Michael V
Put the cat down. PUT IT DOWN. PUT THE… screw it. It’ll hurt you and that’s how you will learn.
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Wow, you mean other people’s parents actually said this?
They were right, by the way. I still have the scar on my wrist.
lol ditto… my mom told me the same thing…
Never had it said to me, but my brothers are another story.
I tell this to my little girl all the time
It’s a good lesson to teach your kids.
for me it was my grandma and a wooden spoon….goood to know im not alone.
We are a dying breed. I don’t want to think about our future generations who are pre-analyzed in a closed room instead of exposed to reality by their parents.
That is an over-generalization. I’ve said the same thing word-for-word to my boys, 2 and 4 year olds. There are a great many parents who believe that experience is valuable and know the difference between protecting our children and over-protecting them.
Well put! I absolutely believe that if kids aren’t exposed to dirt/other people/cat scratches/worms, etc., they’ll be allergic to everything! My kids played in the mud, and the neighbor’s cat and ate worms when I wasn’t looking and are now the healthiest people I know! Sure, my son’s got a couple of nice battle wounds from the cat, but he doesn’t try to stuff her in the soup pot anymore, either.
So yeah, it’s a CTPS but, it’s also TRUE!
AND hilarious
Your kids played in the neighbour’s cat?
Sorry, it’s just all I could see…
So true…so very true. I know this well..grew up with lots of cats and now have a 3 year old daughter who I’ve said it to as well.
WOW! I think this must have been said someone who is my kindred spirit! I feel complete!
Heck we were told to leave the cats alone, don’t pick up the chickens, don’t touch the oven while it’s on, etc. If we didn’t listen we got hurt. I always listened to them… except the “look before you leap” thing. Walked out the front door and fell three feet to the pavement because the stairs were being repaired.
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!
It was never said; it was done. And though it worked, fairly well I might add, I often catch myself wondering how well it will work with my son. Maybe I’m just a pansy.
Say it anyway.
Just buy a lot of bandages and hydrogen peroxide. Maybe some iodine too. Better to have it and not need it, than to not have it and facepalm every time you do.
I can’t stop laughing at this. I just get this mental picture of some kid swinging a cat by the tail or something. Mean I know but hey kids don’t know that the long furry thing growing out of the back of the cat is not a handle. I do agree that these days we overprotect kids. Hell I remember the stuff on the playground they took away because it was “dangerous” that was the most fun stuff. The merry go round…aka the wheel of death. We got hurt, we cried, we got the hell over it and went back to playing wiser for the experience. Can’t protect them from everything and if you try they will be ill prepared to deal with the stuff you failed to protect them from.
dude unfortunately i gotta agree with you. the world is becoming way too over protective. i fear the wheel of death and its many cousins will be nothing but an epic memory one day :’(
They still sell them though. You can put one in your backyard for your kids. Same idea with a trampoline.
remember when trampolines had no padding and netting? you just learned damn fast how to jump properly and think fast if you were gonna fall off.
i tried telling my son this when i got his trampoline and he didn’t believe me.
LoL! I have said this to my kids on more than one occasion! I figure one day they will learn…
This is an example of proper parenting. Let you kid get hurt.
that’s the best parenting yet … seriously, you stupid kid.
I totally say this, or a variation of it, to my 4 year old daughter on an almost daily basis! Let her swing the cat by the tail, “it’ll learn her!”
Leave the kitteh alone you freaking abnormal spoiled brat!!!
I just wish someone had warned ME, in a house with at least 3 cats (often more). It was only a matter of time…
You didn’t get a warning? Wow. I only got three. Usually anyway.
I always got three warnings too- first Misha would growl, then she would hiss, then she’d smack me with her paw (she was declawed) and THEN she’d bite me if I were stupid enough to keep pestering her.
I say this to my son all the time, but the damn cat won’t scratch him.
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
My mom gave me this warning once, I was about five at the time. Then when I put the cat down and walked away it hunted me the rest of the day and gave me a nice big bite on my wrist (that left temporary scars that stayed a good two years) through my sweater.
Snowball was one crazy cat, and not in a good way, he used to chase my dog and do his business int he laundry.
when you grow up on a farm with countless cats you are used to scratches. i don’t even remember the first cat scratch i got. there a lots of worse injuries that you can get. like falling off of a round bale… or getting stepped on by a cow or horse. heck, even wiping out on your bike is worse than a cat scratch…
My parents did the same for me and I do the same for my kids. You have to expose your kids for them to learn or to adapt. I had a friend whose mother wouldn’t let him play outside if it was too cold/windy/hot/sunny/ looked like it could rain and he was always sick whereas when it was cold my parents told me put on a jacket or don’t come crying to them when I got sick. I get sick maybe once a year.
Haha I say this to the kids too. “Okay, fine. Keep pissing off the cat, but when she scratches you at least you’ll know it’s your fault because I’ve warned you!”
I fully agree! Obviously use common sense (I know, also going quickly the way of the Dodo) but let them learn! The playgrounds of my day would break an arm if you weren’t smart, or at least bad burns if you played on the metal monkey bars in the middle of summer.
My mother has a tape of when I was little and she was saying “Put the cigarette butt down. PUT IT DOWN. PUT THE…..okay, fine. Eat it. When you die don’t come crying to me.” to me at the playground.
That’s what finally happened with the ex’s little monster and the cat. I caught him swinging it by the hind legs when it was three months old. I caught him poking at it in the carrier with a coat hanger. He tormented that poor cat. Then it figured out what its claws are for.
I agree with that form of parenting (a few cat scratches here and there to learn about life and about not doing stupid things), up to a certain point: If there’s a danger the kid will hurt the cat, I’m the one who’s going to bitchslap the kid into knowing better than swinging the cat around, for example.
I’m one for not overprotecting the kids, but I wouldn’t want to cat to get hurt either. After all, both are innocent beings under my protection and both deserve proper care.
Got to agree with that, I’m that way with my 5 yr old boy, and our dog
I say this a lot still waiting for the 4 yr old to learn that perticular lesson.