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Offline Supercuda

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #30 on: June 04, 2010 - 08:33:51 AM »
I'm glad that you got the response that you did, from him. Let's hope it wasn't just lip service. This may sound unkind, but I've seen enough insincerity to doubt anybody's actions or words. Keep up the faith, Al. I hope it's well placed.




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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #31 on: June 04, 2010 - 03:42:23 PM »
Thanks guys.  This is not going to be just a one day episode. He is a relative, so my eyes and ears are in tune to the events. I have already had him over again. This is summertime and school is out.  I constantly have neighborhood kids here. I try to just come up with outdoor event fun and work with them all. When they go inside, at times, Peggy (my wife) has them doing arts n craft, baking and inside games.  Just regular people is all we are. But care about our youth

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2010 - 05:44:43 PM »
There needs to be more neighborhoods like yours :2thumbs: I try to keep in touch with the youth in mine and promised one kid that if he keeps up the good grades and stays out of trouble, I will let him drive any of my cars. He really liked that idea and since he has always been a good kid, it seems likely one day he is gonna take me up on it................. :popcorn:  :burnout:

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #33 on: June 04, 2010 - 05:53:57 PM »
 Al, when and if I grow up I want to be just like you! :clapping: Seriously I was sure I never had the patcience to be a GOOD parent and listning to you I was right. Your the man! :worshippy
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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #34 on: June 04, 2010 - 07:13:16 PM »
Today we have been getting a lesson on installing a tube in a mini motor cycle.  Ever try it?  It will test your patience when a 6yr old boy is trying to wait with excitment. 2 tubes and the inner part of the rim some how poked a hole in them both. Now we are putting patches on the tubes :smilielol:  This is no new bike either and we tried to get the rust out of the inside and cant find the object that is pricking the tube. Go cart time for the little one while we get his bike going before dark. He weedeated the grass just to buy the tube. 

His 15 yr old brother is here taking a 318 apart so we can build his first engine together. His dad is here to. Were doing a 9.5/1 comp 318 with 340/360 heads and a small cam. We are putting it all in a chevy S10 , the old box type one. He has Mopar sticker in the back window. His friends are telling him impossible, but has faith in my abillities. This is a fun project for their whole family. They don't have a shop. Just very good honest christian neighbors that don't have anything new and exciting and never cry about not having anything. I keep 200 popsickles in my freezer and plenty of drinks so they can just enjoy themselves when playing. And they want to work for a little money so they can buy things like tire tubes, basket balls and batmitten sets. I never hear them whine.  I was showing the daughter this last month how to take care of a garden, steer and drive the lawn mower, and let her play with my pet birds I keep in a room and out in the open so they can fly around.  well, back to the tube now.   ::)

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #35 on: June 08, 2010 - 10:47:17 PM »
Wish you were my dad!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #36 on: June 09, 2010 - 10:32:42 AM »
Alan, Will you adopt me ? Love ya, hun.  :-*

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #37 on: June 09, 2010 - 05:25:15 PM »
 :woo: darn it al,you had me all choked up too.  :thumbsup: hopefully you can turn this young man around and put some stability in his life.like the others have said,needs a male figure in his life and i can't think of no other than you.even though i never met you,i can tell how generous and understanding and giving you are from this forum.keep at it with this lad and he may turn his life around.i have no idea what i would have done at first,probably what cuda hunter suggested and would have flew off the handle.  :lol:
next time your in minnesota[st.paul] come on over and straighten out my seven year old son.  :lol:  :thumbsup:

 :cheers: to ya al

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Re: Kids and nature ( im holding back)
« Reply #38 on: June 09, 2010 - 06:38:06 PM »
Wow Al, that's a pretty awesome story! We need more people like you in the world! My nephew is turning a turd and his Mom either doesn't see it or doesn't care. He talks to adults so disrespectful and his mom never says anything! I would put my kid on the wall for a long time if he talked like that to adults! And by wall I mean wall-sits, thats how we do punishment in our house. Military style PT punishment! It works, trust me. The kids hate it! Push-ups and wall sits!
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