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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 512618" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Well....I think it's very plausable to dislike someones child and not have any feelings of love for them period. Relative or not. Mind you - I wouldn't ever ALLOW anyone to hurt my niece - but the girl is a (can't type that vernacular here) and the sense of entitlement she wields and has since she was a baby is ridiculous. Her Mother encourages her streetwalker attire, she encourages her sassy - get-in-your face attitude, and it doesn't matter whether it's with me or MY MOTHER. She's brash, opinionated, rude, crude, and she will flat out tell you to go to hades if she wants to. The only time she's even civil? Is if she thinks she can get something from you or wants something from you - and if she wants something? She has no problem stating that if she doesn't get it now? She'll just get it when you're dead (in reference to my Mother) so Yeah .....I think it's very possible to dislike someone even if you are blood. </p><p></p><p>My first encounter with the child was a visit to my home, we have fireants. We set up a pool and kiddie fun stuff, and my niece was TOLD repeatedly NOT to go to a certain area of the yard. We did treat for them, but at that time the poison took a while to kill a hive. She went where she wanted to go anyway! (typical) We explained it again - and she began to cry like we had scolded her, and my sister came unglued, screamed at all of us for yelling at my niece. We explained that fire ants could kill a child of five. She didn't care -we were all picking on her daughter. WELL SO BE IT. A little while later the kids were back out in the yard and my niece wandered back into the forbidden zone - after being instructed NOT to discipline her daughter - we had to OBEY my sister and my niece was bitten as you can imagine several times - around fifty before she even knew it. Like we told her - she was stung and my sister scooped her up, and in the process also got bit. We sat there and did nothing as instructed. When the baby wouldn't quit crying I came into the house and got the Benalyn, and some season all - and told my sister - that if she sat her on the counter, and put cold water on her legs, and rubbed the season all on her legs - the salt would take some of the sting out - My sister said YOU DO IT----so I did. My niece was shrieking - and kicking...and having a fit. I told her in a soft voice to calm down, it would be okay and soothed her with saying "It will be okay, I know it hurts now, let me put this on your legs, there, there.....let me see.....it's okay. calm down...and from THAT??? My sister got so angry and started throwing a fit and said "DO NOT TELL HER NOT TO CRY - OMG you are HIDEOUS she can cry if she wants to....and if she wants to she will got it? And with that? My niece started to shriek again, kick, flail - kicked the salt out of my hand - and knocked stuff off my counter - and my sister came to her and held her and said (are you ready?) "Don't cry.....don't cry!" ------</p><p></p><p>After that little incident? Myself, DF and my son made wide circles around both of them. DF got some fence and put it up around the area where the ants were so the kids couldn't get near them and took the pool down because water attracts them too in the hot days. Dude was so upset. My thought also was - Dear Lord if she slips in the pool? That's it. Or anything else - Dude begged us for the sprinklers -and we said "NO" not until they leave. (could be a rock or an ant or a blade of grass) sheesh. </p><p></p><p>To this day - I've never been thanked for a single gift I've sent. NOT ONCE. I've never gotten a call for any card with cash. NOT ONCE. THEY have NEVER NOT ONCE sent DUde a birthday card, or Christmas card - but did tell him once - they had a gift card for his birthday -but she was lousy with mail - and hated to go to the post office - Dude asked for three years if she was ever going to send it. lol. So yeah - I understand. The fact remains to me - she is NEVER going to change. We are NEVER going to be close because her Mother made her like she is - and LIKES it that way. I thought maybe if she graduated and got out on her own - went to college and got away from her Mom? She'd change - but when she made plans for college? Her Mother said "I'm moving with her to campus!" We all were just aghast. She's never let her live her own life - and now she's pregnant, living at home, invited her boyfriend to live with them...and in a year I may have gotten a 3 minute call bragging that someone was going to be a grandmother......oh and that makes you a great aunt. Whoopie. </p><p></p><p>Well at least I know where they won't bring the baby