Parenting Tip # 407D

Today's tip is useful anytime a child says, "My stomach doesn't feel good, I feel like I'm going to throw up."

Preface this with, we had just finished eating a yummy supper at the Subway located inside Wal-Mart (of course, that's all I have to say and you immediately understand). As we entered in the main concourse, Shayla proclaims that her stomach doesn't feel to well. Jawana and I look at each other and I say, "better take her to the bathroom just in case."

As they proceed to walk away, they get about 2 steps away and "Blech" all over the floor, right next to the halloween candy display at the Bakery. No better place for that, right?

The door lady was tracking us from the moment we left the Subway, and she was on her walkie talkie faster than the TSA reporting an Islamic Terrorist on an American Airlines flight. (fyi, on my last trip to Los Angeles, there was a guy flying on the plane who was wearing a turbin and had the beard and everything. One of my co-workers spotted him and said, "There's Bin Laden!" As far as celebrity sightings go, it was scary... not so much the fact that he looked like Bin Laden, but that a guy with a turbin was on my flight.)

Back to my parenting tip. So, as soon as a child says their stomach doesn't feel well and they think they are going to throw up; when you are in a public place, there is really nothing you can do. Just stand clear and hope the cleaning staff at the store arrives in a timely manner!

In other news, it's hard to believe that I'll be married in 4 weeks. Jawana is out on her girls night out right now. So, I'm blogging... hmmm... we really should be doing a JK show right now! Dangit!

Speaking of the show, I was in O'Charley's last night and our waitresses was proclaiming how she found my MySpace page, and then listened to some of our radio shows. She was like, "You guys are weird, but very funny!" I knew there was a reason we were the 3rd most listened to talk show on the internet! Weird and Funny! That's the ticket!

We've been in this pre-marriage counseling class for like 8 weeks now. It meets every Sunday night for 2 hours, and has an additional 5 hours of homework a week. That is pretty hard core right there. I'm glad we're doing it though, because we both had a lot to learn about how to make a marriage work successfully. Our next goal is to take Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University class. I'm looking forward to it!

Yesterday afternoon at the gym, The Playboy was saying he thought that once he got out of school, he would never open another textbook again. But he realized that you can't graduate stop learning, because you get left behind.

It's the same story I preach to everyone. You can not just sit back and veg out. You must continually be reading books and learning new stuff, because this is a knowledge driven economy. Skilled labor is going the way of the dinosaur. Look at how robots have revolutionized factories. Look at how CNC machines have replaced skilled machinists.

On these trips I go on for quality audits; to factories, machine shops, plants etc... it makes me so thankful my parents showed me the importance of getting an education. Blue collar vs. White collar. While there is nothing inherinently wrong with working a Blue Collar job, your chances of success seem to be much smaller than in a white collar position.

By success I mean, living an easy low stress life. Having family time. Not worrying about bills and food.

Grant it, a lot of White Collar folks have these problems, because they are poor managers of their resources, time and money. However, when anyone manages these 2 things wisely, that is when true success can be made (not going to go into the whole religious debate right now. That is important, but we can discuss at a later post)

So, never stop learning. Don't have any "talent's" or "hobbies"? Try something new. You'll probably surprise yourself!