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"I'd Help Them...I'd Wipe Their Tears"

Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Last night my daughter had a bugbite on her arm and I put some calamine lotion, gauze, bandaids on it. She was in a bit of pain, and claimed it hurt to bend her arm. After a minute she bends it and starts whimpering because her bandaid became loose.

She then began to overdo it a bit with the pain aspect. I told her that there are some kids in the world who only have one arm and she should feel lucky she has two...and there are even some kids in world who don't have any arms at all...and there are even some kids in the world who don't have any arms, legs, toys, beds, houses even. I'd given her the toys and beds bit before, but the arms and legs bit she'd never heard.

Then I said, can you imagine a little girl or boy who doesn't have any arms who feels sad and starts to cry? How would they wipe their tears away? Who's going to do that for them? She lost it at that point as only an emotional 7 year old would and blurted out with spit, tears, and snots flying "I'd help them!!! I'd wipe their tears!!!"

hugs, kisses, more hugs...

Gotta love getting through to kids.

She's even a casual PJ fan. :)

Today her booboo was gone.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    She's a really decent human being. :)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Awwwww! That warms the heart :) Thanks for sharing.
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  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    She's a really decent human being. :)

    thanks mark - she truly is
    I love to turn you on
  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    The stuff young kids come out with is awesome. So truthful and innocent. It's nice to see kids running around playing. They haven't been corrupted or jaded by the bullshit that goes on in this world.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    She's a really decent human being. :)

    And what a great father you are.
    This is a great story.
    Your daughter is precious.
    Children rock.


    btw, do you wanna adopt a 35 year old kid-dude-guy?
    i am potty trained and i go to school without skipping class.

    come on..paleez..my bags are already packed..fuck dude..what's taking you so long?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    chadwick wrote:
    And what a great father you are.
    This is a great story.
    Your daughter is precious.
    Children rock.


    btw, do you wanna adopt a 35 year old kid-dude-guy?
    i am potty trained and i go to school without skipping class.

    come on..paleez..my bags are already packed..fuck dude..what's taking you so long?

    No way dude - you'd raid my beer fridge!!! ;)
    I love to turn you on
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    No way dude - you'd raid my beer fridge!!! ;)

    dude, maybe your GREEN fridge not your BEER fridge.
    i guess i'll unpack my fucking bags :(
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • dawngdawng Posts: 644
    aw, how adorable :) love the innocence of youth!
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i wish we could all think like a child....the matter-of-fact innocence is just what this world needs.....:o

    you're a damn good father steve....:)
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    chadwick wrote:
    dude, maybe your GREEN fridge not your BEER fridge.
    i guess i'll unpack my fucking bags :(

    haha - there's always a room for pj fans!
    I love to turn you on
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    cutback wrote:
    i wish we could all think like a child....the matter-of-fact innocence is just what this world needs.....:o

    you're a damn good father steve....:)


    which is exactly why he just adopt me :D
    he's a damn good daddy this steve character..
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    thanks cut and all...

    now...should I take her to mansfield 2???



    j/k :D
    I love to turn you on
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    thanks cut and all...

    now...should I take her to mansfield 2???



    j/k :D


    mansfield II = ?
    im guessing this is a movie, yes?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    chadwick wrote:
    mansfield II = ?
    im guessing this is a movie, yes?

    uh, yes :D it's the sequel to mansfield 1!!!
    I love to turn you on
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    You're a good daddy...it shows in your kids! :) That's sweet, brought a little tear to my eyes.
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  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    Last night my daughter had a bugbite on her arm and I put some calamine lotion, gauze, bandaids on it. She was in a bit of pain, and claimed it hurt to bend her arm. After a minute she bends it and starts whimpering because her bandaid became loose.

    She then began to overdo it a bit with the pain aspect. I told her that there are some kids in the world who only have one arm and she should feel lucky she has two...and there are even some kids in world who don't have any arms at all...and there are even some kids in the world who don't have any arms, legs, toys, beds, houses even. I'd given her the toys and beds bit before, but the arms and legs bit she'd never heard.

