Topic: FREE healthy 2 year old boy to anyone that wants him

[kbfromvt_400F]

You're one lucky dad!

Wait, before you know it you'll be in my shoes.  My youngest is 20 and living on the road.  Calls one day because she needs $300 towards an old bus to travel and live in.  Three days later she was stuck by the side of the road somewhere in CA.   

Just give that kid of yours a big hug.  Before you know it he'll be asking for the key to the bike! 

That's one area I feel wise beyond my years.  Something my mother always told me when I started having kids was "Little kids little problems. Big kids big problems", I'd be like "yaya, whateva ma".

I'm not sure why or when it happened, but one day the big picture just sort of clicked in my head.  I'm only 28 and my oldest is 7 so I started having them young, unlike most (responsible) people who wait until they're more financially and mentally matured before they start conceiving.  But I revel in all of it now, and rarely lose my cool, at least in front of them.  I love the fact that they look up to me so much and want to spend so much time with me and if all else fails I can appease them with a $2.99 Happy Meal from McDonalds.  Seriously, a Happy Meal makes their week.  I'm not so much looking forward to the days when they call from the Police Station to ask for bail money. 

[Jonesy]

When I worked on antique outboards and my (then) 2+ year old daughter came along, I handed her her favorite red-handled nut driver and she pretended to loosen this and that.  Dull (safe) tool, colorful handle, happy kid!  Good luck and be happy they're interested and hanging out with you!

Dan...? Dan Kruitz? Our humble AOMCI Webmaster himself??!! (It's Dan Jones aka "Mr. Zephyr" here!)

Nice to see you over at the "other" board I frequent!

My grandpa gave me a beat-up old outboard to "repair" to keep me occupied. He didn't think that 15 years later I'd want to restore that outboard and have a much harder time of it due to all the parts I lost or broke trying to "repair" it originally...

[merc2dogs]

on the UBS,  it's Usually Bent or Stripped

 the only times my garage has been off limits to the kids is when I'm painting or doing something else that requires special protective measures other than safety glasses
 
 Though in my grandsons case, I'm thinking of making an exception, keep finding wrenches and screwdrivers out by his bicycle or the swingset.

Ken

[KB02]

Though in my grandsons case, I'm thinking of making an exception, keep finding wrenches and screwdrivers out by his bicycle or the swingset.

Ken

Yeah, I've got to get around to slapping my neighbor's kid (Who actually is my cousin, twice removed) up side the head. He has a tendency to wrench on his bicycles, which is great, but he leaves all his tools just sitting in the back yard. I can't tell you the number of wrenches and screw drivers I have picked up out of the grass. When getting ready to mow the lawn, I practically have to do a FOD walk.   

[ChevelleSSLS6]

  Edit:

 A while ago I built a 2.3 turbo, after the build I had it sitting in the garage while I worked on the car for it, so I placed rags in the intake/exhaust ports to keep crud and dust out of it. when I got ready to install it my 5yr old daughter was in the garage helping, got the tranny in while she was playing around with the motor, got ready to put the motor in went to pull the rags and didn't see them looked on the floor and Kendra was playing with the rags, no problem, so I install the upper manifold, hook everything up and start it up. and nothing, played around with it for a bit, and it would just turn over not start, it's got fuel, and I can hear the injectors clicking, so I start digging around, pull the intake back off and find that she had stuffed the rags as deep as she could into the intake ports and must have picked up other rags she was playing with. thought the valves would be toast because I had to take the entire intake off and rotate the motor around to get the rags out of the valves. turn it a bit, pull on the rags, took longer to get the rags out than it did to install the motor and trans in the first place.

Ken.

When I was 2 years old I helped my (real) dad change spark plugs on his welding truck...

I also stole the gascap (it was the old kind mounted right near the drivers door), and a bunch of dirt and gravel was found in the bottom of the fuel tank.  At least the engine had a fuel filter!

EDIT: I'll show this thread to my gf and she'll go "awwwwwwww...." lol.  What is it with innocent looking kids always up to mischief?  I was like that at one time too, don't worry he's a normal boy.  I used to leave the lawnmower key on at grandpa's house and kill the battery every time I went out there, among other things.