I’ll be an Uncle’s Monkey
on September 8, 2017
at 12:00 am
Side note: Looked up what nieces and nephews are collectively called. Get this: “niblings.” It sounds like the word for children you snack on.
Bug Martini
Random nonsense three days a week
don’t forget farting. we do that a lot too
You need to get that taught? I thought everyone knows how to do that from day one?
You need to be taught how to modulate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane
It seems that is a talent I completely miss.
Nah, their dad was right there encouraging such antics which for some odd reason did the exact opposite.
Making fart noises with the armpit is an older’s brother’s area of expertise. And I’ve tried to teach myself how to sneeze the word “horses**t,” as I heard someone could do, but so far no success.
Pretty sure my office mate is teaching his niece algebra by video chat.
Ironically, one of my uncles is a math teacher and actually did help me out with some trickier bits in high school.
I would be the sibling expected to teach everyone else’s kids stuff. Unfortunately, the first four aren’t particularly teachable. High hopes for #5 on the way given their vastly superior parental quality.
I tried to help with their math homework but got it all wrong it seems.
Schools don’t care about the right answer but doing it the “correct” way.
So method over substance. That just dropped my respect for teachers and educators in general, a few notches, then I spoke with a few of them and was appalled at their total lack of basic math and science knowledge or skills.
Note to file: why yes I am a professional geek. A have alphabet soup after my name on business cards and everything.
I use “niecphews” for the collective term. It appears that there is no collective term for aunts and uncles though.
How about Uncunts?
I live far enough away from my sister to be an inconvenient babysitter. Also, none of my uncles ever taught me to burp correctly, so that is a skill I am unable to pass on to my Niece Bug 🙁 (My sister is very happy about that…)