for vacation ------We still have fireants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 512618, member: 4964"] Well....I think it's very plausable to dislike someones child and not have any feelings of love for them period. Relative or not. Mind you - I wouldn't ever ALLOW anyone to hurt my niece - but the girl is a (can't type that vernacular here) and the sense of entitlement she wields and has since she was a baby is ridiculous. Her Mother encourages her streetwalker attire, she encourages her sassy - get-in-your face attitude, and it doesn't matter whether it's with me or MY MOTHER. She's brash, opinionated, rude, crude, and she will flat out tell you to go to hades if she wants to. The only time she's even civil? Is if she thinks she can get something from you or wants something from you - and if she wants something? She has no problem stating that if she doesn't get it now? She'll just get it when you're dead (in reference to my Mother) so Yeah .....I think it's very possible to dislike someone even if you are blood. My first encounter with the child was a visit to my home, we have fireants. We set up a pool and kiddie fun stuff, and my niece was TOLD repeatedly NOT to go to a certain area of the yard. We did treat for them, but at that time the poison took a while to kill a hive. She went where she wanted to go anyway! (typical) We explained it again - and she began to cry like we had scolded her, and my sister came unglued, screamed at all of us for yelling at my niece. We explained that fire ants could kill a child of five. She didn't care -we were all picking on her daughter. WELL SO BE IT. A little while later the kids were back out in the yard and my niece wandered back into the forbidden zone - after being instructed NOT to discipline her daughter - we had to OBEY my sister and my niece was bitten as you can imagine several times - around fifty before she even knew it. Like we told her - she was stung and my sister scooped her up, and in the process also got bit. We sat there and did nothing as instructed. When the baby wouldn't quit crying I came into the house and got the Benalyn, and some season all - and told my sister - that if she sat her on the counter, and put cold water on her legs, and rubbed the season all on her legs - the salt would take some of the sting out - My sister said YOU DO IT----so I did. My niece was shrieking - and kicking...and having a fit. I told her in a soft voice to calm down, it would be okay and soothed her with saying "It will be okay, I know it hurts now, let me put this on your legs, there, there.....let me see.....it's okay. calm down...and from THAT??? My sister got so angry and started throwing a fit and said "DO NOT TELL HER NOT TO CRY - OMG you are HIDEOUS she can cry if she wants to....and if she wants to she will got it? And with that? My niece started to shriek again, kick, flail - kicked the salt out of my hand - and knocked stuff off my counter - and my sister came to her and held her and said (are you ready?) "Don't cry.....don't cry!" ------ After that little incident? Myself, DF and my son made wide circles around both of them. DF got some fence and put it up around the area where the ants were so the kids couldn't get near them and took the pool down because water attracts them too in the hot days. Dude was so upset. My thought also was - Dear Lord if she slips in the pool? That's it. Or anything else - Dude begged us for the sprinklers -and we said "NO" not until they leave. (could be a rock or an ant or a blade of grass) sheesh. To this day - I've never been thanked for a single gift I've sent. NOT ONCE. I've never gotten a call for any card with cash. NOT ONCE. THEY have NEVER NOT ONCE sent DUde a birthday card, or Christmas card - but did tell him once - they had a gift card for his birthday -but she was lousy with mail - and hated to go to the post office - Dude asked for three years if she was ever going to send it. lol. So yeah - I understand. The fact remains to me - she is NEVER going to change. We are NEVER going to be close because her Mother made her like she is - and LIKES it that way. I thought maybe if she graduated and got out on her own - went to college and got away from her Mom? She'd change - but when she made plans for college? Her Mother said "I'm moving with her to campus!" We all were just aghast. She's never let her live her own life - and now she's pregnant, living at home, invited her boyfriend to live with them...and in a year I may have gotten a 3 minute call bragging that someone was going to be a grandmother......oh and that makes you a great aunt. Whoopie. Well at least I know where they won't bring the baby for vacation ------We still have fireants. [/QUOTE]
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