Do you ever wish you could say to your child...

[Tap, tap, tap]

"are you Really That Stupid?!?!?!?"

Ds 13 is a very logical and responsible boy.

Ds 13 left a muffin in his swimming bag. :ohmy: For two weeks!:ack2:

Swimming pool locker room gets ants in the spring.

Ants like muffins.:drool5:

Swimming bag is full of ants.

Mom says to kid "throw your swimming bag in the washing machine immediately when we walk in the door. Do NOT set it down.":gnorsi:

Kid obeys mom.:thumbup:

Mom finds swim bag in washing machine....


With the compartments zipped up.

Mom finds money, zipper bags, food, candy bar....still in bag.

Mom finds towel and gear from main compartment on floor of laundry room.:crying:

Mom finds ants.:party:


Mom is fighting the Urge to say "are you Really That Stupid?!?!?!?" :banghead:

[Cadam]

cause and effect really don't occur to them. I am so sorry!

[Sue G in PA]

:D Just kidding. Really, just kidding! That is a funny story, though, only b/c my kids would do the exact same thing. In fact...my DH would do that exact same thing. In fact, DH puts wet towels, balled up in tied plastic bags in the laundry room w/out telling me so they sit there for a week until towel day and lo and behold...mildew AND ants all over towel. Don't you ever wish you could say to your DH, "Are YOU really that STUPID?????". :glare:

[Jennifer in MI]

Okay- I know it's not funny, but I'm LOL! More at the way you wrote it. I'd be ticked too. I read this to dh and he said, "Sounds like Sam!" (Our 11 yo ds) If you ask him to do something, you have to explain every step or he'll take you literally. My ds probably would've thrown the entire bag in without taking out the towel and suit! (You didn't tell me to take everything out mom!)

Someday this will be a funny story - maybe at his wedding?:lol:

[Riverfront Headmistress]

:D I say it in Italian.

[jellybean]

"are you Really That Stupid?!?!?!?"
Ds 13 is a very logical and responsible boy.
Ds 13 left a muffin in his swimming bag. :ohmy: For two weeks!:ack2:
Swimming pool locker room gets ants in the spring.
Ants like muffins.:drool5:
Swimming bag is full of ants.
Mom says to kid "throw your swimming bag in the washing machine immediately when we walk in the door. Do NOT set it down.":gnorsi:
Kid obeys mom.:thumbup:

Mom finds swim bag in washing machine....
With the compartments zipped up.
Mom finds money, zipper bags, food, candy bar....still in bag.
Mom finds towel and gear from main compartment on floor of laundry room.:crying:

Mom finds ants.:party:

Mom is fighting the Urge to say "are you Really That Stupid?!?!?!?" :banghead:


No. I wouldn't even think it! Children at that age are going through alot in their minds. They do forget things and do not really think things through. I hope you get it worked out. They are just being kids and normal for the age you are speaking of.

[Remudamom]

Here's another you should never say to your kids.......

"Do I look stupid to you???"

[Whisperlily]

:lol:

:grouphug:

[Crissy]

Here's another you should never say to your kids.......

"Do I look stupid to you???"

Especially if you've taught them to Never, EVER lie.

[Sunkirst]

Who else finds the need to give ridiculously detailed instructions to both ds and dh? I cannot say "Look in the fridge," I must say "In the fridge on the second shelf down from the top, on the left hand side behind the pickles."

My son would have nodded and smiled and then left the bag in the car. :glare:

[j.griff]

LOL, I have to give everyone detailed instructions, but then when I've given them x many specifics they shut down and just can't comprehend it all. LOL. I have to go VERY slowly, waiting for them to "get" the first few directions, and apply them- before I can continue. Thus, it's almost always easier to just do it myself :D (it also saves my sanity if I just "do it"). For everyday things, I have written specific directions down for my dd ahead of time, and had her use it as a checklist to make sure she did it all correctly. I don't do that much anymore- it's not necessary. BUT- for "new" or "odd" jobs, it's just excrutiating.

[Antonia]

Yes, but it usually comes out as, "Please use the brain God gave you!"

[Paz]

I hate to admit it but my 18 yo ds would do this. He is very bright but everyone is shocked when they find out that he is so intelligent. He just floats through life. :lol:

[Scarlett]

My dh gives me detailed instructions. Drives me batty. For instance if he wants me to get his gym bag out of the car he will say, 'get my keys off the entrance way table and unlock the car and open the back door on the drivers side and get out that bright orange gym bag and then shut the doors and lock them and bring the bag in to me.' You probably think I am exaggerating. I'm not. I will stop him mid- instruction and say, 'I can manage the details. Thanks!'

[j.griff]

LOL,what a habit. I pesonally am so SICK of hearing my own voice, and I loathe giving such instructions. <sigh>.

[Crissy]

My dh gives me detailed instructions. Drives me batty. For instance if he wants me to get his gym bag out of the car he will say, 'get my keys off the entrance way table and unlock the car and open the back door on the drivers side and get out that bright orange gym bag and then shut the doors and lock them and bring the bag in to me.' You probably think I am exaggerating. I'm not. I will stop him mid- instruction and say, 'I can manage the details. Thanks!'

