Oh, Liz, Everyone loves babies – they are new and adorable. We all outgrow that and become people. I look at my boys’s childhood pictures and my heart melted at their adorable young faces filled with innocence. I look at my adult sons and ask myself, “Are these the same innocent and adorable little boys I raised?” It is sometimes hard to believe they are the one and same. Sigh.
We leave Elly thinking, “Why does my daughter think I don’t like her? I let her watch TV. I stopped talking about how she broke the milk and how she cursed and drew that picture of me as a witch and how she soaked me when she washed the windows when they were open and how she hurt Farley’s paw and how she was fighting in the street with Michael and the Enjo kids. We’ve had nothing but good times this past year.”
I was talking to my son the other day while he was holding his five-month-old son. My son was saying how easy it is for he and his wife to get their son to laugh with them, and be cute, and all that. My son then said that, “In 10 – 12 years, he (the baby) is going to think we are idiots.” So says the one who did exactly that!
Babies are cute and lovable, but a ton of work, so they need to be “instinctively” liked. As you get older, you get much more interesting, and are just as lovable! Being a royal pain again as a teenager is natures way of getting the parents to let go, at least a little. If everything doesn’t go straight south as the child and parent begin to let go, you will still be lovable as an adult, and one day if the parents are lucky, a grown-up person will turn around, looking a touch puzzled, and say,“Who are you, really? You’re my parent and I love you, but you are also someone I need to get to know as an adult. I don’t know the adult.”
capricorn9th almost 6 years ago
Oh, Liz, Everyone loves babies – they are new and adorable. We all outgrow that and become people. I look at my boys’s childhood pictures and my heart melted at their adorable young faces filled with innocence. I look at my adult sons and ask myself, “Are these the same innocent and adorable little boys I raised?” It is sometimes hard to believe they are the one and same. Sigh.
Templo S.U.D. almost 6 years ago
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” ~Robert Munsch
howtheduck almost 6 years ago
We leave Elly thinking, “Why does my daughter think I don’t like her? I let her watch TV. I stopped talking about how she broke the milk and how she cursed and drew that picture of me as a witch and how she soaked me when she washed the windows when they were open and how she hurt Farley’s paw and how she was fighting in the street with Michael and the Enjo kids. We’ve had nothing but good times this past year.”
Rosette almost 6 years ago
A better question would be, “Do you still like me as much now?”
M2MM almost 6 years ago
I prefer “the best is yet to be” and it really works (for me.)
jpayne4040 almost 6 years ago
Elizabeth asks the cutest questions! At least this one’s much easier to answer!
Ken Gagne Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Just wait until April comes along!
JPuzzleWhiz almost 6 years ago
After seeing the fourth panel, I thought of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umaLe37-LE
Asharah almost 6 years ago
Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow
For babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow
So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep
alliegator almost 6 years ago
oh for just 5 minutes back in time… my me then could rest and I could smell the sweet smell of baby hair one more time.
jbruins84341 almost 6 years ago
I was talking to my son the other day while he was holding his five-month-old son. My son was saying how easy it is for he and his wife to get their son to laugh with them, and be cute, and all that. My son then said that, “In 10 – 12 years, he (the baby) is going to think we are idiots.” So says the one who did exactly that!
coffeeturtle almost 6 years ago
Can’t stay babies forever. We all get bigger and uglier. ☺
Sailor46 USN 65-95 almost 6 years ago
Babies are cute, most of them grow out of that rather quickly.
3cranes Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Babies are cute and lovable, but a ton of work, so they need to be “instinctively” liked. As you get older, you get much more interesting, and are just as lovable! Being a royal pain again as a teenager is natures way of getting the parents to let go, at least a little. If everything doesn’t go straight south as the child and parent begin to let go, you will still be lovable as an adult, and one day if the parents are lucky, a grown-up person will turn around, looking a touch puzzled, and say,“Who are you, really? You’re my parent and I love you, but you are also someone I need to get to know as an adult. I don’t know the adult.”