These Things I Wish For My Grandchildren

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches. I really would. I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your dog put to sleep. I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it’s all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he’s scared, I hope you let him. When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you’ll let him. I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don’t ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won’t be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom. If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like. May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. I don’t care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don’t like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend. I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor’s window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand. These things I wish for you - tough times and hard work, disappointment and happiness. To me, it’s the only way to appreciate life. Written with a pen. QuotaBills Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin Quack: A duck's Doctor - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine. - Martin H. Fischer The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. - French Proverb Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. - German Proverb No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. - Robert Burton Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown I'm on a whiskey diet. 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23-Sep-2021