Barrister's obnoxious thread full of smug parenting stories

Started by Barrister, May 17, 2012, 02:47:49 PM

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mongers

#120
June 12, 2012, 03:17:31 PM
 :thumbsup:

For the content of the thread, keep it coming.

And I say that as a definitive non-breeder.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Malthus

#121
June 12, 2012, 03:38:51 PM
My smug story for the day - Carl is getting quite good at playing the piano, and he has a recital on Thursday. He rather enjoys it. He can play many songs with reading the music as he goes, and at least three songs from memory.

Being Carl, he makes every practice into a full concert - he mimes collecting money from the audience (my wife and I), issues us tickets, and gets my wife to act as announcer; then he comes in, takes a bow, sits down and plays - he usually can't resist making Rock-star type gestures while playing  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

#122
June 12, 2012, 03:46:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on June 12, 2012, 03:38:51 PM
My smug story for the day - Carl is getting quite good at playing the piano, and he has a recital on Thursday. He rather enjoys it. He can play many songs with reading the music as he goes, and at least three songs from memory.

Being Carl, he makes every practice into a full concert - he mimes collecting money from the audience (my wife and I), issues us tickets, and gets my wife to act as announcer; then he comes in, takes a bow, sits down and plays - he usually can't resist making Rock-star type gestures while playing  :D

Dang, that's pretty cool.  How old is he now?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Malthus

#123
June 12, 2012, 03:54:11 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 12, 2012, 03:46:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on June 12, 2012, 03:38:51 PM
My smug story for the day - Carl is getting quite good at playing the piano, and he has a recital on Thursday. He rather enjoys it. He can play many songs with reading the music as he goes, and at least three songs from memory.

Being Carl, he makes every practice into a full concert - he mimes collecting money from the audience (my wife and I), issues us tickets, and gets my wife to act as announcer; then he comes in, takes a bow, sits down and plays - he usually can't resist making Rock-star type gestures while playing  :D

Dang, that's pretty cool.  How old is he now?

He's six.

I can't play a note myself (my parents tried to get me to take piano lessons and I hated it so much I refused to go), so I'm tickled pink that at six he can already do something I can't.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

#124
June 12, 2012, 04:13:21 PM
Quote from: Malthus on June 12, 2012, 03:54:11 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 12, 2012, 03:46:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on June 12, 2012, 03:38:51 PM
My smug story for the day - Carl is getting quite good at playing the piano, and he has a recital on Thursday. He rather enjoys it. He can play many songs with reading the music as he goes, and at least three songs from memory.

Being Carl, he makes every practice into a full concert - he mimes collecting money from the audience (my wife and I), issues us tickets, and gets my wife to act as announcer; then he comes in, takes a bow, sits down and plays - he usually can't resist making Rock-star type gestures while playing  :D

Dang, that's pretty cool.  How old is he now?

He's six.

I can't play a note myself (my parents tried to get me to take piano lessons and I hated it so much I refused to go), so I'm tickled pink that at six he can already do something I can't.  :D

When did you start with Carl?
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sbr

#125
June 12, 2012, 04:36:46 PM
My oldest is 18 today.  That makes me feel pretty old.

Malthus

#126
June 13, 2012, 08:13:51 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 12, 2012, 04:13:21 PM
When did you start with Carl?

He's been playing for seven months or so - so when he was just turned six.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

#127
June 13, 2012, 09:02:27 AM
Quote from: Malthus on June 13, 2012, 08:13:51 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 12, 2012, 04:13:21 PM
When did you start with Carl?

He's been playing for seven months or so - so when he was just turned six.

Ah.  I'd like tim to play an instrument, potentially piano, but am unsure when to start him.  5 seemed the earliest possible, 6 maybe more realistic.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Malthus

#128
June 15, 2012, 04:08:49 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 13, 2012, 09:02:27 AM
Quote from: Malthus on June 13, 2012, 08:13:51 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 12, 2012, 04:13:21 PM
When did you start with Carl?

He's been playing for seven months or so - so when he was just turned six.

Ah.  I'd like tim to play an instrument, potentially piano, but am unsure when to start him.  5 seemed the earliest possible, 6 maybe more realistic.

Dunno if you can access it, but here's a video my mother took of one of the songs at his recital (he's playing a duet with his teacher): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBzPTzp9tkc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Ed Anger

#129
July 03, 2012, 04:40:30 PM
The twins ran into the neighborhood kid they just can't stand. They opened the hostilities and Cassandra went berserker on him.  :)

My wife had to pull her off him and was was doing that authoritarian full name bullshit. CASSANDRA MARIA HAWKINS, YOU ARE IS SERIOUS TROUBLE YOUNG LADY. YOU JUST WAIT UNTIL WE GET HOME.

Me? Shit. Eating. Grin.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Razgovory

#130
July 03, 2012, 05:05:51 PM
Wait, did you just post your last name here?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

katmai

#131
July 03, 2012, 05:06:54 PM
Do you think he gave his real name :rolleyes:
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Razgovory

#132
July 03, 2012, 05:22:52 PM
Quote from: katmai on July 03, 2012, 05:06:54 PM
Do you think he gave his real name :rolleyes:

He's getting on in years.  He could slip up.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

#133
July 03, 2012, 05:37:28 PM
Who knows. Only Allah knows.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

katmai

#134
July 03, 2012, 07:07:53 PM
We all know it's John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son
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