读了昨夜雨的"现在的小人精". 实在好笑. 还读了不少人写关于自己孩子的故事. 其实我想, 如果我们都把自己孩子的小故事拿出来共享, 一定又有趣又有益, 还能交换育子女经验.
这里先来俩个我女儿的故事。

女儿三岁以前，总希望自己快点长大，那样她就可以做我们不让她做的事了。可有一天，大约是她三岁半时吧，下午将她从幼儿园接回时，她突然用很悲伤的口吻说：妈妈，我不想长大了。 我问她为甚么，她的回答完全出乎意料，却是我有生以来听到的最温暖甜美的话语。 她说：我不想长大，因为如果我长大了，你就会变老了。我不想你变老，我要每个人都是现在的样子。

　　有一天, 我开车路过一栋挂有出卖标牌的房子,坐在后座的女儿突然说:"妈妈,我喜欢这栋房子,我们买下好吗?" 搞不清她的小脑子在想甚么, 我决定和她开个玩笑. "可以啊, 不过爸爸妈妈没钱, 你想买你买啊." 她很快地回道: "我想买. " 我接着半开玩笑半好奇地问:"你有钱吗?" 她一点也没犹豫地说:" 我有卡(信用卡)啊."

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Your daughter is so sweet. Kids can really lighten up the days.

"I have credit card." ........man, don't they learn fast!

My son is four years old. Like many kids, He likes Amerian foods much better than the Chinese we cook at home. Lately we drove him to McDonald's pretty often for Happy meals and sometimes an icecream cone as well. On our way back from library this evening, he said he'd like something cold again. So we drove through the Donalds and ordered an icecream cone. After mommy handed it to him and said "You should say thanks to daddy." He happily replied "Thanks for the icecream cone... Donalds".

带孩子洗澡，我把一些塑料茶杯茶壶放在澡盆里，他两个玩得可开心了。大儿子还会讲他在做“菊花茶”给妈妈喝，说他小时候在我肚子里，我说你怎么知道的，他说是托儿所的阿姨讲的。他摸着肚脐眼问我是什么，我说是你在妈妈肚子里吃东西的地方。他又用脚指着弟弟问：弟弟哪个部位是妈妈做的，是他的腿还是耳朵是妈妈做的？

睡觉时他把三个绒布动物都抱到被子里，跟我说这是他的孩子，是从他肚子里出来的，当然才从肚子里出来时很小。

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在我给女儿讲的故事里，肚脐眼是她和弟弟从妈妈肚里生出来的地方。有一天她跑来神秘地告诉我，她也要生小宝贝了。说着她从衣服下面掏出俩玩具熊，说这是她的双胞胎。我问她生了双胞胎肚脐眼还这么小，她说，生的时候很大的，现在缩回去了。

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I don't have kids. May I tell a story of my dog?

My dog is a big shepherd. In contrary to reputation of her kind, she is not much of a guard dog but a pet to us. She is also very independent. As my husband was the natural pack leader, I often wondered her affection for me - in her eyes I might have just been another female canine submitting to the same male authority.

One day my husband was out of town, and her whining woke me from deep sleep - judging from the sound she must be suffering from some sort of pain. It turned out, she stuck her paw in a crack and couldn't get it out. As I jumped to attend to her, my soothing voice must have comforted her greatly. She stopped whining immediately while I woked to release her.

It was definitely one of those moments with her that I will always cherish - that I was someone she trusted, and that I was there for her when she needed me just as she for me.

Serenity:
虽然你没有孩子，你和你的宠物狗的亲密和母子的亲密也差不多了。狗是特别的动物，能得到它的信任其实不容易。而你一旦得到了，它会用生命来回报。

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My suggestion doesn't seem to get a lot of responses. Maybe I post at the wrong section?
"HuaXiaTianDi" maybe better place for this? I am confused.

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八月风你好，谁说人不喜欢你的建议？估计大概只有做母亲的才喜欢唠叨孩子的事情，看起来网上人喜欢争执，不喜欢分享生活中的乐趣。

我来陪你聊一会，我有两个儿子。这次回国了一趟，亲戚们说本来以为他们已经够惯自己的独生孩子了，谁料我还更厉害，把这两个孩子管得不行。说我不在孩子们都还听话，我一在就发怪了。

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LuDi:
Thanks. I agree with you. Most of the people here seem to like arguing and making fun of each other. I don't mind that as long as it doesn't get ugly (which obviously has happened too often these days). I am trying to avoid joining in discussions when that happened.
Have read some of your post. Did I remember correctly that you are from Nanjing? I just start a line trying to gather people from Nanjing. I had many good memories (bad ones too, of course) about the city.

