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Post by aztec70 on Aug 8, 2010 7:16:40 GMT -8
My 15 year old just reached that lofty height and he is so happy. I am only a tad taller than him and figure that by Christmas he will be taller. I am wondering what it will be like to be shorter than my son for the rest of my life. ;D
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 8, 2010 8:57:04 GMT -8
My 15 year old just reached that lofty height and he is so happy. I am only a tad taller than him and figure that by Christmas he will be taller. I am wondering what it will be like to be shorter than my son for the rest of my life. ;D MY adopted Jewish son is about six inches taller than I am. Given that I am convinced that I am shrinking with old age, I expect that he will eventually be 8 or more inches taller. He is a very mellow kid who loves music and math (double major at State). He is the same kid who was the leading scorer in Mira Mesa Youth Soccer for several years in a row. My wife and I were his coaches for most of those years, and we made certain that he spent half of every game as keeper so he would not run up the score. He did, never the less when playing forward for only half of each game. One year he decided that he wanted to play Pop Warner. I worked with him for several weeks before the tryouts and even though the team had three returning QB's (One from the previous season, one who had moved up in age and one who transferred in) Josh was the starting QB inside of three days. In basketball, for the regional championship he scored the winning basket from midcourt as the clock ran out. Anything he wanted to do he could do it. After that season he decided to just concentrate on music and math and gave up sports entirely. Such is life! These Jewish boys can sure work miracles. |
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 8, 2010 11:16:01 GMT -8
My 15 year old just reached that lofty height and he is so happy. I am only a tad taller than him and figure that by Christmas he will be taller. I am wondering what it will be like to be shorter than my son for the rest of my life. ;D MY adopted Jewish son is about six inches taller than I am. Given that I am convinced that I am shrinking with old age, I expect that he will eventually be 8 or more inches taller. He is a very mellow kid who loves music and math (double major at State). He is the same kid who was the leading scorer in Mira Mesa Youth Soccer for several years in a row. My wife and I were his coaches for most of those years, and we made certain that he spent half of every game as keeper so he would not run up the score. He did, never the less when playing forward for only half of each game. One year he decided that he wanted to play Pop Warner. I worked with him for several weeks before the tryouts and even though the team had three returning QB's (One from the previous season, one who had moved up in age and one who transferred in) Josh was the starting QB inside of three days. In basketball, for the regional championship he scored the winning basket from midcourt as the clock ran out. Anything he wanted to do he could do it. After that season he decided to just concentrate on music and math and gave up sports entirely. Such is life! These Jewish boys can sure work miracles. I hope he can write and has a fertile imagination. Do we have a chance at him be the next generation "AztecJoe"? |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 8, 2010 16:53:04 GMT -8
MY adopted Jewish son is about six inches taller than I am. Given that I am convinced that I am shrinking with old age, I expect that he will eventually be 8 or more inches taller. He is a very mellow kid who loves music and math (double major at State). He is the same kid who was the leading scorer in Mira Mesa Youth Soccer for several years in a row. My wife and I were his coaches for most of those years, and we made certain that he spent half of every game as keeper so he would not run up the score. He did, never the less when playing forward for only half of each game. One year he decided that he wanted to play Pop Warner. I worked with him for several weeks before the tryouts and even though the team had three returning QB's (One from the previous season, one who had moved up in age and one who transferred in) Josh was the starting QB inside of three days. In basketball, for the regional championship he scored the winning basket from midcourt as the clock ran out. Anything he wanted to do he could do it. After that season he decided to just concentrate on music and math and gave up sports entirely. Such is life! These Jewish boys can sure work miracles. I hope he can write and has a fertile imagination. Do we have a chance at him be the next generation "AztecJoe"? He reads my stuff and thinks it is funny as hell, but claims he has no writing ability. |
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Post by Pssst13 on Aug 9, 2010 11:20:58 GMT -8
My 16 YO has been taller than me since he was 13 YO. I'm 5'7" and he is taller... I've gotten used to it but the most important thing is he still looks up to me.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 13, 2010 10:11:34 GMT -8
