"You wanna beer?"
"It's 7 o'clock in the morning!"
". . . Scotch?"
Mr. Mom
Ann Althouse links to last week's WSJ article about the different parenting style of a stay-at-home dad: less process, more results. Less empathy and sharing, more self-control and perseverance. I liked this Althouse commenter's impression of Dad's first question to Junior in the morning:
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So the first lesson for Junior is that he will usually make it through these trials in more-or-less one piece.
The second lesson is that, most of the time when the first rule fails, it will be a learning experience that will make Junior grow stronger.
The third lesson is about knives, the fourth about guns, and the very last lesson of all is about girls. That is to say that the lessons increase in danger on a logarithmic scale.
Indeed!
I also liked the comment to the WSJ article from someone who'd grown up in the country and said, "You city people amuse me." Their stories were about the triumph of allowing little Taylor to fall in a puddle without freaking out and buying him a new outfit. He started driving the tractor when he was nine. He described how often he'd begged to be allowed to use the chainsaw, with the stern reply "Not till you're 12."
My husband says that when he and his brother were small and their parents took them out to the country, they were handed a pile of whatever firearms were handy and told to go amuse themselves for the rest of the day. "But don't shoot any girls. They're dangerous when wounded." I made that last part up.
He described how often he'd begged to be allowed to use the chainsaw...
Hah! I've heard that myself.
You have to understand- it actually would be quite unsafe to give a city kid a chainsaw, probably even at 15, as they've not ever held anything close to that dangerous or having that much responsibility. You do have to walk before you can run...
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