Comments on: To all those parents whose kids are getting ready for college

By: Corky

Corky — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:42:31 +0000

To all you folks that answered the post from Carly, her grandfather and I knew that she was going to be a “say it like it is genius” when we walked into the condo at Lake Tahoe (we planned to have a week’s vacation with Conrad and family until Joe screwed it up by having a heart attack) and she stopped eating her “ogurt” long enough to say, “Grandma Corky, go home!” She was 20 months old at the time and has been going strong ever since. Her parents have good reason to be proud of her! Papa Joe gave her a harmonica when she was 4 years old and she promptly learned to make real music on it. She has much to learn and our only problem with that is that we probably won’t be around to watch her do the biggest part of it. Being old ain’t for sissies but it sure is fun to brag about your grandkids……and for those of you that have ever “in the good old days” read SMILING JACK in the comics, don’t let the buttons fly very far or the chicken will get them!
Happy Thanksgiving to y’all, Mom

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:15:09 +0000

Mike, I look forward to your comments every day. I’m being ornery and silly about this because I was sitting across the room when she wrote it. I would never act this way with someone else’s kid. I’m just countering the tendency for my buttons to pop off my shirt at unexpected moments.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Mike!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:35:33 +0000

Truthfully this is a great perspective—I don’t want to make lite of her effort, in fact it was very well written.
I for one would like to see more of this type of post. As a baby boomer I feel very far removed from perspectives other than my own.

Happy Thanksgiving

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:45:07 +0000

Hold the presses! I just realized that my Mom reads this blog and the comments! Just kidding, Ma! You guys were the perfect parents.

By: wwds

wwds — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:37:38 +0000

I must admit to attending practices as well as games.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:02:34 +0000

Why, reading between the lines, it seems to me that these parents are practically perfect, MARVELOUS in every way! Why, when I was a boy, working three jobs to afford shoes so I wouldn’t need to walk to school barefoot in the snow, we would have paid good money to have a set of parents like these people must be.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:50:27 +0000

I resemble this helicopter parent—–but in my defense I so enjoy the hovering.
Good post GL——-but please don’t cheat me out of my fun…I only get one more time to be the wanna be cool dad.
My daughter already thinks I should be on Dateline “to catch a predator” because I have a facebook account.