My 16 YO has been taller than me since he was 13 YO. I'm 5'7" and he is taller... I've gotten used to it but the most important thing is he still looks up to me. That is the most important thing in raising a boy. You must conduct yourself every day in every manner so that your son sees in you a man of total integrity. He will copy your values and standards, and you want that to be a family tradition. My wife and I took in troubled children from a Christian agency that handled those children for the State of California. We took in three siblings, Donny, Crystal and Brandon. They were hell on wheels and constantly getting in trouble at school, but they were under control in my house except for their fighting and hitting of each other. That was the environment that they had been raised in in their mother's house. She was an outlaw Biker Mama and heavily addicted to Crystal Meth, hence the name for her daughter. She used during all of her pregnancies and all of her kids were brain damaged and violent. We advised the agency that the kids posed a potential serious danger to each other, and it was decided to place them in different Christian homes. We kept Donnie while Brandon and Crystal went to two different homes. We had all three for over a year before they were separated. During that time Donnie had been arrested three times at school for telling the teachers to "f x x x Off" and then climbing up on the roof and running all over the place daring the police to come up and get him. I really liked him because he was such a fired up little ass hole of a character, and I wanted to turn him heavily to sports. Well that experiment went on for several years. During that time I would take Donnie to meet regularly with his brother and sister, both of whom totally busted out of the foster care system because they were too violent and even threatened to knife their foster parents. Crystal had pulled a knife on somebody at school, so they were in Psychiatric Group Homes for seriously disturbed kids. On one of the visits to see the other two kids, I was walking up towards Brandon with Donnie walking with me, and Brandon called out loud so all of the staff could hear him very clearly, "Here comes Mr. N. He was the damn best father I ever had. He would never take any of my $#!+!" The faces on the staff showed tremendous surprise, and they all offered to shake my hand when I reached them. Boys remember authority and propriety. When you project it in proper fashion, they respond to it appropriately. I never had a problem with Donnie, but the powers that be decided to put him in a Psychiatric Group Home, too when he started threatening his classmates with death if they ticked him off. He was deemed too unsafe to raise outside of a psychiatric facility. That was a shame, because we had him very civilized at home. In all sports he was the model athlete and was gifted. In school he was a problem. The schools did not have the authority that he needed to keep him in check. Most of the Crystal Meth babies are messed up. There are hundreds of thousands of them in our systems nationwide. Many end up in psychiatric care facilities because of their brain damage in uteral development. If a pregnant mother to be uses Crystal Meth, she will seriously damage her developing childrens' brains. |
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Post by joshjones1 on Aug 13, 2010 10:19:29 GMT -8
How about Brandon, is he still in the psychiatric home?
That was nice of you to take them in.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 13, 2010 13:24:42 GMT -8
How about Brandon, is he still in the psychiatric home? That was nice of you to take them in. If my math is right, Brandon should be twenty now. I have not heard from him in over eight years now. I heard from Donnie about four years ago. He was in special education classes at El Capitan High School and expected to graduate. He was about 19 at the time, so he should be 23 or thereabouts. All three of the children are essentially adults. If at age 18 they are judged to be incapable of taking care of theirselves, they are placed on Social Security and spend the rest of their lives as wards of the state. There are probably half a million of those youngsters on Social Security all across the nation now. And people wonder where our social security money is going? It is going to support all of the brain damaged kids of mothers who used crystal meth as a recreational chemical. |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Aug 13, 2010 15:24:04 GMT -8
How about Brandon, is he still in the psychiatric home? That was nice of you to take them in. If my math is right, Brandon should be twenty now. I have not heard from him in over eight years now. I heard from Donnie about four years ago. He was in special education classes at El Capitan High School and expected to graduate. He was about 19 at the time, so he should be 23 or thereabouts. All three of the children are essentially adults. If at age 18 they are judged to be incapable of taking care of theirselves, they are placed on Social Security and spend the rest of their lives as wards of the state. There are probably half a million of those youngsters on Social Security all across the nation now. And people wonder where our social security money is going? It is going to support all of the brain damaged kids of mothers who used crystal meth as a recreational chemical. I'm sure that's the case with a lot or maybe even most of them, but I did go to City College with a woman who was collecting social security benefits until a certain age, I think 21, because her father had died (I really don't remember the details and it may have been her mother collecting them and giving them to her, but IIRC, 40+ years later, I think they came directly to the daughter). Of course, there were no such things as meth babies in those days - all the speed was pharmaceutical - got me through a lot of all-night term paper sessions  . =Bob |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2010 11:33:56 GMT -8
My 15 year old just reached that lofty height and he is so happy. I am only a tad taller than him and figure that by Christmas he will be taller. I am wondering what it will be like to be shorter than my son for the rest of my life. ;D My son Shea was 6 when he was 13,now he is six three. I was always the runt in the family at 6'.and change,now have shrunk below six foot. |
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Post by jcljorgenson on Aug 19, 2010 15:34:37 GMT -8
My dad is 6' 0" and at the end of eighth grade, I was 6' 0." I was a basketball player and was sure I would be at least 6' 3" or 6' 4" by my senior year. I am nearly forty years old now, guess my height? Yes, 6' 0", the same as my dad -(although he is shrinking a bit now). I basically never grew another inch after junior high.
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