Golly, that would drive me Bonkers! :001_huh:

[Jean in Newcastle]

One of our favorite sayings is "I'm not as stupid as I look".

I used to say this to MY mom when I was a teen. Her comeback was, "I never said you LOOK stupid!" :tongue_smilie:

[Mom2legomaniacs]

Sometimes I swear one of mine is playing "dumb" so we have said "Ds, I know you are not stupid. You are smart. So, ....." And we have said to them, "Do you actually think we are that stupid?" Yeah, confession time. Thankfully, they don't think we are that stupid, yet.

[Joanne]

I've let a similar sentiment escape these lips:

"What were you thinking??!!??"

[Jean in Newcastle]

Oh, and when my dd was a baby (say 6 to 9 months old) she would often play dumb about stuff - stuff I knew that she understood quite well. I got some shocked looks in the grocery store when people heard me say to her "Don't play that "dumb baby" game with me!" But they would be even more shocked when she'd stop the baby thing she was doing and would "straighten up"!

Sometimes kids are smarter than we give them credit for.
But often they are the other way. . . (sigh).

[DIY-DY]

Do you ever wish you could say to your child... "are you Really That Stupid?!?!?!?"

DS7, just yesterday, slipped into the house (I'd shoo'd them all outside so I could recover the couch - had fabric and templates all over the living/dining area floor, and can't handle any more mud - oh, if only it'd been only mud). He heads straight for the bathroom. Faucet runs.

Suddenly, he comes BOLTING out of the bathroom, hands over his mouth, flying down the hall, spewing puke *everywhere* along the way!

He leaps my diaper bag, runs straight down the fabric I have laid out to cut (spewing the *whole way*), bounds off the naked couch cushion, hits the kitchen and... pauses before the sink, in deliberation: the empty side, or the one with dishes in it? (He picked the one w/ dishes, of course. Evidently, the trash can simply wasn't an option.)

I'm kneeling on the floor, watching this all in slow-motion, yelling, "No! Stop! What are you doing? Go back! GOOOOOOOOBAAAAAAACK!" To no avail.

When I stopped stuttering and could breathe, I asked, "WHAT were you thinking?" He looked at me and said, "The drain in the bathroom sink is too small." I looked back at the human eruption equivalent of Mt. Vesuvius - the hallway, my bag, my couch, my foam couch cushions... and wanted. to. cry.

To make it just a little more interesting, the whole reason he'd thrown up was because after lunch he went out and rode his bike for a while, got nice and heated up, then ATE a handful of rock salt :confused: DH had left on the porch. Well, that made him thirsty, so he'd slipped inside to guzzle water From. The. Faucet.

Just so ya know, that'll make you sick! (Who knew?)

[brehon]

DIY-DY, that was hysterical! It really is akin to my ds6 passing by no fewer than three (that's 3!!) bathrooms to come in our bedroom and vomit all over me and the bed. And I leave the lights on low in the bathroom closest to the kids' bedrooms specifically for those middle of the night trips. He wasn't sick, either; he'd found the candy stash and helped himself to "just a couple" of candies right before bed.

[M&M]

Oh. my. GOODNESS!! How did you manage to clean that up?!!

Dd6 sends her sympathies!!

[Mom2legomaniacs]

DS7, just yesterday, slipped into the house (I'd shoo'd them all outside so I could recover the couch - had fabric and templates all over the living/dining area floor, and can't handle any more mud - oh, if only it'd been only mud). He heads straight for the bathroom. Faucet runs.

Suddenly, he comes BOLTING out of the bathroom, hands over his mouth, flying down the hall, spewing puke *everywhere* along the way!

He leaps my diaper bag, runs straight down the fabric I have laid out to cut (spewing the *whole way*), bounds off the naked couch cushion, hits the kitchen and... pauses before the sink, in deliberation: the empty side, or the one with dishes in it? (He picked the one w/ dishes, of course. Evidently, the trash can simply wasn't an option.)

I'm kneeling on the floor, watching this all in slow-motion, yelling, "No! Stop! What are you doing? Go back! GOOOOOOOOBAAAAAAACK!" To no avail.

When I stopped stuttering and could breathe, I asked, "WHAT were you thinking?" He looked at me and said, "The drain in the bathroom sink is too small." I looked back at the human eruption equivalent of Mt. Vesuvius - the hallway, my bag, my couch, my foam couch cushions... and wanted. to. cry.

To make it just a little more interesting, the whole reason he'd thrown up was because after lunch he went out and rode his bike for a while, got nice and heated up, then ATE a handful of rock salt :confused: DH had left on the porch. Well, that made him thirsty, so he'd slipped inside to guzzle water From. The. Faucet.

Just so ya know, that'll make you sick! (Who knew?)


Oh Dy, I am so sorry, but I am ROFL at this story. I know it is not funny, but oh my golly, it is SO funny! Sorry for laughing so hard at your misfortune, really I am. :lol: