justaflygirl 0 #1 April 5, 2005 Okay I gotta know... my soon to be 3 yro was born into a skydiving family (my S.O. has been jumping 5 years and I have been jumping 2) He is absolutely ate up with skydiving. He will sit and watch Cutaway or any other skydiving movie/video time after time, prefers it over cartoons any day. He is always jumping off the furniture and off of anything else high saying "skydive skydive" He puts make shifts harnesses on his toys and hangs them belly down and upside constantly cuz they are skydiving! If we dont pu the new parachustist up, we wont get a chance to read it, it dissapears... This child is ate up with it! We havent taken him to a DZ or anything yet, but intend too soon. And we dont really watch videos that much...so it has to be something else???? Is it possible he's bred to skydive, oh that yould be a mom's dream come true! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GogglesnTeeth 6 #2 April 5, 2005 I know of one DZ kid for sure that could probably have taught the first jump course at age 3. He always was running around doing parts of the tandem briefing...... "kick me in the butt" He was always jumping off the arm of the couch and arching till he landed on the cushions. Just like his grandpa! have I mentioned lately how much I miss my old DZ???Goggles and Teeth "You fall like a greased safe!!!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoBob 0 #3 April 5, 2005 Our manifester and vidoegrapher have a great kid (Brina) that hangs out at the DZ. She'e funny, cute as a button and very easy going. She's loves watching people pack but doesn't get in the way, plays with her dolls and gives very good constructive criticism on landings. "I'm not a gynecologist but I will take a look at it" RB #1295, Smokey Sister #1, HellFish #658, Dirty Sanchez #194, Muff Brothers #3834, POPS #9614, Orfun Foster-Parent?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acensky 0 #4 April 5, 2005 My dad used to jump. I had a fort in the backyard about 15 feet off the ground and I would take trash bags and make my own parachute and jump off. I guess it does run in the genes. HeatherGarbage bags do not make good parachutes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slug 1 #5 April 6, 2005 Kid might make more money as a Super Packer! Free pack jobs fom momEarns his own money for college.Son becomes a doctorR.I.P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #6 April 6, 2005 Your kids definitely have the genes for it, chica. My mom had a scrapbook of our school assignments and artwork and stuff. In it I discovered an old homework-type ditto that I did in 1979 -- I was 8 years old. The assignment said at the top: "You have Saturday off to do whatever you want to do or go wherever you want to go. Write about what you will do." I wrote a stream-of-consciousness about going to all sorts of places like Virginia (my g-parents lived there and I had visited); Brooklyn (my dad worked there at the time and I had visited); Niagara Falls (Dad's family lived in Buffalo and I'd visited); The Statue of Liberty (again, I'd been taken there to sightsee)... all of these things, I must have written because I had done them before and liked them... so what made me write "or maybe go skydiving"?? I guess I had seen it and just known... "I wanna do THAT!" When I discovered this ditto after going through AFP and getting my A license, I was kind of awestruck. I had not remembered this innocuous homework assignment, but it found its way back to me after 20-someodd years and I realized that even as a kid with NO connection to skydiving or aviation at all, I wanted to do it! It makes me pleased with myself that I had it in my head all this time. Blue skies, -Jeffrey-Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
