It’s In The Details

Posted in: Family, parenting

The difference between the first child and the second child can be absolutely amazing. Jonas pushed me away and was eager to run around and be independent almost immediately. Maggie clings and cuddles and worries about strangers. Jonas was colicky and had difficulties sleeping while Maggie is calm and slept through the night so early I thought something was wrong with her. But the really stunning difference is that while child number one was El Numero Uno and Child-Extrordinaire by default, is that child number two has always had a sibling.

My mother, and many other wise people say that this results in a naturally more patient child simply because it’s impossible to dote on subsequent children with the same intensity that one does with a first. In Maggie’s case, this is certainly true, whether by nature or nurture, she is more patient. But the difference that I would like to point out, and that I feel really defines the situation, is this: Child number one gets caught playing in the toilet. Child number two gets caught playing in a yellow toilet.

POSTED BY Lou ON 01.27.06 @ 2:46 am |

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  1. So disgusting. So very very true.

    Comment by mom on a wire — January 27, 2006 @ 3:33 am

  2. LOL….yuck!

    Comment by Adrienne — January 27, 2006 @ 3:44 am

  3. ohhh I about spit when I read that, too funny and very well put!! :)

    Comment by Leslie — January 27, 2006 @ 5:35 am

  4. ewww! Yellow toilet!

    Comment by for Joke! — January 27, 2006 @ 11:32 am

  5. At least it wasn’t a brown toilet. :)

    Comment by capello — January 27, 2006 @ 3:57 pm

  6. That’s a noteable distinction! :-)

    Comment by tj — January 27, 2006 @ 11:03 pm

  7. Oh so true. I thought in the begining that my daughter was just tougher. Nope she is just patient. Good post!!

    Comment by J.D. — January 27, 2006 @ 11:35 pm

  8. eewwwwwwww! Just think how number three and (in my case at least…) four might be! ;)

    Comment by Lawanda — January 28, 2006 @ 3:50 am

  9. Happy blogday: for next year: less vomiting, more readers and great things for you and your family. By the way, you have a friend featured on my site today…

    Comment by scott — January 29, 2006 @ 6:20 pm

  10. the gospel truth

    Comment by fidget — January 30, 2006 @ 12:28 am

  11. LOL! So what does this have to say about a parent’s patience?

    Comment by chrysalis — January 30, 2006 @ 2:13 pm

  12. Too funny!!
    Mary

    Comment by owlhaven — February 2, 2006 @ 5:26 am

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