"Cobra"
thoughts?!
Middle name "Commander"?
If so, then yes
First name Iamthee
Quote from: DucatiBastard on May 24, 2011, 08:21:53 PM
Middle name "Commander"?
If so, then yes
Then it's GO JOE!! [thumbsup]
iz..?
remind me of your last name so we can think up some proper initials! [evil]
OK..so it's not baby Iz's name but my wife's former coworkers did have a baby last week and Cobra was the name.
And..it is after GI Joe!!
I guess I should've put this in the WTF thread!
???
I think it'd qualify.
middle name should be VsHoneyBadger
Quote from: IZ on May 24, 2011, 08:15:09 PM
"Cobra"
thoughts?!
My .02? Cruel and unusual...
unless of course one is grooming their offspring to be a ghetto street drug lord
or king of the trailer park
I haven't met Cobra boy yet and yes Rat, I feel like it is cruel as well.
Quote from: IZ on May 25, 2011, 01:19:58 AM
I haven't met Cobra boy yet and yes Rat, I feel like it is cruel as well.
Unless it was a family name going back 5 generations in a family of impossible wealth,,,,, I would say it is self-indulgent,
naming a child after a venomous reptile that eats rats ...wow how kewl is that?
demonstrates a rather short-sighted and whimsical attitude toward parenting
and sets the kid up with something to either live up to or perpetually live down
if I was still a hiring manager trust me if the name Cobra Smith crossed my desk on a resume it would not be at the top of the stack for 2 reasons
whoever gave the candidate that name was a complete moron and the prospects of them raising someone stellar are too remote to contemplate
anyone named that,, who did not go to court and legally change their name is beyond consideration
maybe I am old and anachronistic but I am a big fan of low-key stealth folks who amaze you with their brains not with their names, clothes etc etc
no shortage of dumb when it comes to parenting in America
Quote from: RAT900 on May 25, 2011, 01:41:09 AM
no shortage of dumb when it comes to parenting in America
and while we're on that point..
My sister-in-law and her husband (one graduated UofM law and the other has an MBA from Stanford while both are engineers) were staying with us last week along with their 16 month old. Cute kid but he screamed almost the entire time they were here! His parents put him in daycare all day M-F. When they are with him, they let him play with things he shouldn't play with, i.e.: cell phones, laptops, plugs, wires, etc. Seriously, wtf?! ??? So, the kid wants to play with everyone's cell phones and laptops.
He screams..scratch that..he squeals like a d*mn piglet when he can't play with the said items of everyone he encounters. [roll] So they can't take him anywhere. Seriously, the kid is a nightmare and is only going to get worse!! Obviously, the father (and mother)..who let him play with a plug in the wall as I look on in disbelief..fall right into the dumb parent category. [bang]
My son has great affection for things like cellphones and laptops... we don't let him play with them, he just really likes them. He also loves the remote control for the tv... He's been like this since he was seven months old... I've never seen anything like it.
Quote from: Adamm3406 on May 25, 2011, 02:41:55 AM
My son has great affection for things like cellphones and laptops... we don't let him play with them, he just really likes them. He also loves the remote control for the tv... He's been like this since he was seven months old... I've never seen anything like it.
This kid likes them as well. Like I said, his parents are engineers. He watches you do something once and then he imitates it to the tee. He's very mechanical. It's kind of bizzare how smart he is. Which scares me. :-X :-X :-X When he isn't allowed to do something, he squeals until they let him. I experienced this twice during an entire road trip. I told him he couldn't touch the laptop and the cellphone several times. He should have his own toy laptop, cellphone, etc. The outlet encounter was crazy though! He ripped the cord out of the socket and his dad let him plug it back in. For a 16 mo/old, the kid is very small. His fingers could easily fit into an outlet. His dad also let him chew on the printer cord. [bang]
My 13 month old is like tht.. she's been putting a phone to her ear since before a year old.. fake talks on it.. laptops also.she'll cry if you take anything away though, that's baby nature.. but we still takes things away trying to teach her you can't have everything.. eventually it'll sink in.. she is dangerously smart.. started mimicking since 1 month old..
Quote from: IZ on May 25, 2011, 03:00:37 AM
This kid likes them as well. Like I said, his parents are engineers. He watches you do something once and then he imitates it to the tee. He's very mechanical. It's kind of bizzare how smart he is. Which scares me. :-X :-X :-X When he isn't allowed to do something, he squeals until they let him. I experienced this twice during an entire road trip. I told him he couldn't touch the laptop and the cellphone several times. He should have his own toy laptop, cellphone, etc. The outlet encounter was crazy though! He ripped the cord out of the socket and his dad let him plug it back in. For a 16 mo/old, the kid is very small. His fingers could easily fit into an outlet. His dad also let him chew on the printer cord. [bang]
Do they have a large insurance policy on the kid? I believe you can't spoil a toddler, but the child still needs limits and you are responsible for the child's safety.
Quote from: IZ on May 25, 2011, 03:00:37 AM
His dad also let him chew on the printer cord. [bang]
Yikes. My
cats seem to know better than to chew on cords.
.....and at the other extreme I have a daughter who is raising (engineering) my grandson
to be the embodiment of all her naive social conceits and notions of the world as an Eden-like Commune ......tripe and hubris abound
and no she didn't name him "Sun Blossom" thank God....
but this kid is going to be in for some rude awakenings when he realizes the world is not playing by the same rules he is being infused with
I have asked her to raise a child rather than a personal social statement by proxy
nothing wrong with instilling a value system in a child...
but make it one that incorporates adaptability and most importantly teach the child how to think and reason for himself...how to employ ideation how to abstract
not just a programmed drone kid that is taught what to believe in....we have the school system for that
Good God where did I go wrong with her?
Quote from: howie on May 25, 2011, 03:59:05 AM
Do they have a large insurance policy on the kid? I believe you can't spoil a toddler, but the child still needs limits and you are responsible for the child's safety.
Right!
When he was doing it by me, I pulled his hand back and said "No..Owie!!". When he did it again, I said the same and took him away from the outlet/plug/cord. Then he cried until his dad let him do it. [bang]
By then, I wanted to slap the kid's hand and then his dad!
Rat..I hear ya!
A 16 month old throwing a fit when told no is completely normal. I'm living through it now with a 19 month old. Ugh. [roll] Tantrums are usually short lived for us because my wife and I don't put up with it.
Parents putting up with tantrums and giving in isn't acceptable IMO...although it isn't always easy standing your ground.
...and a big [thumbsdown] on Cobra! [laugh]
Yes, normal but the would scream for literally an hour if he didn't get what he wanted. That actually did happen. The kid screamed at everything! Kid being that old too should have at least one word. Babbled a bit but screamed most of the time. I was talking about how language development with them but they didn't want to listen because they're highly educated". :p my BA and MA in Speech Pathology and Audiology aren't good enough apparently. Argh! Still hear the kid squealing like tinutus in my ear and it's been 3 days since they left back to MI!