Don't I wish

[fancytalk]

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated. At work and school, you do best when you're organizing. When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic. Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management. You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

The Birth Order Predictor

I really should have been an only child. For some reason my parents brought home a real baby instead of the baby doll I wanted. Parent's just don't understand.

Comments

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

I think your mom and my mom went to the same parenting school because I heard that exact same response. I do believe that the "everybody's equal" game could work, but you have to stick to age and let it slide with the younger child.

The other thing that always got me was when little brother did something bad, he got the "you've been a bad boy" slap on the wrist. But if I did the exact same thing, I didnt' see daylight for weeks. Now that I think about it, I'm probably still grounded for a few things.

[yarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

I agree that the "everybody's equal" game can work if you stand by alotting certain privileges at certain ages. It didn't happen around our hous that way, though. I hate to say it (because overall, I think my parents were/are great parents), but I sometimes wonder if letting my brother do everything I did (but years earlier) was just a product of lazy parenting. Mom had Baby Brother right before she turned 40, so I wouldn't be surprised if, by the time she was 50 (and I was about to graduate from high school), she was ready for both her kids to be grown enough to take care of themselves.

And grounding! You just made me realize that, although I missed countless school events and birthday parties due to grounding (for what were mostly very trivial offenses), I can't ever remember my brother being banished to his room. And my groundings weren't usually less than 1-2 weeks in duration. Thank goodness for my Dad, because he was usually able to mitigate my sentence and get me out on "parole".

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

Now I'm convinced that your mom and my mom were sharing notes.

My mom had this thing about "back-talk". Of course what got me into the most trouble was asking "if you don't want me to back-talk then why do you keep asking me questions?" One time she gave me a choice - grounded for 2 weeks or write 1000 times "I will not talk back to my mother". After about 100 sentences I decided that it wasn't worth it. And you are right about daddies, they usually could work out a lighter sentence.

[yarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yep, that was it. I don't ever think I actually did anything "bad" - it was always the back-talk that got me in trouble. And I usually ran myself into the ground by calling my Mom on the fallacies in her argument. Too smart for my own good, I guess. If I ever have my own kids, I'll let them argue with their father. He was a CompSci major; he took all those logic classes!