My 4 Year Old Can't

[crokett]

go to school any more. This morning she announced that she had a boyfriend. I asked her teacher about it and she said the boy in question is quite enamored of my daughter. As well he should be but I said no dating till she's 30 and I meant it.

[Uncle Cracker]

You probably should kill him now, just to be on the safe side...

[cgallery]

What are this young man's prospects? Will he be able to support your daughter the a manner she has become accustomed?

[radhak]

I think you are showing your bias and jumping the gun. You could at least have a man-to-man talk with him, find out if his intentions are honorable!

[Ed62]

Do not take any chances. Get him before he gets you.

Ed

[pacwind3]

You probably should kill him now, just to be on the safe side...

as the father of three daughters, I'd have to agree. Kill him now.

[rjwaldren]

My four year old daughter is in the process of tormenting a boy in her Pre-K class that likes her. The first time I saw it, I looked at the teacher and said "that was brutal" but we both were restraining laughs.

She's so consistent that I can't help but thinking that she knows exactly what she's doing and I probably honing a skill that will haunt me later. But I can't bring myself to tell her she should be nicer to the little punk. It's not that what she's doing is bad, she's just withholding the extra attention he wants, I'm cool with letting it slide.

[crokett]

What are this young man's prospects? Will he be able to support your daughter the a manner she has become accustomed?

Well... he apparently is good at counting and building with blocks. So I guess he will grow up to be an engineer. Since he doesn't have a job, I'm thinking no to the second part.

[Alex Franke]

Dude -- I'm SO SORRY. I had *no idea* that my son was ditching his school every day and hitching a ride out to Mebane to court your daughter.

I've had this talk with him a few times already... I guess I'll just have to do it again... (sigh!)



BTW, please don't kill him! He's a great kid!

[jackellis]

David, if you think you have problems now, just wait 'til she's a teenager. That's when your problems really begin

One thing I have never been able to figure out is how girls (and women) get so good at wrapping men around their little fingers, even when sex isn't involved. My niece, now 21, could sweet talk her uncles (my brother and me) into doing just about anything.

[Pappy]

Invite the boy over to spend some time in the shop with you. If he shows an interest, AND displays some talent, for woodworking he's a keeper. If not, you have a lot of sharp tools that could cause an ACCIDENT...

[Mrs. Wallnut]

David,

Just wait till she is about 12 and is in 7th grade and a dance comes up at school and you hear your daughter talking to someone about getting a date.... And yes this is from experience because there is a school dance on
Friday at the Junior high where the twins go and that is what I heard her tell her brother. And of course being the good mother said something like "you don't need a date to go to a dance" and I just about passed out when her response to that was, "I know mom but I want a date."

And after all these years of telling her that boys are mean and nasty and they stink, well some of them, and she still doesn't believe me. And I know this is just the begining of my problems, I still have to make it through her high school years.

I see more gray hair and more frequent hair dying to make it through those years.

[Scottydont]

I have two boys and I am waiting for that day. If I had a daughter I'd be putting my arm over the shoulder of the boy and tell 'em " I've been to prison and I'm not afraid to go back!" (Just smacks of Al Bundy, don't it?)

I can say that without lying because I played in a charity softball game in the local prison.

[Alex Franke]

I can say that without lying because I played in a charity softball game in the local prison.

That's hilarious!

[pierhogunn]

I have a reinforced door jamb for just such bundying of my little girls sig.others...