Discuss: moments

1- Julie on June 25 2008

If it makes you feel any better, I often feel that way when conversing with my 4-year-old. What does that say about me?

2- Anstey on June 25 2008

Most likely your kids aren't retarded like mine.

3- Colleen on June 25 2008

wow.. your kids talk to you?? amazing!

my boys have grown tired of explaining things to me so now they just nod and grunt in my general direction every now and then.

4- Laurie on June 25 2008

I do think you had a bit of responsibility for the way they turned out! I always look at how beautiful, confident and capable my daughter is and hope she got at least a little of it from me!

5- Anstey on June 25 2008

My kids get all their best traits from Ellen. She's the brains of our operation. Also the looks part. Hmm.. and the soul part. My part is the comicbook part.

6- Norm on June 25 2008

There's no way in hell that I deserve the three wonderful boys I have. Even being married to my wife doesn't account for it. Somewhere three families are wondering what happened.

7- Anstey on June 25 2008

I assumed that having a beautiful amazing, smart, indepedent, successful confident daughter was God punishing me.

8- Mosquitobyte on June 25 2008

I choose not to have children, there's enough morons in the world already and it would only disappoint me if they turned out to be like the other morons.

Think of the money one saves without children! My mind is blown by those who have children.....why...why....for the love of your spurious deity, why?

My kids have already made life better for a number of people, so it seems to have been a good gamble. Granted, it's a roll of the dice to have kids, but it's a roll of the dice to get up every day. Besides, after Vietnam, they are the only things who have kept me from giving up entirely. Having children is not for everybody, but they have been the best three blessings that have ever happened to me.

10- Anstey on June 25 2008

I think Norn nailed it - the joy is watching my kids be so much more than I could ever dream to be. Watching them make other lives better. Watching the joy they bring to everyone around them. Watching them lead their friends to be happier, smarter, stronger better than they imagined they could be. Watching them love and live and inspire. They are the best dreams I could have ever dreamt.

11- Tracey on June 26 2008

I am a much better person for having had children; I can't imagine any other people or situations that could have had the positive impact on me that they've had.

They also knock me out with their know-how, and the way they are so self-possessed and mature (especially my daughter). In their own ways I can see that more often than not, they leave whatever they touch better than they found it.