Sounds Parents Dread

Honestly, I haven't heard glass break.... yet.

How about when your 16yo daughter says " Daddy, I'm going to have a baby, and Julio and I are getting married". Green card alien with a pretty face and no job. It all worked out much better than I had expected. He turned out to be an exemplary husband. Of course I had very clearly threatened his life the night of the wedding if I ever found out he put a mark on my baby.

My least favorite (one sibling to another, in rapid, high-pitched speech): "Sorry, Sorry, Sorry"

Translation: "I just wacked you with something, and the screaming is about to start."

cwh wrote: How about when your 16yo daughter says " Daddy, I'm going to have a baby, and Julio and I are getting married". Green card alien with a pretty face and no job. It all worked out much better than I had expected. He turned out to be an exemplary husband. Of course I had very clearly threatened his life the night of the wedding if I ever found out he put a mark on my baby.

You've said this one before, I don't know whether to laugh or be extremely distraught about ever having a daughter (which would be a long way away as I am currently single)

I think my favorite was when I wasn't a parent, and I'm pretty sure my mom hated me for a LONG time for this one. I was talking to one of my (much) younger brothers on the phone about Mortal Kombat or some E36 M3, when I hear THWAP! BWAAAAAH. Turns out the youngest had smacked him in the head with a Tonka Toy because it was HIS turn to talk to me about Mortal Kombat. My response being the older out of the house brother "Well hit him back!" cause that's what I woulda done. I heard the phone get dropped a THUMP! and the phone goes dead. Come to find out he DID hit him back. With a 2x4. With a nail in it. WHERE the hell he got that, i have NO idea.

In reply to mndsm:

and that, in a nutshell, is probably the general sequence of how nuclear war will ultimately break out.

Hi Temp guy- Your time will come.

Phone ringing late at night after kids went to the Prom.

newish father of a 5 mo. old here....probably should have stayed out. now my hands are sweating.

Thump followed by silence is the worst for sure.

Well as a father of a 2 yo and 17 yo, there is really one noise I dread.

Silence.

With the 17 yo, her BF is at the house all the time. They keep the door open to her room, but sometimes it gets closed. If I don't hear them talking or something, BOOM door gets opened. They're usually on their phones or on the computer or iPad or something, but you know what goes through my head.

With the 2 yo, well that's already been mentioned. LOL She's doing something she ain't supposta.

In reply to Conquest351:

Yep, no noise from them means something not good is going on.

And yes the sound of a head hitting something makes my skin crawl. The day before our oldest boy started preschool he was running full speed down the sidewalk, tripped an landed square on his face. Still makes me shudder to this day!

ScottyB wrote: newish father of a 5 mo. old here....probably should have stayed out. now my hands are sweating.

You're gonna find out sooner or later. Mine is a daredevil- so I'm used to most head smacking noises....

As a new parent none of this is reassuring. I will not be showing this thread to SWMBO.

Ummmm well....

My cat hates the vacuum so much that about once every 5 times i vacuum, he'll start SCREAMING from whatever corner he's crammed himself in an effort to get the berkeley away from the vacuum cleaner.

Each and every time it scares the living E36 M3 out of me because i immediately think that he's managed to horribly injure himself somehow.

Yep. Never having human children, thanks.

Swank Force One wrote: Ummmm well.... My cat hates the vacuum so much that about once every 5 times i vacuum, he'll start SCREAMING from whatever corner he's crammed himself in an effort to get the berkeley away from the vacuum cleaner. Each and every time it scares the living E36 M3 out of me because i immediately think that he's managed to horribly injure himself somehow. Yep. Never having human children, thanks.

Hahaha!!

iceracer wrote: Phone ringing late at night after kids went to the Prom.

have to agree with Iceracer- this past Saturday was our first experience - 16 yr old son out with the car with his buddies - phone rings at 12:30am - amazing how quickly you wake - (thankfully he was just reporting in that the car had been clipped in the parking lot... nobody was hurt...)

From the next room where the kid is on the computer:

"Dad, what does Formatting C drive mean?? I clicked OK".

Conquest351 wrote: They're usually on their phones or on the computer or iPad or something, but you know what goes through my head.

I hate to tell you this, but they are much sneakier than you think.

The things I did when my highschool girlfriends parents were around... don't shake my hand! seriously though, if you're worried about them doing stuff... might as well let em go at it, cause you aint stoppin it

That's what I told my 17-year-old daughter when it became clear she was, uhhh, active. I said "I can't physically stop you from doing it, but I don't have to make it comfortable or convenient."

DirtyBird222 wrote: As a new parent none of this is reassuring. I will not be showing this thread to SWMBO.

Screaming is ok. That means they are still breathing.

Scott_H wrote: From the next room where the kid is on the computer: "Dad, what does Formatting C drive mean?? I clicked OK".

I laughed out loud on that one. It belongs in "Say What?"

Fueled by Caffeine wrote:

DirtyBird222 wrote: As a new parent none of this is reassuring. I will not be showing this thread to SWMBO.

Screaming is ok. That means they are still breathing.

haha, I've gotten that down. It's everything you guys are talking about. From being sneaky to worrying about boys at a older age. It makes changing a timing belt on a GM x-motor seem like cake.

mndsm wrote: You're gonna find out sooner or later. Mine is a daredevil- so I'm used to most head smacking noises....

yeah, i'm gradually getting used to this fact. mostly though, i just hope his head doesn't inherit the same gravity well mine did when i was a kid. 4 or 5 rounds of stitches, all on the face/head. i have no idea how i was able to lead into every accident with my face.

Duke wrote: That's what I told my 17-year-old daughter when it became clear she was, uhhh, active. I said "I can't physically stop you from doing it, but I don't have to make it comfortable or convenient."

Yeah, she and my wife have an agreement that she will tell when it happens. I'm preparing for a mental breakdown on the wife's part. I should just pull a Steve Harvey on him, "Whatever you doin with my baby girl, I'mma do wit you. You kissin on her, my man, we gon kiss. You holdin hands with her, brotha we holdin hands. You doin other stuff with my baby... boy, you best prepare yosef."