The kids and I made another trek into the world of waterparkopia. The observations this time were disturbing to the point that I need to share this information so that it made be spread, people will learn from it and the world will indeed be a better place.
The kids were playing on one of those spray ground things. You know the kind with slides and steps and giant buckets of water that fill up and dump every few seconds. I was sitting at the bottom observing as I often do. The following are my most recent observations.
I was impressed to see the amount of toddlers that were being allowed to discover the playset on their own without an adult close enough to "fix" whatever they were getting into. I am more and more impressed with this as I observe life. I now think it is extremely important to allow a child to make their own mistakes and learn from them. If you are always fixing your child's mistakes how are they to learn how to do it on their own when you are gone.
The thing is, there was this one 2 year old walking around without an escort but with a straw. The kind of straw you drink with...at a water park. The 2 year old was taking the straw and putting it in the drains all around the spray ground and getting himself a drink. Every drain. Lots of drinks. On a positive note that child is going to have a crazy strong immune system. You know after he gets past the diarrhea and vomiting.
Thing two that I observed. While I am a firm believer in buying clothing that will fit my children for more than one season I have decided that this is not to be done with swim suits. If the child's swimsuit is too large there is a problem, with boys it is a horrible crack problem, and with girls it is the appearance to have dropped a load if you know what I mean. Not attractive either way.
Thing three. Manscaping. I understand that men have hair on their chests. However, if you only have small patches of hair around your nipples and it looks like two little troll dolls have attached themselves to your moobs and are holding on for dear life you have got to trim those bad boys up!
Thing four. The white swimsuit be it male or female looks way better dry than wet.
Thing five. If you are not going to bother yourself with the opinions of others in whether or not you are too big or too small for your swimsuit I can appreciate that. You can be fierce in anything you choose to put on. However, could you at least make sure that all of the parts that typically don't see the light of day are still covered or at the very least have impaired vision?
