clandestinidad Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 If ya'll were dating someone who's 24, has a job, lives in another state where they went to college, and found out that their mother sends them "care packages", sometimes including things like PEZ, other candies, Children's liquid medicine, household trinkets, etc what would you think?!?!
Teag Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I think it would be sweet. Hey thoses are things you wouldn't have to buy & a nice treat. Although the childrens medicine would be weird if the person was in college.
bicyclejunk Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 [color=darkred]Well, My mom send me stuff like that sometimes. I'm completely independent, got a fiance, got an apartment, good job, yet momma still sends me stuff like that. In my case, Mom just wants to still feel needed and likes to do it. I tell her not to send the stuff, but she likes to. She likes to feel like she's still looking out for her baby, i guess. But i don't accept money or things like that. I'm a grown up. Children's Liquid Medicine is a bit weird, but I guess.[/color]
Sukotto Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 It gives his mum something to do, you should probably be jealous
tiki Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Yeah I don't u/s the childrens medicine? But I think I'd send special care packages to my son if he went away.
Lonestar Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 My 20 year old hates to swallow pills so he uses kid's Tylenol chewables and my mother still buys them for him.
Pocky Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I'm in my thirties and I use children's medicine! I hate swallowing pills and the liquid responds quicker anyway. And my mother sends me care packages and I love it. My husband receives weekly letters from his parents with the comics cut out of their local newspaper. It's sweet - I'd think the person had a good relationship with their parents and that'd be a plus.
Author clandestinidad Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 LOL...yeah...I know its sweet and loving and blahblablah...... its just the damn Children's medicine that throws me for a loop!!! haha He's 24, out of college...and lives literally 1 minute from a Wal-Greens. I find it very odd that mommy would send him that when he's quite capable of getting it himself. Do many adults take Children's Medicine?!?! But tell me more of what YOU all think!!!!
blind_otter Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I think it's sweet. I'm 25 and I want care packages. I think there's company that will send them for you. I get children's liquid tylenol on the regular. It tastes better, and I can regulate the dose easier.
imjustagirl Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I wish someone would send me a care package! Doesn't matter what time a year, I'd be greatful...
EC Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I drink Childrens Meds all the time. I hate pills too and they taste like grape hello??? lol I think its sweet his mother sends him packages with those things its sweet and shows they do have a good relationship.... PEZ they still make those things lol ??????
Author clandestinidad Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 I didnt mean to sound like I was saying that the care packages themselves were bothersome! I guess I just thought that someone's mom sending him children's liquid medicine was a little immature.....maybe I thought that b/c its just another thing added to his "immaturity" list....he has quite a few lately. My eyes have definately been opened...I had no idea that numerous adults take kids med's. But really??? No one else thinks its a 'little' immature for his mom to send it???
RowanRavyn Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 When I have a really bad headache, I steal my childrens motrin. It really DOES work faster. ::Covers her monitor and hides her Santa Pez despinser::: Umm yeah the other stuff is weird. ::Looks around suspiciously::
HokeyReligions Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 *snort*laugh* Um, I take some kids meds and I have a Pez collection (among other collections) I love PEZ! If my mom were able, she would send me care packages and I would have done that for my kids too. Actually, my mom did send me stuff up until she could not longer work and I was in my, uh, well---a lot older than your bf! Some things in my mom's care packages included Kraft Mac & Cheese (I'm STILL addicted to that stuff and don't get it very often!); mini-marshmallow's for my hot chocolate because mom knows I ALWAYS forget to buy them!; Vics Vapo Rub; and similar goofy items! I think its sweet that his mom does that and that he lets her do that!
hugznkisses21 Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Im telling ya...i no longer have a mother and if she was still around I would love for her to send that stuff.........when my parents were divorced my mom still sent care packages when my dad was sick and she took us kids so he could get rest. Its a mother thing.......4 or 24 mothers love their children i think she sounds like a thoughful and caring person...and maybe he just doesnt have the heart to tell her he doesnt need the kids tylenol anymore....its sweet i wouldnt read very far into it
savethedrama4allama Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Care packages from mom are better than calls from mom in jail. Know what I'm saying? I wouldn't worry about it too much. Tell his mom to put me on her mailing list
Author clandestinidad Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 hahaha....thanks guys.... I just wanted to make it clear that it doesnt bother me that she sends him stuff....it was really just the kids medicine. I thought it was immature. But now I know that apparently lots of adults take childrens medicine, so I guess its not THAT weird!!
