Comments on: Mothering By The Seat Of My Pants http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants I would look more like this chick --> if she were folding laundry Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ed http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-3189 Ed Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:59:37 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-3189 Me again. Found this link on fark.com this morning and thought maybe it offered a few answers regarding the confidence our parents seemed to show: http://www.pharmacytechs.net/blog/old-school-medicine-ads Me again. Found this link on fark.com this morning and thought maybe it offered a few answers regarding the confidence our parents seemed to show:
http://www.pharmacytechs.net/blog/old-school-medicine-ads

]]> By: Alison Robb Astair http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-3051 Alison Robb Astair Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:41:46 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-3051 Isn't it amazing Jenny, that the calming and soothing answers are just inside of us? It all comes from so much love and wanting to just make things better. I always tell all of my clients, that children don't come with instuctions! That's much of the confusion of being a parent. The books sort of put a "one size fits all" into their writings. I end up in so many parents home where they tell me that one book told them one thing to do and another book told them something else! So much confusion! I love what I do! I love working with parents in their homes! Tailoring things to each child and family is where success comes in! For all of the other stuff, you're right, it's by the seat of your pants! Isn’t it amazing Jenny, that the calming and soothing answers are just inside of us? It all comes from so much love and wanting to just make things better.

I always tell all of my clients, that children don’t come with instuctions! That’s much of the confusion of being a parent. The books sort of put a “one size fits all” into their writings. I end up in so many parents home where they tell me that one book told them one thing to do and another book told them something else! So much confusion!

I love what I do! I love working with parents in their homes! Tailoring things to each child and family is where success comes in! For all of the other stuff, you’re right, it’s by the seat of your pants!

]]> By: rachy http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2995 rachy Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:43:02 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2995 i like Kathy's comment about the kiss for an owie: i found that always having a few band aides was essential! i was always amazed how something so simple could stop the tears after getting a boo boo! i like Kathy’s comment about the kiss for an owie: i found that always having a few band aides was essential! i was always amazed how something so simple could stop the tears after getting a boo boo!

]]> By: Diane Mierzwik http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2989 Diane Mierzwik Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:15:54 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2989 Feeling like you're still a kid in an adult body - yes, I know that feeling well, especially last week when I was chasing my car down the road because I didn't put on the emergency brake. Had to show my teenager, new driver, damage to the car mommy did - oops! Feeling like you’re still a kid in an adult body – yes, I know that feeling well, especially last week when I was chasing my car down the road because I didn’t put on the emergency brake. Had to show my teenager, new driver, damage to the car mommy did – oops!

]]> By: Erik Deckers http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2987 Erik Deckers Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:29:50 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2987 You know, some of those old home remedies DO work. Don't let some smarmy EMT instructor make fun of you or shame you into thinking they don't. I learned a long time ago that a big key to looking like you know what you're doing is to appear confident. Even if you're not sure inside, just act like you are, and your kids will believe you. You know, some of those old home remedies DO work. Don’t let some smarmy EMT instructor make fun of you or shame you into thinking they don’t.

I learned a long time ago that a big key to looking like you know what you’re doing is to appear confident. Even if you’re not sure inside, just act like you are, and your kids will believe you.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2986 Kathy Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:10:24 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2986 Some of those remedies are time tested! Kissing an owie still works wonderfully. Just ask my 3 year old granddaughter. It worked for her daddy's owies and it works for hers. It only stops working when you grow up and stop believing that it works. We all start out doing the best we can, then learn more along the way. Our first mommy education comes from our own mommies while they were being mommies to us. The best thing we can do as grandmas is to let our daughters be mommies to their babies. That might mean letting them learn new things too. Who knows maybe something else will work better, or at least different. We all figure it out, don't we. Keep laughing along the way! Some of those remedies are time tested! Kissing an owie still works wonderfully. Just ask my 3 year old granddaughter. It worked for her daddy’s owies and it works for hers. It only stops working when you grow up and stop believing that it works.

We all start out doing the best we can, then learn more along the way. Our first mommy education comes from our own mommies while they were being mommies to us. The best thing we can do as grandmas is to let our daughters be mommies to their babies. That might mean letting them learn new things too. Who knows maybe something else will work better, or at least different.

We all figure it out, don’t we. Keep laughing along the way!

]]> By: Kirk http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2979 Kirk Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:03:10 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2979 Lets see: Mothers do "Mothering By The Seat Of My Pants" and babies "Fill the seat of their pants"..... seems like a natural winning combination ... LOL Lets see:

Mothers do “Mothering By The Seat Of My Pants” and babies “Fill the seat of their pants”….. seems like a natural winning combination … LOL

]]> By: Chris B http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2977 Chris B Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:05:23 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2977 Oh, yea!!! I especially liked, "Was she all knowing or just a teenager, stuck in a “mommy” body!" For me and my mom I think the answer is/was a resounding yes. Oh, and I still feel like a 25 year old, but I'm in my late 50s! (I didn't like me at 21!) Oh, yea!!! I especially liked, “Was she all knowing or just a teenager, stuck in a “mommy” body!” For me and my mom I think the answer is/was a resounding yes.

