Brag about your kids here!

[Greg]

Sounds like a young man who eats with enthusiasm.

Yes, he is. He's kind of a serious little guy thus far, but he seems to be happiest when he's being bathed. I'm really looking forward to when he's old enough to do stuff with. I decided that the CJ-5 in the backyard that I'd been saving for some indeterminate future project will be his. It'll give him something to learn mechanics on, that's hard to screw up, and will keep his mitts off my MG until he's had the chance to get some skills. And if he's so inclined, he's going to have some real opportunities to learn stuff, since his dad's a mechanic, his grandpa (maternal) is a machinist and shipwright, and his uncles are an engineer and an architect. AlaskaTRX is already salivating at the prospect of having a fly fishing and fly tying apprentice with hands that are small enough to tie all of the micro sized flies that he used to be able to tie when he was younger before his hands got too big.

That sounds so damn cool. I wish I'd had such skilled and knowledgeable relatives to teach me stuff, growing up.

[Termite]

And if he's so inclined, he's going to have some real opportunities to learn stuff, since his dad's a mechanic, his grandpa (maternal) is a machinist and shipwright, and his uncles are an engineer and an architect.

As the father of a mechanically-inclined son, let me give you some important advise: buy him his own tools........ in self defense. Otherwise, if he is like 97% of mechanically inclined boys, you will constantly be looking for YOUR tools.

[blackeagle603]

...or he may be ambivalent about repairing/building things -- or worse yet a musician.

[Netpackrat]

As the father of a mechanically-inclined son, let me give you some important advise: buy him his own tools........ in self defense. Otherwise, if he is like 97% of mechanically inclined boys, you will constantly be looking for YOUR tools.

In this regard, I intend to learn from my dad's experience. Though he did eventually get most of his tools back.

...or he may be ambivalent about repairing/building things -- or worse yet a musician.

Anything's possible. What I really want to avoid is one of my father in law's biggest regrets with his own son (the architect), whereby he never gave him the opportunity. And now my brother in law probably couldn't even change his own oil if he had to.

[Aglifter]

As a less-mechanically talented brother of an exceptionally gifted man - part of the problem is that you never get to do anything mechanical.

My little brother was always superbly gifted at machinery, whereas I have to think my way through it. (I can still work on them - farm boys don't ever grow up completely inept).

The smartest thing Dad did for my brother was give him the hulk of an LRII he wanted for his 12th birthday - Little Brother was the only one who worked on it*, after the first year, and he stripped it to the frame, and rebuilt it.

*aside from the paint and upholstery, and I think some of the welding when he was young.

[TabascoKid]

My 7th grade daughter took the SAT in December as part of the Duke Talent Identification Program. Scored above the median scores for high-school seniors.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You must be doing something right!!

Thanks! She's also asked for a pistol for her 13th b-day. She's fallen in love with the Sig Sauer P238 Rainbow Titanium .380. Fell. In. Love. She saw it at a gun show and it bumped out the riot gun she wanted ever since she saw the scene in "Joyful Noise" where Parton comes home to see someone broke into the house and fetches her shotgun from the china cabinet.

[Mud_Dog]

I'm starting to think I should have named my son Ralph....

None have claimed I'm there Daddy, still waiting on my youth to come back on me so I'm going with no kids to brag about. [/quoterr
Same here. So far as I know, I don't have any offspring. Can't rule it out completely, but the odds are very much against it.

Same here, although there was that compolsive liar that told me I had twins on the way several years back, stupid bitch.

[FastRope71]

I've got 5 good solid healthy and happy kids. They know how to smile and laugh. They know when to avoid Dad like the black plague. They know how to make me proud, cause they do it all the time. Each one is totally unique. Not a pair in the entire group. Makes it kinda hard to gain any traction on a family activity.

To quote a farmer in Wisconsin whose computer I fixed: " I wouldn't take a million dollars for any one of them, I also wouldn't give you a wooden nickel for another."

[Jericho941]

[Netpackrat]

There's probably a box around here somewhere, with a picture of me as a baby in the same truck. He really likes to ride in his grandma and grandpa's truck.