quankanne Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I know lots of adults who take baby aspirin on advice of their physican to help prevent heart attacks, they're just the right dosage. AND tasty, too! my mother would deliver her care packages when I was in college, and she'd put enough in there for my roommate. He *still* talks about that!!!! moms rock!
rglove Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 First off, I would discount the care package, because mother are quirky like that. Ever brought someone to the house you were involved with and had them pull out old baby picture, your old baby booty, and a whole lot of other embarrassing stuff from your childhood, even though your no longer a child. Parents (Mothers especially) baby and smother you like that. Oh, my baby. It seems sometimes they don't want to let go of that baby, so discount the care package and look at him. Does he function well as an adult and in the adult world? The fact is mothers will do things like that especially if you are their baby, whose yet, there only baby, - only child. This plays out all the time on tv sitcoms, but that is not as much as a reflection on him as on his mother. Maybe be he just appeases her, by letting her still see him as her baby and do the mother smother thing, while he lives and make his adult life. Take a look at him how he acts and what he does, and advise him that he needs to get his mother to realize he's an adult and to spot treating him like a baby. And if you step back and you see, realize, he is a baby, an adult in need of mothering, you do what you have to do, but then again, I say, look at him and not the care package!!!
SoleMate Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Ummmmm, those chewable orange baby aspirins! I loved those things! They were so tart and tiny and fruity/bitter. I hid under the dining room table (in plain sight) when I was 5 and chewed a whole bottle of them! My mom caught me and took me to the ER and they pumped my stomach. Actually, I think that happened twice. Then Mom started hiding them better. Sweet memories.
Author clandestinidad Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Thanks....you've made a good point rglove....He really is immature in a number of ways. Its very irritating to me. He seems to know nothing about people (females especially), nothing about relationships, cant make decisions on his own without sucking in what everyone else tells him to do.....etc etc. About the sending kids medicine thing, I guess it just illustrated his immaturity in another way in my mind. He really saw nothing strange about his mom sending him his medicine. This combined w/ other things really rubbed me the wrong way. Another thing is that apparently whenever he's home she lays out what vitamins/supplements that she thinks he should take that day. He doesnt think this is strange either, and takes them without a word just like a good little boy. How come they never got to a point where she told him what she thought he should take, and left it up to him to get it out and take it himself!? And why didnt the normal "rebellion/independence" that guys normally go through happen??? I mean, it seems like there was never any "I'm stating my independence, and not taking these" or something along those lines. There's other things like this too....in other aspects of life. I guess my issue is that I'm very independent, can get my own medicines, do lots of other things for myself, and I get VERY irritated when people try to tell me what I should do. I prefer doing things myself, and IF i need any help I will ASK for it...otherwise, leave me alone
UCFKevin Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 What do you mean the rebellion/independence thing that guys normally go thru? Who says guys normally go thru that? Actually, it's girls who usually go thru that, the guys generally tend to have the independence, in my experience and others I know, anyway. I never went thru it, I never felt like I needed to. But as for the kid's medicine, I dunno, maybe it's a thing between them two.
Author clandestinidad Posted December 23, 2004 Author Posted December 23, 2004 What do you mean the rebellion/independence thing that guys normally go thru? By that I meant telling her something like, "alright mom...you can stop laying out my vitamins for the day, I'm capable of doing it myself".....or even, "let me do things myself"....or "stop doing ____" Even if she didnt stop, or it took a few times of saying it to get her to stop, it would be different in my mind. He would be "growing up/trying to be more independent" and telling her to stop babying him. All of the guys I know have said something (usually in middle or high school, and especially in college) or rolled their eyes....SOMEthing...when their moms have babied them. He actually doesnt get bothered or think its strange that he's 24 and she lays out his vitamins, among other things. But like I said, he's immature about a number of other things as well. I guess I just dont understand how that WOULDNT bother someone....to be told by your mother when youre 24 what to do, and how to do it, and when to do it...and to be checked up on to make sure that it was done....and just go along w/ it like a little puppy. (the interesting thing about this is that he has issues w/ feeling like other people want to control him and make him follow like a little puppy (he's used those words)...and doesnt even realize that his mom does it)
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