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Here is a story my wife told me.
I have a son of almost 3 years old, a daughter 11 mon.
Yesterday, Michael, my son, played a trick on his little sister, Maggie.
He sometimes doesn't want Maggie to be in his room, and Maggie loves to crawl to her brother. So you can see, there is a little conflict there sometimes.
Beaware of the danger of hitting Maggie very hard if Michael closes door on her, we have been telling him not to close door when Maggie is around. He's got it very well as we so found out yesterday.
When seeing Maggie crawling into his room, he did not try to pull her out. Instead, he ran out into the livingroom, grabbed a toy and rattled it. The sound inevitably captured Maggie's attention, so she turned around and headed into livingroom. Michael then quickly dropped the toy and ran back into his room and slammed the door behind him. HE DID IT.
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Augustwind, thanks for your kindness of accepting my pet story - many friends of mine throw me "dirty" looks if I dare comparing dogs to kids - I guess kids are just a lot more work and responsbilities!

Serenity, I have also liked your story. You seem to have a good relationship with your dog. My youngest son still likes to point at dogs and yell " wa fu, wa fu".

I have also a good girlfriend from Canton. She just had a twin, my, busy every minute of it.

Biscoln，不是说男人不能谈孩子，只不过大多数人觉得夸奖自己孩子的母亲太唠叨，所以不想惹人烦。

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Biscoln:
Woman is in general more like to talk about their kids than man. LuDi didn't say that man can't join this line of talk.
BTW, sentimental is a good thing, there is nothing as "too sentimental". As for "talkative", I think this is a very welcome trait for CND people.
I like you story. My daughter is not as smart as your boy. When my son (1 yr old) trying to crawl into her room, all she would do was screaming for help.

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My son is about 2 and half and one thing he likes to talk about is "我小的时候"

I know a lot of people have the same experience. But whenever i think about it, it feels so good.

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看八月风是老乡,咱贡献一个.

咱给女儿（三岁）的吹眠曲是由儿歌《小兔子乖乖》改的，将“小兔子”改成她的名字”小米亚“来唱。她总想当妈妈给咱唱吹眠曲，她是将”小兔子“改成“小妈眯”。

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Gee, Tianxiang, your son will be able to have a long autobiography. and looks like he is a good storyteller already. Good for you, you know, you can listen to him instead of telling him.
I have to tell story every night, and I am such a bad storyteller, so I just read. not sure about the effect. My guess is zero productivity.

Totally agree that how hard it is to make up a bed time story for kids. I heard those Harry Potter stories were first told as bedtime stories. I have more respect for the author now. Man, I know how hard it is.

I only made one story successfully. It's about a little panda got lost, then my son, on a huge black horse (he insisted to add this detail), found it and looked for food for the little panda in the nearby village. He found Xi Fan of course. Then he took the little panda back to the woods and found the panda mama. So the panda papa cooked my son a great dinner and bid him goodbye.

My son liked it, he asked to hear it every evening.

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I know how frustrating it could be to make kids go to bed.

Recently my son and I play real hard and he gets very tired before he can go to sleep. Sometimes we do wrethling!

One thing I learn from my kids is they are very smart and learn real quick. Treat them as intelligent individuals not just funny monkeys to mock.

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Mr. Biscoln:
Have you tried to give your son ownership of his little sister yet?
It should work.
My son is very protective of his sister now, sometimes too protective.
For a few times, he pushed other kids away in the playground so they won't get close to his sister.

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Biscoln wrote
>But this boy is now developing some bad trait. It just made me both amused and frowning.

I don't think you need to worry too much. Your boy could be just going through a particular period right now. I am sure he will change later.

>MAN, I don't know where he learned that.

you know, I have heard something like "like father, like son".... Just kidding.

>The most fascinating place at home to Maggie is our bathroom

It's interesting! My one-year-old son likes going into the bathroom all the time. We have a mirror on the sliding door of the shower. He likes to look at himself there, and "talk" to himself and laugh at himself.

