I cant believe it

huronbreeze · MAD DOG!

I cant believe it

Shadow · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Time flys doesn't it?Hey Huron I thought you said you were old?You couldnt be too old with a child thats nine,well I guess you could be. Enjoy your summer!!!

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

They grow up so fast, don't they?? Judd's graduation ceremony from 8th to 9th grade was so cute! Ty's will be next year. David graduation is the big one this year. He has been done with school for a few days and he says he already misses it! lol

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Mine are still in school for a few more weeks, Enjoy the fact your kids ask permission still, As they get older they just forget about asking and do it. This is what my son surprises me with,

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

OMG!!!! How does that stay up like that??!@! lol Is the school system ok with that? Our country-fied school would send him home! lol He is cute though! Good for being different! But I would freak if mine came home like that!! lol

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

I can't wait until Kaitlyn gets that age.

tysonthebulldogissocute · 11:12 AM, 05/25/05

I think the self expression is good for children. I dont have children so what do I know but I think that Mohawk is great. Good for him for being confident enough to express.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

The school is fine with the hair style. Lots of aqua net is what he uses. I can hear him coming thru our place too, with all the clink clink of metal belts studs and all. One day he will outgrow it. He has a band that he plays guitar in too.

MollieMae01 · Moderator

Wow, Puttin, he and my hubby should be best friends!!! I just did a mohawk on him a few weeks ago, it wasn't quite as long as your son's but it was about 4". I scalped the rest though. He loved it. He has since grown tired of it in the past few weeks and we resorted to shaving his whole head. I wish I'd have taken a pic of him with it though. Then you could see what it looked like on someone else!! LOL. He also used to wear the chains and big baggy pants that looked like a dress and, before he met me, he used to wear eyeliner and black lipstick and black nail polish. He has also had his hair every color under the sun as well. Hair and clothes I dont' mind, they can change, but he did do a lot of stupid tattoos that won't be able to change though. {{{{shrug}}}} whatever

Heffanator · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Omg, he has the coolest hair! ha!! My boyfriend used to dye his hair every color under the sun when we were in 8th-9th grade, Yellow, purple, maroon, blue. He wore black clothes and baggy pants then, too. That was 4-5 years ago thoigh. He turned into a normal looking guy before we started dating.

Speaking of eyeliner and nail polish, I painted Matt's toes the other day! He just came out and said "Paint my toes red!" On one foot, I did every other toe red, and on the other I painted every other toe blue, except for the pinky toe, I painted that one pink. He came over in sandles yesterday and I said "You feel pretty confortable with your toes now, huh?" ha!! He wants to leave it and see how long it will stay. He let my friend and I put makeup on him for halloween one year, he just doesn't give a damn. ha

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Actully my sons hair is probably twice as long as it is in that picture. I did not have a good picture. Here is my son standing in the shower putting up a friends hair. This picture was taken a couple months ago, so his hair now probably as long as the kids that he's helping put the hair up.

-- Edited by puttin510 at 12:37, 2005-05-25

dusty082155 · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

the only restrictions i put on my kids is no drinkinf and drugging,and respect me as a parent.i let them be themselves, whoever they choose to be.my cousins daughter has always wanted to be a boy and her parents forced her to wear girly stuff and never encouraged her with her sports. she loved playing baseball and soccer.i went to her games and was always there for her to talk to.she was always miserable.when she was eight years old, she told told me that she had been thinking of ways to take her own life. i went straight to my cousin and had a long talk with her and told her that she was going to end up losing her daughter to suicide for forcing her to live in such misery ,making her be someone she wasnt meant to be. and that she was serious about wanting to die ! i guess i "woke her up" because they let her cut and spike her hair and buy boy clothes and just be herself. the change in her attitude was dramatic. she is now nineteen ,still gay, and a totally happy ,loving ,kind person.and i love her like she was my own. her parents have finally come around and accept her and realize their pig-headed way of thinking almost cost their daughter her life. so please people let your kids just be themselves, as long as they are not into drinking and drugs ,we as parents need to step back and let them discover who they are and accept them for it.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Thats how I feel too Dusty. Thank goodness your neice has you.

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Puttin, I love his hair. I rememebr after I graduated I dyed my hair a violet purple with some black highlights. My mom almost died when I came home but she got used to it. My hair was even dark blue for a week before I went bright flaming red. I loved going places with my mother because sometimes she would walk a step in front of me. LOL!!!!!

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

I like that dark blue black color. I brought my son with me to this mexican grocery store, because the meat guy was acting strange to me, touched my hand when i took my meat from him, and on the way out to my car he liked his chops looking at me, Yuck. Reminded me of Peppy la peeU. How ever you spell it. Or the french guy from the old Pink Panther movies. LOL So I brought my big boy with me. He did not EVEN try to make eye contact with me this time. LOL I think he got the picture. LOL

huronbreeze · MAD DOG!

