Dallas was diagnosed with asthma the other day. It is a fact that didn't catch me entirely off guard but it did make me think about how life as we now live it could change. I am at a meeting in New Orleans and my roommate is a woman who has had asthma all her life. We started talking about it and she shared that when she was a child her mother told her to never smoke. When she asked her mother why, her mother told her that if she smoked, she would immediately die (because of the asthma). She never doubted her mom and her entire adolescence she was too petrified to try smoking on the off chance that her mother was right. I LOVE THIS LOGIC. So, last night when there was nothing else on television, I watched a show on MTV (please save your judgement) called "16 and pregnant". Man, every girl on that show was so stupid. But, I digress. It dawned on me that I don't ever want my son to get a 16 year old girl pregnant, so I decided right then and there that I will let him know that he better not have sex. When he asks me why, I will tell him. "It will probably kill you...you know, because of your asthma." There---problem averted.
I LOVE the logic! So, is it wrong to hope my kid has asthma?
ReplyDeleteI like this logic too, it works on Nathan but not so much on Sarah, she asks WAY too many questions. My luck she will google it and print it out to prove me wrong!
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