Kids are so honest

[tomi71 581]

After loosing all this weight, my grandkids commented that they miss the old me, where my soft tummy made a nice pillow.

Funny you mention that! When I was a young teen, my mom lost about 65 lbs because she found out she had Type II Diabetes.

Diabetes picked the wrong lady to mess with and in her usual fashion, she did not eff around! She became a runner and would run up to 5 miles a day M-Sat and kicked Diabetes arse!

This was 35 years ago and she has maintained ever since and never batted an eye. She is in her early 70s, is wracked with osteo-arthritis but not even that stops her! She walks now instead of running and she's got the legs of a 25 year old dancer still! I am so proud of her.....

BUT I remember missing her cushion-y hugs! LOL

I'll take her slender, healthy hugs over no hugs any day though!

[mrs kaje 347]

I have said to other people's kids before "Oh, that's not a very nice/kind thing to say". Not in a bitchy or mean way, but just kind of planting that in their minds.

Has anyone seen the kids movie Flushed Away? My then-6-year-old daughter held up a pair of my knickers once and sang the line from the movie, "...and the lady wears big undies, huuuuge undies". It was too funny to offend me and both kids do it every now and then and we all have a good laugh. Now-7-year-old did it a few days ago when one of the in-laws was in the next room, and I explained to her how it embarrasses me if she says things like that in front of other people.

I have tried to teach them to never make comments about other people, because I know how it feels. (Although the youngest one did say, upon seeing a little person at the shops, "Look, there's an Oompa Loompa!". Cringe!).

Edited January 9, 2015 by mrs kaje