I'm not superstitious but I do believe that everything we have experienced in the past will help us in some situation in the future. Basically, the definition of learning.
Reacting to an extreme situation is much less shocking to someone who has experienced other extreme situations. You learn to accept the situation and quickly adapt to form the proper response.
Case in point 1: My brother-in-law (A) is a paramedic/firefighter and doesn't flinch at the sight of blood and gore. He follows a programmed response he's learned and tends to the situation at hand.
Case in point 2: Our dog has seizures. He started having them when he was about 2 1/2, roughly 6 months after we adopted him. When they first began it scared the hell out of us. We never knew when they would happen and in the beginning it was hard to sleep at night for fear of waking up to his thrashing. Now, we just make sure he's not on a carpet and keep his head from hitting anything hard and time the event. Prior conditioning has enabled us to handle an awful situation like it's normal.
All of the stories on this blog about DaKids so far are a fraction of the total events that have occurred in the last 2 years. I realized just how selective my memory can be after the birth of DaBoy. So many things happened with DaGirl that we both forgot about and were rudely reminded of with DaBoy. That's the reason for starting this in the first place, to record those stories.
So, if ones history will help one deal with their future, what on earth are DaKids preparing us for with all of their antics?
A career in the sanitation department perhaps?
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If you didn't forget, you wouldn't have had DaBoy.
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