I think I need a stiff drink.
 

This must be the modern version of happening upon your kids' diary.


All I was doing was trying to find some interestng things about where we live to show to people.

That's Keoni, my son.

I had to watch the tape and deny it a few times, and freeze the frame of his face and blink and stare at it awhile, before I began screaming and shaking and freaking out.

That's what teenage boys do, stupid dangerous stuff. He could be out shootin' up heroin, or knockin' up mademoiselles.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing.........boys will be boys. My brother and his friend were always doing crazy things like that. I figured it was all that testosterone bubbling around. Oh, and my brother...............he is still alive, he's 48 and he still jumps from high places into water.......go figure......I can't watch when he does things like that because it makes my legs feel like noodles and I get butterflies in my gut.

I was okay with it till he jumped.

Keoni is an interesting name. Is it pronounce the way it is spelled (in English, lol) Kee-oh-nee?

I guess you would have to be a boy to understand that exitement. We used to jump off a short 30-40 ft cliff into a quarry pond. Nothing compared to the cliff divers in Hawaii. :)

Holy Carp!
I bet you 'bout died! Have you told him you have seen it yet? Are you planning on chaining him in the basement? Are you going to take out a life insurance policy?..I would! Might as well make a little cash to ease the suffering...
I wish I could be there when you tell him you saw it..I bet he thought there was no way you would ever know!! Too funny. Busted!
It must be a guy thing... it in no way looks like a good time to me... more like something I would have to do at gunpoint!

Takes me back about 15 years or so! Our son used to skip school in So. Carolina, and go diving in a rock quarry with some other boys! This was a kid who would never ride anything more scary than a merry go round! Jan in Co

Nice looking son you have susie.

Angie

Well, at least he jumped and didn't dive.

He's doing pretty well considering that he's growing up in a house with a neutered donkey.

Susie,

Very handsome young man - and in good shape too!

What he's doing is more a guy thing than anything else - why do guys like to "trade punches" and most girls never even consider it?

The river must be deep - so I'm assuming that the likelihood of injury exists more in the climbing. He's not doing anything that mountain climbers haven't done before him, but oh! I do understand.

My son (at age 13) actually called me out to show me what he was doing for fun years ago. He tied a rope around the top of a slender tree, then tied the rope around his waist, climbed up and jumped off! And the tree bent under his weight, so that when he hit the end of the rope's length, the tree gently lowered him to the ground.

Um... yeah.... and then came the lecture, LOL! And he was at home, on our property, no friends... they just don't need help to think these things up!

He's now 26, training to be a paramedic - LOL!!

I learned
 

not to listen too closely to my kids when they play "remember when." I find out a lot of things they did that I had no idea they were doing. Like jumping out the second story window on to the trampoline. Or from the roof to the trampoline - 2nd story. Luckily, we kept them close to home. The only one we have at home now is going to be the hardest to keep alive - he absolutely has NO sense when it comes to personal danger and he is a long way from the teenage stage still.

It looked like your son made it up that tower in great time and good form.

As a father I watched the video as boys will be boys type of thing.

In your shoes, I would being up in casual conversation, "how did you know the depth of the water you jumped into?" Say this with a calm voice.

That will let him know you know. It will also tell him you are there to discuss it, not simply yell about it.

For the record, I have survived stunts like that as a boy, and I know my boys have lived after doing fooling things as well.

A very scary thing :eek:

But, on a lighter note--I like the background song (and yeah, I knowwho it is too LOL!)

Atleast he wore his shoes. I think you should talk to him about how to do this sort of thing correctly. It did not seem that he climbed very high, but the question is had the water been checked out for depth and debris that they would get impaled on.

The reason I take this stance is kids will be kids but you need to tlak to them about how to do it safely not how to not be kids. Either way they are going to be kids.

Howdy Y'all
WWO

relax...

Funny how much harder it is to see your kids do something like that than it was to do those kinds of things yourself. At least for me, and mine are to little to do that yet :)

Looks like fun! I've done hundreds if not thousands of similar things. I expect my 3yr old son to be starting any day now! :)

My boy is 5yrs old and has all ready done some things I did as a young boy and I expect more to come. Doesn't make it easier having been there and lived through it, but the price for some things I did, has been life long pain. :flame:

So I will channel his creative distructiveness, and put him to work. Idle hands and such..

