Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 11, 2013

Toddlers, nature’s birth control…

All parents have this problem!

why do you think the grandparents get stuck with the kids so often. My daughter says she wants to go out, leave the kid with us, and then doesn’t leave her home.

Ask your mom.

That’s way too much information sharing. Poor Wally is right. Sure, toddlers can be work, but just be firm with them and it’s fine. Heck, I’ve heard of people (not me) who share their bed with their kids and they still manage to get pregnant. Bizarre to me…

if they didn’t you would not be here to make this remark. The kids do finally grow up and move out and if you had them at a young age, then you are still young enough to enjoy the “empty nest”. lol

The species with no children are history.

sooo you wonder why your parents had you?

My kids are all grown up and now they help me when my SSA does not cover all my expenses (so I don’t have to spend my savings or pay interest to my bank on my line of credit). My kids were good even when they were all very young; the older ones could fetch things when the youngest was nursing (just nothing fragile). Only my daughter has 1-1/2 years before 50 (youngest boy was 50 last September). Oldest boy is 53 now and has 2 sons (22 and 24). My middle son has a boy and girl and is the most generous (because of his job, he can be).

Kids are nature’s way of providing grandchildren.

If Lucy’s still nursing, what’s she going to do when Joan is gone for 10 days?