    Then I said, can you imagine a little girl or boy who doesn't have any arms who feels sad and starts to cry? How would they wipe their tears away? Who's going to do that for them? She lost it at that point as only an emotional 7 year old would and blurted out with spit, tears, and snots flying "I'd help them!!! I'd wipe their tears!!!"

    hugs, kisses, more hugs...

    Gotta love getting through to kids.

    She's even a casual PJ fan. :)

    Today her booboo was gone.
    there is hope for the future! :)

    good kid ya got there.
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Nice job traumatizing your 7 year old....lol.

    "You know kids with stumps have to wipe their tears with just stumps."
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    Nice job traumatizing your 7 year old....lol.

    "You know kids with stumps have to wipe their tears with just stumps."

    I didn't say it but yeah................. ;)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    Nice job traumatizing your 7 year old....lol.

    "You know kids with stumps have to wipe their tears with just stumps."

    I know right! As soon as she burst out crying like that I felt like such an ass. But she got the point. I was soaked in her tears and boogers. As you know...the life of a parent...
    I love to turn you on
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Kids are awesome, every moment with my son is treasured even when he is being difficult, or whatever he is the most special person in my life and I look back on those difficult moments with tainted eyes, I think he is the one thing what keeps me sane at the moment.:)

    That's a lovely read Steve you're daughter sounds awesome.
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    You're little girl sounds adorable. Sometimes kids the say the sweetest, most innocent things. She sounds like she is going to grow up to be caring and helping.

    Good parents = good children :)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    Then I said, can you imagine a little girl or boy who doesn't have any arms who feels sad and starts to cry?

    in that situation i've taught my kids to say "dont be so sad... one day you could be in a Def Leppard tribute band" ;)


    fantastic story Steve.. :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    in that situation i've taught my kids to say "dont be so sad... one day you could be in a Def Leppard tribute band" ;)


    fantastic story Steve.. :)
    Geez, now I feel like crap...that made me smirk.
    A friend of mine is still convinced it is tied behind his back.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Geez, now I feel like crap...that made me smirk.
    A friend of mine is still convinced it is tied behind his back.


    yeah.. like the freaky serial murdering skin collector guy from Silence of the Lambs!!! :eek:

    oh.. you mean his arm ;):D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    in that situation i've taught my kids to say "dont be so sad... one day you could be in a Def Leppard tribute band" ;)


    fantastic story Steve.. :)


    Don't you ever disrespect Def Leppard man, you hear me ?



    Oh, cute story Steve, really lovely :o
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    yeah.. like the freaky serial murdering skin collector guy from Silence of the Lambs!!! :eek:

    oh.. you mean his arm ;):D
    You are too much. :)
    Skin collector guy. :p
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    jamie uk wrote:
    Don't you ever disrespect Def Leppard man, you hear me ?



    Oh, cute story Steve, really lovely :o


    i dont have to disrespect them... "pour some sugar on me" is disrespectful enough without me adding to it ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    i dont have to disrespect them... "pour some sugar on me" is disrespectful enough without me adding to it ;)
    Quit derailing with your nonsense.
    That song is awesome.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    i dont have to disrespect them... "pour some sugar on me" is disrespectful enough without me adding to it ;)

    Just cos you been drinking at The Slaughtered Lamb all week, you think you're all tough ;)
    I'll have you know I was once injured whilst crowd surfing at a Def Leppard concert :D They had their 'rad days'...Jeez, I bet even Jack White :rolleyes: likes Pyromania !!!!
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    jamie uk wrote:
    Jeez, I bet even Jack White :rolleyes: likes Pyromania !!!!


    thanks for the laughs ;):D


    ok sorry Steve.. great thread :):)

    nice to see some happy stuff going around in the world!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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