miss-Mae

Ally/Miss-Mae — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:59:28 +0000

Haha, well, it’s true that little boys are often more noisy… But there is ONE thing that I have to say to you about that. Boys may be more noisy and a bigger handful when they are younger, but they are also a lot less of a handful when they are teenagers. From what I’ve noticed, girls are WAYYYYY harder to deal with as teenagers, despite how easy they are as children. So, at least that’s something, right?

By: momof3girls

momof3girls — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:38:13 +0000

Well as a mom of three girls I will tell you I agree with Jesse. It really does have to do with parenting. With that said I have seen some kids that break that to pieces. My sisters son was crazy. I kept looking at him like something must be wrong with him. It’s a good thing my husband is the middle child of 7boys. He keeps reminding me that it’s normal. The only thing I can say is I was totally happy to see no little penis on the ultrasound last year. But get back to me in a few years when my 11 year old hits her teens I may be screaming a different tune
ps please don’t be one of those “don’t make me count to three…one..I mean it…two..your making mommy mad…three….I’m serious” parents that do nothing after three. The only thing you are doing is teaching your kid to count to three. If you start counting than at least be willing to back it up!
good luck!!

By: Mama Kelly

Mama Kelly — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:42:33 +0000

I am a mom to 2 girls. My eldest was one of those kids who ran around the store, kid in the clothing racks and gave me more heart attacks than I can count. Her younger sister was the proverbial “angel” and frankly those personalities haven’t really changed.

Your son could be an perfect angel or a little devil – only time will tell. LOL

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:18:17 +0000

Just for the record, I still wear heels, but they are not comfortable. My husband is trying to rid me of that, but who is he kidding to think that I won’t still love heels? I’m sure the day will come when the thought of wearing heels sounds awful, but I still like to do it now… while I still can.

As far as the boys acting up in public thing, God help me. I hope that I have tons of patience because I wanted to to yell at the boys who were wrestling yesterday. I did give them the evil eye, but I doubt that they even noticed. Oh boys!

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:45:43 +0000

My mom always used to tell me that payback for what we did to them was what our kids are going to do to us. She would say, “just wait til you have kids, they’re going to be act up like you did, time 10″. Scares the living hell out of me!!! I know I put my mom through some nasty times.

I really do believe it has a lot to do with parenting. Boys are known to be a little more rambunctious, but seriously, everywhere I go and see them misbehaving, the parents are NO where to be found. Or they’re totally ignoring their behavior. I work in a clothing store where a lot of women with kids shop and it absolutely angers me when they let their kids terrorize the store, or they expect the associates to babysit THEIR child/ren. I can truly say, MY KID WILL NOT EVER pull some of the things I’ve see parents let them get away with. And if he does, he’ll do it once, and the repercussions of his actions will be clear that he won’t want to do it again.
Or the whole squalling baby thing…Who just LETS the baby scream in a store? It’s annoying, and the polite thing to do is leave until your child has calmed down.

Anyways, I’m sure you and Jane will do just fine. And I wish my boyfriend took me shoe shopping! I’m jealous! lol