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Show ' It's not easy being a Parent but it's Fun ... I guess hours of little league, Big League, football, basketball and assorted other sports endeavors. You'll need bikes in various sizes and an unlimited supply of toy guns, bows and arrows, matchbox mat-chbox cars, dump trucks, and levis with double knees. Girl's requirements are a little different. Parents of girls must have ears able to withstand high pitched squealing and giggling. Hair clips, rollers and pins and yards and yards of material are also essential. Their main concern from the time they say their first words on will be new outfits for every occasion so you'll save money if you buy a sewing machine and learn to sew.. Girls need rooms with pink curtains and plenty of shelves for dolls, stuffed toys, and pictures of Robert Redford. You'll need a good makeup remover to take off . your makeup from your ' daughter, the1 walls,'' the ' bathroom sink and the pillow slips. And, I guess with women's liberation you'll also need a few dump trucks, a catchers mitt, and a seat on the bleachers. By Mary Gac Evans PAROWAN - The calendar says spring is here. I feel like running down the street like Paul Revere to announce it-or at least walking along the ditch bank to look for the first dandelion. Spring signals the beginning of new life, plant, animal and human. So, if you are the parents of a new baby or if you are making plans to be, there are a few things you should know. First of all, you must realize what a big step you are taking-a step into the busiest time of your life, the most frightening, frustrating, exasperating, and rewarding time you've ever had. Now you understand that I also feel obligated to furnish you with a list of things you will need to raise your little one in a proper manner. You thought all you. needed was baby clothes and a crib didn't you? Well, there's more to it than that, especially if the baby is a boy. The following is a list of requirements to raising boys: first and most important, nerves of steel and the ability to refrain from fainting at the sight of blood; an ability to tolerate high levels of noise; furniture that will hold up when jumped on repeatedly; and good tough carpeting, make to withstand hundreds of toys with wheels running over it. A lawn of iron that will be used as a football field, baseball diamond and general roustabout area is helpful. Plus, a basketball hoop on a level piece of ground and a good digging area to last through small dump trucks to underground un-derground huts. Parents of boy babies will also need a good tough bottom for sitting on bleachers through hours and |