August 28th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

So I have all these sto­ries that I tell all the time, and it occurs to me that I’ve never blogged them. So here’s the first of what might end up being a series.

A while back I was car­ry­ing Jared into his bed­room to put him to bed. He was sort of sit­ting on my hips facing me and rock­ing back and forth. Right as we went through the door he leaned way over to his right and smacked the back of his head on the door frame. I pulled him upright and set him down on the bed saying, “Oh Jared! I’m sorry I whacked your head!”

“You whacked me?” he asked.

“Yes, Jared, but it was an accident.”

“Okay, I whack you.” With that, he hauled off and slugged me in the neck with a right round­house that knocked me from a kneel­ing posi­tion all the way to flat on the floor. Hon­estly, my head was spin­ning, and I real­ized that we REALLY had to spend some time talk­ing to Jared about what an acci­dent is, and that while a lot of people say that mar­tial arts are good for kids with autism, Jared doesn’t need any help learn­ing how to throw a punch.

And from now on, if Jared hits his head, I’ll tell him, “YOU whacked your head!”

2 Responses to “Untold Tales”

1. So when does he start his train­ing for the UFC? Sounds like a cham­pion heavy­weight to me.

   — skank August 29th, 2007 at 7:36 am #

2. See, that’s a great thought - the ques­tion is, how do you spank a giant baby? With a really big ladder, I don’t know, maybe?

   And when that giant baby has a good right cross and knows how to throw a flying armbar on you, that ques­tion gets REALLY hard to answer.

   — Jemaleddin August 29th, 2007 at 8:20 am #