Honey, I blew it again
 

Tonight I told my young son, "I'm so happy that you are a big guy now."

He looked up at me sadly, tears welling in his eyes and said, "You were not happy when I was a baby?"

*SIGH*...Is there ANYTHING that I can't fuck up? Anything at all?

He just took it wrong. As long as he is talked to and understands you didn't mean it that way. You didnt' fuck up. Just tell him you're so proud he's on his way to becoming a man like his daddy and you loved him as a baby just as much.

heh, kids are so funny :) Like holo said, just be sure to explain what you meant and that you loved him just as much when he was little too. Kids are pretty smart if you're just open with them :)

Heh. Lifelong emotional scarring is so funny! :D

Kids are great. That's why I don't want any. I'm going to be an unkle in a few months and I can't wait to have a new little brain to play with!

Uh oh, I can just imagine what ratbastid will do to his nephew's poor little brain. ;)

clavus, don't worry about it... your kid still loves ya.

I love how children are able to think so differently than the set patterns that adults do. You can gain so much from the fresh responses they give you. :D

just cuff him on the ear and say "take the damned compliment, son!" :)

Just do what any self-respecting parent would do in your situation. Go out and buy your son a $50,000 SUV.:lol:

Sigh, if it's not siblings asking "Which one of us do you love the most?" it's a single child asking "Did you love me the most before or now?"

*sprays water all over his keyboard*

Thats how I am going to phrase it next time someone asks me why I don't have kids.

Really, that's a very insensitve thing to say. For your information, I sat him down and had a little father-son chat. It went something lie this -

Look, kid. When you were a baby, you were nursing. And because you were nursing, your mom had HUGE, FIRM tits. So of course I was happy. I'm a tit-man, forchristsakes. I was fucking exstatic.

It's important to recognize these "teaching opportunities" and use them.

clavus that is just too funny. I have 2 little ones and I just laugh whenever a comment like that is made. Its interestign to see how they interpret things.

Just remember you haven't done any damage that candy, ice cream or pizza can't fix.

Kids are a constant source of fun and stress. You just never know what is going to happen. Good story.

heh. problem solved :)

You just never know how kids are going to take things. I've been student teaching -- I want to teach lower-grades, 1-3, but in this program they start you out for a few weeks in the grades you don't want, for experience. So I was in a fifth grade class for a couple of months. I let slip that I really wanted to teach younger kids, and it was a huge problem. The fifth graders took it personally, some of them, thought I didn't like them. Caused no end of trouble. I sure learned a lesson.