I have just gotten home from my oldest big evening..It was wonderful..She looked beautiful...She had a new dress and shoes..and had her hair done in an updo...and the hair dresser put white rose buds in it and some glitter junk..(it is all the rage with the kids here now..lol) and then we came home and she got dressed and then we trekked back to to town and picked up my youngest and went to the school for the reception. I got her a wrist coursage and it had white rose buds in it too..she looked so nice..I took lots of pics. She had a good time at her dance from 7pm to 9. An older couple came to see her graduate too and we went to dinner while Angie was at her dance...She was just beaming ...I am so proud of my baby....I too believe in leting kids express them selves with there looks and clothes..I let her join all the functions and sports that she choses that we can do. We live a distance from school and it can be a pain going back and forth.

Shadow..I am old..I am 45 soon to be 46 in September..I had my kids when I was older and believe me...I know why God intended kids to be born when your young...you have more patience with and for them...I have Angie who is almost 14 and Becky who is 9. I am luck and blessed they are good girls...But I have the teen years ahead...lol..

Puttin..Good old aqua net..that will hold up to a hurricane...lol...

Denise · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

Huron, I'm so glad your daughter had a great time at her first night-time dance! I can just imagine how excited she was. You'll have to post some pics so we can see how beautiful she looked!

Puttin, I agree 100%. Hairstyle, clothes, and things of that nature do not make the kid. I have always been a firm believer in that we, as parents, have to pick our battles and as long as what they are doing does not hurt themselves and or others and is respectful, it is basically AOK. We may not personally think it is great but they do & we have to allow them to be themselves in order for them to be happy and confident. Each generation along the years has expressed themselves some way or other that their parents haven't been exactly thrilled with. I think it is funny when years later when they have reached adulthood the discussion comes up of what they thought was "in" and the pics come out and you hear their groans!

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Yeah Huron upload those pictures. I would have loved to be dotted on like that as a kid, I walked to my middle school grad day all by myself. So I hope she cherishes these memories of that day.

Denise, my kids hate when I take picture,but they are always wanting to see them though.

huronbreeze · MAD DOG!

Thanks Puttin and Denise..I dont know if i dare post my childs pic on here..if some one attacked her in an attempt to get at me i would just snap and catch fire...so..I think ill wait on that...it a shame huh??? I sincerly hope that she can look back when she is in her 40's and cherrish her school days..i tell her stories from my past..how we didnt have stuff like that and because i was with drawn and shy ( can you believe it..lol) in school and didnt belong to the jocks or the freaks...I felt out of place.I didnt even attend my one commencments....and I want my kids as most parents do to have the best...I try very hard to give all i can afford to mine and let them do as many sports or drama or extracaricular activities they can...I want her to look back at her school years as the best years..because face it after school real life grabs hold of you and therer isnt all the time to be giddy and play games and sleep in till noon...Jobs eat away at our lives and if we have no joy there is not a good life just existance. I hope that i do the right things with my children...I can only hope..I have great role models to model my self to or from...and some I want to be the furthes thing from them as I can...I think my kids appreciate what I try to do..even though they might not say so..out loud...I think walking up to you and geting an unsuspected kiss is thanks enough...I am a proud mother...can you tell...Thanks for allowing me to gush...

MyPoundPuppies · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

I bet she looked adorable! How fun!

My Judd is more of a "prep" I guess....and Ty is border lining the skater "punk". He wants to grow is hair long, but his hair is so wierd....it does what it wants. I don't think he would be happy with it. I am guilty of making him keep it shorter. Also, our school is zero tolerance and he has already had his share of trouble with teachers because he is mouthy. I would give him more freedom if he could keep his act together, but I am afraid he would really be targeted if he made himself stand out. As I said before it is a small school and these kids are watched like a hawk.

He plays drums and just got an electric guitar. Already the grandparents are freaking out about him being a band freak??!! Whatever! He sat down at the drums, no lessons, and literally sounded like he has been playing for years, once they heard him play they started encouraging him. There is no point in denying a true talent. Bottom line he is good and luckily I have talked him into being in the school band. He said he didn't want to be a nerd, but I talked to him about how much he would learn over the next 5 years about drums and now he is excited about it. I don't force them to do anything, but I do try to talk some sense into them! lol

They both are naturals at golf, my parents are golfers. They take them on all kinds of vacations to play. I never had that luxury as a kid to spend quality time with grandparents so I always let them go and they get to see many new places. I coldn't afford to keep them both active in golf, it is exspensive. My boys have clubs that cost more than our oldest sons car!!!! lol Thank god for grandparents!

I, too, try to keep them involved with school as much as possible. I think it is healthy for them.

wow...I am in a babbling mood today! lol