My 3 year olds take on not crying.

So, you're the guilty one? That was a cute story, sure hope Grandpa is okay.

........itai!

How did a 3-year old learn the word "penis"? 0.o

Crap - I need to teach that to the guy I am renting a room from now. The dude cries..........about everything all the time. It's pathetic. When I say cry - I'm not talking a tear running down the cheek - I'm talking about actual sobbing - the word "Wah" has actually come out of his mouth. Last time I got kinda torked and told him to just "f***ing cowboy up, dude". That made him put his hand over his mouth and run from the room in hysterics. Holy cow -- I'm not sure what mental distortion that is all about but he's the first person in my life that I've ever advised to "go get drugs for it". LMAO. Oh well - the room is cheap. I'll move next year. I don't feel like doing that again yet.

My 2-year-old son doesn't cry much, either. It seems that character traits really do start at a young age. I see other boys his age blubbering over the most minor of things. One time, at preschool, a kid older than my son started crying to his father when my toddler checked out the toy train the boy was playing with. It was the school's toy train! My son didn't even grab it and take it away, but just harmlessly picked it up and looked at it. My son said, "Oh brother," handed the train back to him, and walked away, briefly mimicking the other boy's blubbering to himself and laughing, LOL.

Well, males ARE less likely to cry, but it is more true of men than of boys. And at THREE? YEAH, you went too far. You could nudge him a little, and at least wait until he is like 8 or something. HECK, you don't REALLY have to worry about THAT! What kenmichaels said HE would do is what MOST young boys will do around 8 or so.

As for his grandfather? Some problems/tendencies start to become more likely again as you get to be old. He ALSO was probably in a lot of pain AND, with your son's weight, and the fact that he probably risked HIMSELF to keep your son safe, it is reasonable.

BTW he probably correlated penis with male, and figured that since nobody says that to FEMALES, that it had to do with a penis, or he did that to drive the point of being male home.

taskemann,

WOW! They do that in NORWAY too? In the US a LOT of people teach their kids a kind of slang. It is considered english, but it is just for little kids. Fro penis, for example, I had at least 3 names. I generally only used the adult term, penis, though. HECK, I called my mother and father by their first names even when I was 5, many will say like mommy and daddy. But most kids in the US, at least when I was a kid, seemed to not say the adult words.

HECK, they even make up WEIRD stories about how kids appear. One is probably scandinavian, since it involves a stork!

Steve

Here Sal - I thought you might appreciate this...especially bar#4 (courtesy of today's 'The Onion')

thats too funny.