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OK, last story before I head off.
Katie, the little girl next door, somehow got an impression. One day, she declared that Michael had a crash on her. She cited as an obvious evidence that Michael always went crazy whenever he saw her, which is partly true.
From the day of declaration, they two always would have a hug whenever they saw each other, which lasted for several months.
About a week after the declaration day, other 2 years of about same age came to play, Michael decided to give a hug to other 2 and they did. Katie got very mad, she ran home and refused to play with the other 2 girls. Her parents did not know what happened and had no clue to clam her down, so she cried for several minutes. On the other hand, the perpetrator, Michael, had very good time with other 2 girls by chasing each other.

Biscoln wrote:
> On the other hand, the perpetrator, Michael, had very good time with other 2 girls by chasing each other.

What about this one? Like father, like son.... LOL

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有儿子真好。小儿子总是跟着我去洗衣服，我晒衣服时帮着把衣服递给我，还帮我把脏衣服塞进洗衣机里。大儿子呢会对我的打扮做出反应：妈妈，这件衣服真好看。瞧，儿子把丈夫做不到的全办到了。

今天晚上我想去跑步，天金说他骑自行车陪我去。我在我们小区里跑了半小时多，天金一直骑着他的三轮车跟在我后面。有段路不是很平，他骑得有些吃力，跟我说他骑不快了。回到家他上床一会儿就睡着了，实在是运动累了。

因为他骑得慢，我还能跟他聊两句。我说夏天后你上学了，天昱哥哥夏天过后也要上学了。他竟跟我讲了这么个中文句子：天昱哥哥是我的好哥哥。我听了忙夸奖他真好，他下面就开始继续发挥下去了：我是祃克斯的好哥哥，我是妈妈的好哥哥，我是爸爸的好哥哥。

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這個頭起的好，多談談孩子，別老背著自己的先生談"性"，談其他男人的"body"，談和他的"fair"...

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5-year-old wants to use the computer while mom is using it. What does he say?
"Log Off!"

This is a nice topic. No parents do not want to talk about their kids.

Reading all your cute stories makes me wanting to share mine.

My 4-yr-old daughter is our traffic/safety police now. Every time we are in the car, she would ask if Daddy has his drive license. She would see me put on my seat belt (I normally sit in the back seat to keep her company). She also questions why Daddy did not stop at the yellow lights and wonders when she can drive.

看见各位喜欢这个话题我真高兴. 生了孩子, 我才觉出生活的另一层意义. 看着他们一天天长大, 我好象自己也重新长大了一回.

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我没有孩子，所以当着先生背著先生都談"性”和其他男人和女人的"body"。

知道吗，性高潮时受孕的孩子据说最健康聪明呢。

下午去托儿所接小儿子，走进教室看到他和好朋友一人抱个有他们半人高的玩具娃娃，在一张摆满塑料盘子、玩具平底锅的桌子旁边玩。个老天，这不至于吧，才两岁的男孩子，不仅玩扮家家，还非要抱个“孩子”玩，非要这么逼真才行吗。想他们长大以后做爸爸就不怕了，从小就训练过一边烧饭一边抱孩子了。他们这个班的孩子从几个月的到四岁的都有，也许孩子们常看到老师们抱着婴儿带他们吃饭、玩耍，所以也学老师的样子抱个玩具娃娃玩。

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我的孩子大一点，叫他割草了。昨天打电话到我办公室说割草机加了油后再也发不动了，盘问之下才招供 - 把汽油灌到机油那个孔里去了。

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上海闲话 掠影 往事

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不过孩子是喜欢在花园里帮忙，想给草地浇水这些事都是四岁的大儿子喜欢干的。但他给树浇水时总是往叶子上浇，当然水倒流回来把他都弄湿了。我们在花园里好几次找到小青蛙，孩子们简直喜欢极了。有一次一只小鸭为了躲避追来的猫也逃到我们花园里来了，孩子们跟着爸爸把小鸭又送回了小河边。

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虽为父亲，仍喜欢看这条线。我离开孩子时，他才几天大。等到重逢时都三岁了。失去了最可爱的一段，现在想来都心痛。实在弄不懂为什么周围有些朋友会有将幼儿送回国给爷爷奶奶带的念头。

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别提这查儿, Biscoln 该难过了.

My son was very serious about my driving speed when he was 5. Whenever I exceeded the speed limit, he would yell at me. I probably should have not told him what those numbers meant.

When he was around 3, he asked me why I have to go to work and I told him I have to make money. One day when we were in a toy store, he wanted to buy a real expensive toy and I told him it cost too much money. Then he said, 'Can you do back to your office to make some more money?'

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