[Madpaddy]

Hey Grandpa,

I assume you either know Specop personally or else you are typing using an attachment inserted up your ass when you talk about how other people raise their kids

[Grandpa]

Specop_007,

Perhaps I have been overly pendantic in my view of your parenting, which little glimps you have shown. I would say that you are motivated and caring, if but a little misdirected. I hope you truly love your child and can grope for the path that will give that loved child a truly nice life. Few children are lucky enough to experience good parenting.

As for Madpaddy,
I do not know him personally, and I do have the balls to tell others when I think they are good parents or are screwing up. I take it that you are personally offended by by high quality parenting or by my criticism of what I regard as mistakes. I think that perhaps you take offense because you recognize your own parental deficiencies and somehow wish to avoid criticism for your own fuckup.

[Grandpa]

To Madpaddy,

First of all, I am critical of parents who do a poor job, and make the lives of thieir children miserable.

Many people think that they can fuck and then accidentally get a child and they are parents. Given a child to raise, they havn't a clue so they do the same stupid shit that their own parents did, hence they produce the same fuckups that they are themselves, unloved, needy, feeling worthless, little people forced by bad parenting to emulate the lives of their parents.

Based on you reaction to my critical post, I take it that you are one of these felling worthless people yourself, hence your reaction to a criticism that was not directed to you, but which you nevertheless received cause this is the nature of paranoia, to hear a general criticism and then to take it personally.

So now that I know who I am dealing with, and I can suppose you are a dimwit average parent, then I know to consider the source.

Get the to a shrink or get stearilized!

[Madpaddy]

Ok Grandpa - so I admit that my last post was unwarranted. My point was that you seemed to be attacking Spec on his parenting which I felt was harsh seeing as you don't know him or his situation from Adam.

I am a parent and certainly not a perfect one (who is). I have 2 boys aged 1 and 2 and I can safely say they get more time from me as a Dad than most others I know.

My two year old is far more advanced than most kids his age because of the time my wife and I spend reading to him etc.

He can also fly, drive and use high tech weaponry (only joking).

Our friends comment always on how happy the boys usually are.

So can we start afresh here and I apologise again for my last post.

[Grandpa]

Madpaddy,

So you shoot an arrow at me and then I shoot ten back, telling you I think you are a dumb fuck jerk, etc., and now you want to start over??? on a more friendly basis. Hell, half the fun of posting to me is to bump up against someone and have a fun fight, challenging oneanother's intellects.

Well, anyway, nice to hear that you love your little ones. One and two years old, crap, didn't you ever hear of birth control? You must be some sort of sex maniac.

[Madpaddy]

Grandpa,

Well, I reckoned it would be good to get it all done close together. It'll be a hard couple of years with 2 kids so young but when it's done, it's done. Have taken steps to make sure that there won't be any more. Didn't know about PO when we planned our family.

The second kid was conceived after a night out in Marshall's Irish Pub in Washington DC - I blame the Long Island Ice teas.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Madpaddy, work with them on the times tables, don't leave it to the schools. I'm sure (?) they're no better in Ireland on that. I taught all my kids the times tables long before they got it in school. There's no better way to let them know at a very young age that you care.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'M')y 2nd grader has a science fair coming up. I'd like to do something somehow related to PO without looking like a freakoid survivalist doomsayer to all the other parents in the area.

[Specop_007]

TIME OUT!!
Back to the subject at hand.
Ok Grandpa, maybe I was a bit hostile. To quickly sum.
3 kids, none in daycare. never have been. I work nights across the weekends so i can stay home during the days on the week while my wife works. I fucking hate it, but that alone is more of a sacrafice then most parents make for thier children. They want for nothing (well, their kids. They want for everything but you know....)
They spend the school year with us in the city, then for the summers spend about half of it back home in the country with our grandparents (both families, plus extended family). The wife and I both went to the same high school, so most of our family is in one location.

Any other questions I can address?

Anyways, its a moot point. After asking my daughter what she wanted to do and throwing out some options, she wants to do something with the space. Fair enough, space is cool as hell anyways. Off to brainstorm.