Oh, and I still feel like a 25 year old, but I’m in my late 50s! (I didn’t like me at 21!)

]]> By: Tara http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2972 Tara Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:39:05 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2972 You out-did yourself Jenny :) Such truer words have never been spoken...at least not the way you put them lol. Thanks - sharing with every mother I know! - - Tara You out-did yourself Jenny :) Such truer words have never been spoken…at least not the way you put them lol. Thanks – sharing with every mother I know! – - Tara

]]> By: Ed http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2971 Ed Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:04:14 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2971 Hey, give your mom props for perpetrating such a lasting and relatively believable ruse. I recognized the black hole that was my mom's parenting ability at 5 when she lubed my pasty white ass up with baby oil and sent me out to play on hot summer days. I truly believe she would have used Crisco if it weren't so expensive. So three degrees of burns later and the closest she ever came to Mary Poppins was when she suggested a blister-popping game. Hey, at least she wasn't as bad as my dad who would make me drink a shot of cheap scotch before he slapped my blackened flesh then laughed until he farted. Kizmitically speaking, I carried a (substantially less sexy) photo of a fireman and told everyone that he was my real dad and Mrs. Butterworth was my real mom. God knows who my kids will claim as their "real" parents. All I can say is that I hope their mom is firewoman hot. Hey, give your mom props for perpetrating such a lasting and relatively believable ruse. I recognized the black hole that was my mom’s parenting ability at 5 when she lubed my pasty white ass up with baby oil and sent me out to play on hot summer days. I truly believe she would have used Crisco if it weren’t so expensive. So three degrees of burns later and the closest she ever came to Mary Poppins was when she suggested a blister-popping game. Hey, at least she wasn’t as bad as my dad who would make me drink a shot of cheap scotch before he slapped my blackened flesh then laughed until he farted.
Kizmitically speaking, I carried a (substantially less sexy) photo of a fireman and told everyone that he was my real dad and Mrs. Butterworth was my real mom. God knows who my kids will claim as their “real” parents. All I can say is that I hope their mom is firewoman hot.

]]> By: Insanitykim http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2961 Insanitykim Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:12:17 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2961 I taught CRP/First Aid for Red Cross for about 3 years, and all I can say is, I learned to recognize when people were NOT dead. Everything else pretty much requires a freak-out and a call to 911, which brings out the firemen. Who knows if they were cute, they could have been aliens for all I knew when my daughter was passed out in my arms! I stick Mentholatum under my kids' noses for tummy aches, and for me I am convinced that drinking a dry martini will kill any parasites in my sushi. My mom told me if I coughed up phlegm and then swallowed it instead of spitting it out it went right back into my lungs. Didn't take me long to realize it was going into my stomach. Did either revelation stop me? No... I have diarrhea of the mouth right now...any suggestions?? I taught CRP/First Aid for Red Cross for about 3 years, and all I can say is, I learned to recognize when people were NOT dead. Everything else pretty much requires a freak-out and a call to 911, which brings out the firemen. Who knows if they were cute, they could have been aliens for all I knew when my daughter was passed out in my arms!

I stick Mentholatum under my kids’ noses for tummy aches, and for me I am convinced that drinking a dry martini will kill any parasites in my sushi.

My mom told me if I coughed up phlegm and then swallowed it instead of spitting it out it went right back into my lungs. Didn’t take me long to realize it was going into my stomach. Did either revelation stop me? No…

I have diarrhea of the mouth right now…any suggestions??

]]> By: nancy schutt http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/my-pants/comment-page-1#comment-2958 nancy schutt Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:13:48 +0000 http://www.suburbanjungle.net/?p=179#comment-2958 Oh yeah right, sexy men, especially firemen, well lets just say men in general, know the answers to whatever, better than young mothers, mothers in general, well lets just say women- pretty much all the time. you know what? toothpaste DOES work for bee-stings, tongues give the full story of your innards, hot water soaks kill warts, and sitting on cold surfaces causes hemorrhoids. Your mother's wisdom was passed down to you from your great great grandmothers, and should be duly respected, especially by knuckle headed, albeit pretty, dudes. My great grandmother saved my grandfathers life when he was an infant with pneumonia by wrapping him in onion skins after the doctors said he was doomed. Don't forget, you have a duty to pass this valuable information from your mother on to your daughter, then her daughter... Oh yeah right, sexy men, especially firemen, well lets just say men in general, know the answers to whatever, better than young mothers, mothers in general, well lets just say women- pretty much all the time.
you know what? toothpaste DOES work for bee-stings, tongues give the full story of your innards, hot water soaks kill warts, and sitting on cold surfaces causes hemorrhoids. Your mother’s wisdom was passed down to you from your great great grandmothers, and should be duly respected, especially by knuckle headed, albeit pretty, dudes. My great grandmother saved my grandfathers life when he was an infant with pneumonia by wrapping him in onion skins after the doctors said he was doomed. Don’t forget, you have a duty to pass this valuable information from your mother on to your daughter, then her daughter…

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