{"id":2527,"date":"2011-05-30T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2011-05-28T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T21:55:13","slug":"3-going-on-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/05\/30\/3-going-on-13\/","title":{"rendered":"3 going on 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.<\/em> — King Lear<\/p>\n

“You know what I was thinking today?” asked Finn as we walked away from our first baseball game.
\n“Uh, what?” I asked, kind of taken aback. (I’d never heard him initiate that kind of question.)
\n“You say too much silly stuff, Dad-O. It’s a bunch of jibber jabber.”
\nNow I was really surprised. “Well, I’m just trying to be funny, bud. You don’t like it?”
\n“I like<\/em> it,” Finn replied, trying to humor me, “but… it’s just not cool<\/em> to listen to.”<\/p>\n

And thus a very small fist landed in my solar plexus.<\/p>\n

Later in the tub, I broached the issue again.
\n“You don’t like it when we joke around, Finny?”
\n“No,” he shook his head. “It’s just too nonsense-y.”<\/p>\n

Now, I’m sure that anyone who has kids older than 3 will say that this is about the mildest rejection\/rebuke one could experience at the hands of one’s child. Still, though, “the first cut is the deepest,” and it’s hard to hear of one’s uncoolness–especially from such a young guy!<\/p>\n

Not to worry, though: Finn’s with me in the gazebo now, firing off streams of jibberish and proudly declaring, “That’s Spanish!<\/em> I’m talking like a baby speaking Spanish!” There is no escape from the old man’s weird undertow. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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