Life's lessons.

[lloyd3]

Having a dog means picking up poop. The snow has finally departed here (probably only temporarily) but it has fully revealed the ministrations of the family pooch on the font yard.  Not a job anybody likes to do, but not so bad when multiple people are helping.  I asked my 11-year old (well, I told him) that we'd be doing poop-duty this AM.  The teenage years must be getting close because the theatrics were endless.  I let it all die down and told him to go get dressed again, more drama.  OK.....I pulled on my work pants and grabbed a bucket and some heavy rubber gloves and went to work.  Took about 45-minutes to do a pretty thorough job and it stated to warm up nicely while I was doing it.  This inspired me, because I had some errands to run later. Opened the garage, pulled the cover, used the starter to get her out of the garage, gave her a slug of gas in the carb, put the air cleaner back on, and fired her up.  Now the wailing really begins, because he wants to go too.  Sorry son, maybe next time I ask you for a little help, you'll be more accommodating.  No work means no play around this house.

[bull]

Oh yeah, the stalling, whining and excuses always take longer to get through than it would have taken to do the actual job they were told to do. And if/when they finally get going the breaks and foot-dragging turns a 20 minute task into a 2-hour ordeal.

[polywideblock]

   actions and consequences   ,their never to young to start learning     

[bill440rt]

What timing. Had a similar scenario here as well.
Asked my 10-year old to help me in the garage on the Charger (just needed a pumper to help bleed the brakes). He had no idea what I was even going to ask him to do. Finally, after the dust settled from arguing about it he came out I explained to him the process and he got to sit behind the wheel. Right then, his eyes lit up and not even halfway thru the first one he shouted "Dad, I love this! This is so cool!" That made my day. Even more so when my 5-year old came out and said he wanted to help too. Keep in mind my sons almost NEVER want to help in the garage. It's frustrating sometimes, I can relate lloyd3.
They got a little something special after that. I made sure to tell them a good deed does not go unnoticed.

[Patronus]

Reckon I picked up plenty of poop in my day, glad some things never end.

[polywideblock]

the difference between then and now is I bet there's no-one going to give them a "thick ear"( upside the head )  for answering back to your elders   

[XH29N0G]

I let em use the lawn mower.  The attraction of power tools and flying poop never ceases to please my kids.

[Lord Warlock]

Get used to it, kids will act like that more and more as they get closer to mid teens.  If you can get them interested in something it helps.  Tried to teach my daughters about cars and they would sit thru the explanations but hardly ever question anything like I did when I was helping with my dad.   If I'd been told to go do this job as a kid I would have gone out and did it without argument, it was part of the price of having a dog, along with daily feeding and brushing twice a week, my kids...wouldn't pick off a turd if it was hanging off their tail...instead they'd loudly announce it and quickly exit the room leaving it in our hands to clean it off and maybe bathe the dog.  The dogs however get even with the kids, by crapping in their bathroom at night leaving a minefield to walk thru...both dogs are housebroken, but one keeps leaving surprises in the kids bathroom  when the kids come home, when they are gone he goes out back where it belongs.

I got the older daughter to mow the yard by letting her play with the power mower...the type you push or let pull you around yard, she liked the 10 bucks we'd pay for it, and did it for last three years she lived at home.  Younger daughter refused to mow, figured it was beneath her, and since she had a job earning her own spending money, she didn't need our money...lol.  Even when I bought a riding mower she still wouldn't do the easy job of mowing...takes me about 30 minutes total just riding the mower around.  Prepared me for when both kids were gone and had to do it myself again...glad I got the riding mower. Now if only there was a button I could push and make a grass trimmer pop out the side of the mower instead of breaking out the weed whacker.

[myk]

 GOOD JOB LLOYD.  Someone needs to teach the youth of America, and maybe the adults as well, that things don't come to you in life just because you want them, these things have to be EARNED...

[Mopar Nut]

Kids nowadays have no respect.

[F8-4life]

Should have burned the tires to drive the point home lol.

[Wicked72]

What timing. Had a similar scenario here as well.
Asked my 10-year old to help me in the garage on the Charger (just needed a pumper to help bleed the brakes). He had no idea what I was even going to ask him to do. Finally, after the dust settled from arguing about it he came out I explained to him the process and he got to sit behind the wheel. Right then, his eyes lit up and not even halfway thru the first one he shouted "Dad, I love this! This is so cool!" That made my day. Even more so when my 5-year old came out and said he wanted to help too. Keep in mind my sons almost NEVER want to help in the garage. It's frustrating sometimes, I can relate lloyd3.
They got a little something special after that. I made sure to tell them a good deed does not go unnoticed.

I dream of this with my twin boys. They are 2 atm so its a short way away or at least thats how i feel about it   

[1965gp]

I was working on getting my 66 GTO running (Charger was at the shop) this past week. It was spring break and I took some time off work.

Both my daughters wanted to help. The 10 year old was interested in the car and why it wasn't running which was nice. My 6 yr old would walk out and say "what are you going to teach me today dad?" Every day. She was asking which parts were the motor and how hard it was to replace it, and did you have to replace all of it or just the pieces that are old and don't work anymore. I felt they were fairly serious questions from a 6 yr old girl.

It was a lot of fun when we all celebrated it running.

[lloyd3]

F8: I did launch it a bit hard when I got down to the main road. It had been sitting for 3-4 weeks and was stumbling a bit getting out of the development. There's a light and a hard right to merge with northbound traffic and the car squirmed around and crossed up a little until the tires started to bite.  There's a golf course right beside the highway and I noticed that I'd interrupted play for one or two folks who'd heard me open things up a bit. Silly.... but still fun.

[Stegs]

to the OP

I cant say much for a son/daughter as i have no kids


But i do have 2 labs, which in a way are just like kids


I too over the last couple weeks been picking up piles


Whats wierd is our 3.5 year old chocolate female will go whereever, but our 2 year old yellow male will run to the woods and go as far in as he can to poop




anyway, your not alone in the "poop" battle...i spent last night working in the yard picking up the last few pile that were buried and then i did some yard/landscape work