Back from vacation and what did I learn and do....

Family vacations, staying at Parents house and trying to get your parents to recall what is needed to child proof a house is one of the joys of being a parent. Okay, it is our child and we aren’t asking people/family to remodel their houses in order to accommodate us staying with them we just expect that they at least hide the knives and removes those tempting priceless figurines out of the reach of a 3 foot destruction machine. Well, that is a lot to ask because it appears that once our parents have kids and survive the toddler stage they have their memory wiped and fail to understand that saying “No” a 1000 times an hour is not as much fun as they think it would be. What is fun is trying to keep a straight face as they try to reason with your child by saying such cute things as “no, no be a big boy and put that priceless antique down and play with your toys”, as if they expect that your child will understand and hang on every word they say.

Well on our recent trip the parents did seem to do better at preparing for us, that or they were robbed and then attacked by a rogue cleaning crew.

Also, over the holiday we took the little guy to see the fireworks and he liked them this year and it didn’t faze him a bit. This time next year I will be writing about how we need to get our child a therapist because the same fireworks display scared the %#$@ out of him and we are mean parents for putting him through it. We also took him on his first set of amusement rides and surprisingly my child who can Ralph on command wasn’t fazed a bit by any rides. All together it was a good time and we lived to tell about our adventure. On a positive note I got to sleep in one morning to 7:45 AM, I called the local paper and they didn’t think it was news worthy (must not be a parent)…

Things to do for fun:

If you want to have a good time, try explaining to your father-in-law who is in his 70’s, what a “time out” is on the “naughty rug” (watch Nanny 911 for clarification) for your son and why he shouldn’t talk to him while he is being punished. Something says that he was never raised with this form of punishment because when we tried to explain the concept to him he looked at us like we were speaking Yiddish.


Good luck, and remember they are only young once and what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.