Most likely your son knew the depth from watching others doing the same thing. I did similar but with a bicycle. :dance:

yeh taht would be my concern, looks like he's jumping off a train trestle, kids back home used to do the same...only thing is there was an old boxcar under the water and if you landed in the wrong spot you'd be in for a big hurt

My 17 year old cousin fell to his death while playing on a parking garage. He was jumping on the skylight. It broke. He fell 110 feet and landed on his feet. Nonetheless, he died instantly.

Not to be a party pooper, but sometimes kids don't survive the stupid things they do.

Jena

He would make a good ironworker considering he's not afraid of heights. Ironworking does pay good but the danger quota is incredibly high.

As long as the water is deep enough, I don't see a problem (except the fair of bellyflopping lol)


as said before, boys will be boys!
signed, a 19 year old boy :)

I'm just so glad video cameras weren't commonplace when I was his age.

You got that right...

Meh, I didn't see flammable liquids, guns, or fast moving objects so all is well.


And... he was doing it with a friend filming so someone was able to go in after him if something happened. I was with a friend doing pretty much the same thing and he was so excited about jumping off the cliff he forgot about the old tree sticking out of the water and impaled himself. I went in after him and after 20-30 stitches or so all was better.

Boys will be boys.

If you want to feel better about what you son did I can PM you some of the stuff I did as a kid and you will think jumping into the water is pretty tame... it really is a wonder I am still alive. Testostarone is another way of saying self destruction! :hobbyhors

Was this your son in the red shorts?

I cannot see it since we are on dial up but I can imagine! Our son and friends, when he was 14, made a video for a Spanish class and when they showed it to us, my son rode his bike off a stone sea wall and into the salt water lake (oysters and all), he got cut up but laughed all the way to the house. I was so mad! They did get a good grade on the video though.

AWESOME!

That was way cool!

Well, susie,
All I can say is, not long ago - my 21 year old son began telling me a tale of him and his buddy (back when they were 17) riding around in his little honda 4 speed, with him in the trunk, throwing out firecrackers, shooting out roman candles, bottle rockets etc and getting into a problem with some crack-heads that chased these two stupid children all over the county.
the bad part was when he told me about them hitting a bump and the trunk closing on him while he had a lit roman candle in his hand.
His buddy popped the trunk lever just in time. :rolleyes:
All I could tell him was, You better thank God that I did not find out sooner!
When he was telling me it was sorta funny.
Now, if I can get the other 3 boys raised without a huge accident, we will be doing good.
So, take a deep breath, long calm talk and then a stiff drink. :)

I used to do crazy stuff like that all the time, glad I lived through that phase! I had 3 brothers and I guess it was either keep up or get lost.

all while jumping off a bridge at the same time.

that would take talent.

lol

I'm not a boy, but I've done my fair share of bridge jumping when I was younger :)

I think I might enjoy a jump like that even today.

Climbing the bridge would be the hard part.

We watch a TV show that shows funny home videos. I've pointed out that whenever there is a video of young people doing some stupid stunt it is always males!

I though that was why chicks dig us.

I lucked out... either my son didn't do that stuff... OR (and more likley) I just haven't found out yet. :) Either way, I'm sure that nothing he might have done has topped the stunts I used to pull as a kid! All part of growing up.

Kaza

He sounds like my youngest. Now, bear in mind that this is the son with asthma and a heart condition, ok? 2 summers ago he went out skateboarding with a bunch of his friends. They went swimming in the river afterward, so I was not all the concerned about him coming home wet. I guess I should have been. This reasonably intelligent and responsible young man decided to grind his skateboard along the rail on the side of the bridge!!! To his credit, he made it about 3/4 of the way across before he lost his board in the water. I can't understand how he didn't fall in with it, or get hit by a car on the road side of the bridge!!! (He went in swimming to find the board, but the water was too deep to see it.)

I hope your not talking about the bridge over the river on 171. :eek:

looks deeper than what my gang used to jump into on the Black River north of Poplar Bluff

Many teenagers think they'll live forever. Some learn they won't even live to get old. A bad jump from that height could easily be fatal. :nono:
Right now, the new from Missouri is about 4 teenagers that died in a car wreck the other night. They were going way too fast and lost control, going off the road and hitting a tree. Tore the car in half.

I don't know much about donkeys but this crack had me ROFLMAO!!


Your son does STUPID well!