There's something about little kids that makes you smile. That makes you forgiving of every sin. That makes your heart melt.
Think about it. You are coming home from a tiring day at work, and you see a little girl walking with her mother. She has an angelic pretty face, and two pigtails in her gorgeous hair. You can't help but smile, and for those few minutes, you feel at peace.
Maybe it's because they remind you of a time of innocence, of naivete, of no worries or stress. Maybe it is because they bring you back to a time when you were happy, and just enjoyed life.
But whatever it is, kids can turn even the biggest sour grouch into a besotted fool with a silly grin on their face.
They make you laugh at the silly antics they get up to. We oooh and aaah over how cute they are. We want to cuddle with them, hold them, and 'eat them up.'
At other times, kids can make you wish you were never born. You want to slap them (G-d forbid!) and tell them to 'grow up' and act their age. Except that's exactly what they are doing.
We do stupid stuff, and tell them 'don't do what I did' and then get mad when they do. We don't understand why they don't just listen to us, why they have to cry so much, and why they can't just behave.
And this is all when they are little. Then they grow up and turn into angsty teenagers, and make you wish to G-d you never had kids.
Kids. You can't live with them, you can't live without them. I can only imagine what my parents are going through.
As the popular saying goes "When they're babies, you wish you could eat them. When they grow up, you wish you had!"
ReplyDeleteN, I am not sure the saying is quite so popular.
ReplyDeleteSeeing kids make me jealous. Also, all the goyishe kids cry when they see me, and all the yiddishe kinderlach smile. I am a good lithmus test of a yiddishe neshama.
why does it make you jealous? Cuz you want to have kids? And why do you make kids cry? Cuz you don't give them candy on Halloween?
ReplyDelete:) Your beardscares them off? That's cute, I never heard that before. What's scary about a beard?
ReplyDeleteAnd Iy''h very soon.
Image you were three and never saw anyone have facial hair.
ReplyDeleteIt’s hair. Hair is scary when you see it where you don’t expect it. Applies across all ages, genders and species.
Amein.
lol. When you put it that way, I should be scared too. Funny how I'm attracted to a guy in a beard. Ok unless they are arab. Or old and balding for that matter.
ReplyDeleteIf we are already sharing lines, here is one: Having grandchildren is the reward for not strangling your kids. Having siad that i have two points: 1) very well written and 2) why is it that when a guy would write that very same post he would be pegged as a pedophile and creep, before you say "hew wont" think about it
ReplyDeleteWe say “sheker ha’chein, vehevel ha’yofi”. Which applies to men as well.
ReplyDeleteSome Jews you can definitely spot a mile away.
People love their grandchildren more than they like their children. They will get their revenge on the latter through the former.
ReplyDeleteMaybe because most pedophiles (and in general, sexual predators) are men. C’est la vie.
(the last comment was in response to Big N8.)
ReplyDelete:) for point one, thank you. Somehow on the posts that I am not sure why I even wrote it, I get good reviews. Feels good.
ReplyDeleteAnd second: you are right. He would. Maybe because it is known that women are naturally maternal, have a connection to kids. And what CA said. I dont know. You are right, but I wouldnt think of you as a creep if you wrote somehing like this.
CA- but not all Jews? I always worry that someone will not know that I am chabad. Ya, maybe I should try to dress it more, or act it, but still. What if you cant tell that someone is jewish?
How does one distinguish Chabad girls from generally frum girls (I mean, in appearance)?
ReplyDeleteYou can try carrying a Chitas around all the time.
One time I was driving through a toll, and some middle-aged guy told me “zei gezunt”. I don’t know if he was Jewish or not (it’s less generic than the usual “Shalom” I get once in a while), but if he was, I wouldn’t be able to tell. But in general, my Jewdar is pretty bad. Which is why I would be terrible at mivtzoim.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, I always thought we had a certain look. Maybe if I wore a sign...
ReplyDelete'Jewdar'. :) I like. You should copyright that.
And you know, maybe you should do what I saw some ppl doing, go up to everyone, even black guys, andsay, are you Jewish. Cuz hey, it might turn out that they are, and if not, you can always tell t hem abt the 7 Noahide laws.
I don’t have enough expertise on the matter to judge. I can definitely spot a Lubavitcher a mile away.
ReplyDeleteOr I could not do this, but say I did. :) If you knew me personally, you wouldn’t suggest it. ;)
Or would I... well you do what you do. Mivtzoyim is good, I always applaud the bocherim when I see them out on the streets, doing mivtzoyim, last night I saw them in manhattan waving their yellow flags. it makes me feel good, like hey, those are my ppl!
ReplyDeletebut its not for me.
I don’t know about yellow flags, but the rest yeah, same here.
ReplyDeleteyellow flags.... oooh boy. Na, I'm not gonna get into that discussion.
ReplyDeleteHaha, fine. It’s a complicated thing anyway. I just spent an hour or two explaining it to someone who was freaked out by the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI would love to write a post abt it, but a) I'd rather not scare off any non lubavitchers who read my blog and b) it would clog my inbox with comment after comment that I have no intention of answering to, much like my post on the death penalty. my attitude is, 'I care what you think, feel free to voice your opinion, but this is me, keeping silent.' better that way.
ReplyDeleteSure, keep you head in the sand. :-P
ReplyDelete(j/k)
if you say you wanna hear it, I'll tell you, but don't say I didn't warn you.
ReplyDeleteWhen I said popular I was being ironic :)
ReplyDeleteTell me about the yellow flags (not gonna happen).
ReplyDeleteyou really wanna hear? good idea for my next post.
ReplyDeleteYES
ReplyDeleteoh boy... i feel like im opening a can of worms. ok, i'll write it tonight, check back tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteOkay.
ReplyDeletePeeeer presssssure!
ReplyDelete:) hey. I never do anything that I don't actually want to do.
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