me: duke! come downstairs and grab this stuff and put it away!!!
me to the lortr: you always think it will be years away that your precious baby starts carrying around an altoids tin
lotr: no doubt, with a knife that from far away looks suspiciously like a lighter
i feel old and jaded.
or maybe i just miss my youth. and the good old days when you didn't have to worry that the altoids tin and lighter might belong to your kid.
though, for the record, i never carried an altoids tin or a lighter.
and for the record, the duke has that altoids tin full of altoids until they are gone. then he's going to use the tin to make a pocket flashlight that he read about.
though i joke about it now, in a few short years little signs and clues would be just that. signs and clues that it isn't time to joke.
and i am under no illusion that any kid is immune to the temptations of the world and the tide of their friends choices.
the trick, at least i think it still is, is to keep an open mind and an open heart and an open ear.
listen first, lecture last.
that's my plan and i'm stickin' to it.
x.
1 comment:
That's always been my plan too- let's see if we can stick to it.
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