It's crazy how wherever we seem to go that Malia is the "sunny master"! There will be other people fishing off the dock and who have probably been there for a time and caught nothing---then we show up and Malia starts reeling them in left & right! Then Morgan and then Marshall start doing the same! It's hillarious!
This last adventure brought a lesson with it! There were probably about a half dozen "tween-age" boys fishing and then jumping off the dock--being what I assume is "normal"--except for the fact that their language was awful. Every other word a swear word and bad ones at that--ones that make my kids' eyes go wide in unbelief that they just heard that.
I was getting pretty angry about their language and I could tell Tim was about to blow a gasket--well, of sorts--it's just sad that poor language has become so normal even in young kids like that--but anyways...they started noticing how Malia was catching all these sunnies and so one of them said to us--"hey, can I take the fish off the hook and throw it back in?" Not sure why, but I said, "Sure you can, on one condition--that you all quit swearing while you're on the dock." It was interesting to see their faces when I said that...they all looked at each other and then almost in unison said, "Ya, I think we can quit swearing while we're up here." So, they got to throw some fish back in the water and we were able to fish in "peace"!! Like I said to the kids...if people are doing things that you don't like or that you think and know to be wrong--it doesn't hurt to ask them to stop--in fact I've found that most times people will respect your wishes and not have a problem with it what you ask!!
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