3/27/2006 - Sibling rivalry
"Why does daddy love the baby more than me?"
I've said it before and I'll say it again: my eldest would make an excellent lawyer. At a relatively early age, he had perfected the fine art of negating whatever I said:
JG: "Gathering dark clouds and a falling barometer are fairly good indications that it's going to rain."
Eldest: "Gathering dark clouds and a falling barometer are not fairly good indications that it's going to rain!"
Well, he has more recently began experimenting with the fine art of questions that presuppose guilt, a la "When did you stop beating your wife?"
So my (unbeaten) wife and I had to think several beats before responding to the question. Of course I don't love the baby more, buddy, but you and he need different things. When my wife was pregnant, my big fear was that I wouldn't be able to love the baby, because I would spend so much time focused on my eldest. It is amusing to hear my eldest come to the opposite conclusion.
7,900 ironic steps today. Cheers,
I've said it before and I'll say it again: my eldest would make an excellent lawyer. At a relatively early age, he had perfected the fine art of negating whatever I said:
JG: "Gathering dark clouds and a falling barometer are fairly good indications that it's going to rain."
Eldest: "Gathering dark clouds and a falling barometer are not fairly good indications that it's going to rain!"
Well, he has more recently began experimenting with the fine art of questions that presuppose guilt, a la "When did you stop beating your wife?"
So my (unbeaten) wife and I had to think several beats before responding to the question. Of course I don't love the baby more, buddy, but you and he need different things. When my wife was pregnant, my big fear was that I wouldn't be able to love the baby, because I would spend so much time focused on my eldest. It is amusing to hear my eldest come to the opposite conclusion.
7,900 ironic steps today. Cheers,
posted by jgfellow at 11:19 AM
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