My Son, Whom I Will Miss

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

My wife discovered something the other day while cleaning the house. First, a little background. I have probably mentioned in past blogs that we have a regimen of supplements in the form of pills, capsules or chewables. The daily dose contains the following (give or take)…

• Cod Liver Oil (3 or 4 pills)
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin B
• Vitamin D
• Acidophilus
• Etc (depending on if there are sniffles present or not)

The kids knock down the C, D and acidophilus and even the cod liver oil with little effort. The vitamin B, for whatever reason, causes them to gag. It is chewable and some fruity flavor but they can't stomach it. The son usually takes the C with the B in a bizarre version of "a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down." We often joke about being full before any real breakfast is served. Fast forward to yesterday when the wife discovered a stash of Bs and Cs down in one of the heat vents. Ironically, B is supposed to help him with behavioral problems as it has a calming effect. Official punishment is still pending.

Another thing we are constantly on him about is his finger (and to some extent his toe) nails. His recent excuse for not keeping his finger nails trimmed is based on the need for long "claws" (like Mufasa in The Lion King) in case he should find himself hanging from a cliff. The sad thing is that he actually thinks this excuse will work and his mother and I will say, "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, that's why, ok." Pointing out that Mufasa fell OFF the cliff to his death does not sway him from his reasoning so I had to take another approach, namely math. He is studying odds and ratios (among other things) currently. I appealed to logic in that while the odds of surviving a "hanging from a cliff" type experience MIGHT be higher with longer nails, the odds of being thrown OFF a cliff (by say, your mother) are exponentially higher and the net result is that it is MORE dangerous to have long claws than to keep them trim.

Well it is about time to get ready for work.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon