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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 522062" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, maybe no-one can provide me with the magically insightful answer of why J is like he is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> But one thought that did occur to me this evening as he was crying and protesting to go out and ride his bike with two older boys who came by our house (he was tired, under the weather with a cold and was staying inside the house tonight, come what may) was that of Odysseus and the sirens. You remember the story - Odysseus was to sail past the famous siren mermaids, who lured sailors to their death with the sound of their irresistible singing; he told his sailors to tie him to the ship's mast and to ignore all his entreaties to untie him as they passed the haunting song... You have to tie yourself to a proverbial mast and remain deaf to all these entreaties until you safely pass the danger <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Sure enough, five minutes later he had got over it and was on to some new centre of interest...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 522062, member: 11227"] Well, maybe no-one can provide me with the magically insightful answer of why J is like he is :) But one thought that did occur to me this evening as he was crying and protesting to go out and ride his bike with two older boys who came by our house (he was tired, under the weather with a cold and was staying inside the house tonight, come what may) was that of Odysseus and the sirens. You remember the story - Odysseus was to sail past the famous siren mermaids, who lured sailors to their death with the sound of their irresistible singing; he told his sailors to tie him to the ship's mast and to ignore all his entreaties to untie him as they passed the haunting song... You have to tie yourself to a proverbial mast and remain deaf to all these entreaties until you safely pass the danger :) Sure enough, five minutes later he had got over it and was on to some new centre of interest... [/QUOTE]
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