Mothers and fathers are different, too

You can tell kids till you are blue in the face, but sometimes they just have to learn. How moms and dads do this is often different.

We all know boys and girls are different. Getting ready for summer camp is a good example. The 12 year old girl was totally organized, used the camp checklist, and was packed and ready to go days early. The 15 year old boy was a little slower (I’m being kind), and a 14 hour final process came to his announcing he was packed and ready. Both camps are boys and girls only, but also start at the same time. There are good reasons for this.

Now it comes to pass both girl and boy don’t have rain coats and extra laundry bags, and I am supposed to carry it all out to camps, according to the mother, now on vacation in Germany. Well, I am a proud dad, and like I said early on, you can tell ‘em till you are blue in the face, but sometimes they just have to learn. So screw ‘em. If they forgot their raincoats, then they can get wet, or beg, or more likely make a field expedient rain coat from a plastic trash bag or sheet.

That’ll teach ‘em. Thank goodness mother is in Germany.