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an idea for new parents
genkaku
Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
The following was passed along in email. I don't know about any other parents out there, but it left me feeling I wished I had thought of it.
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I'll have to suggest this to a friend of mine whose daughter is pregnant.
Incidentally, I'm convinced that my grandson, even though his parents never constructed the above scenario, is most definitely - well, ok, probably - an alien-baby... (He has pointed ears....!)
Getting a spacecraft into a forest might be hard ...
Otherwise even ten year olds today are 'PHOTOSHOPPED!' savvy. The principle is sound though or is it?
Imagination development or deception?
A bit of both, but frankly, who cares? The kinds of parents who would find this stunt funny, are going to have and raise kids who would find this stunt funny.....
" I don't know about any other parents out there,..."
Since you asked.....kinda corney for my taste. Sorry, I was too busy feeding the newborn every 3-4 hours, and keeping track of baby bowel movements, and keeping track of sleeping to go through all that for a later date joke.
LOL funny. Would depend on the kid which can be hard to say so you can always abort. I once (I am 3 years older) wrote up a fake certificate that my sister was adopted and left it in my mom's drawer where my sister was always snooping. I found it funny. She didn't, and neither did my parents, lol.
People come up with some amazing ideas though! I never come up with ideas like that. I can't even figure out how to decorate for my son's graduation party, so I look around Pinterest and stuff and man people have amazing ideas for everything. Except me!
@federica -- Can't refrain from remembering a woman I met while on a long-distance bus trip. We got to talking and it turned out she came from an enormous flock of children whose father had a number of ways of keeping idle hands at work. One of them was to tell the kids that if they collected their farts in jars and then sent them to Ireland, there was a man who would pay them a dollar apiece.
The jars began to accumulate and finally the kids wanted to cash in. The father added one more proviso: Each jar needed to be labeled from the inside without losing the fart.