Friday – Hi, I'm Eddie Haskell's Mom

[ninanevermore]

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"He's at your dad's right now," Jeff told me. He has to work this evening, so my father and his wife are watching my son right now and I will pick him up after work from their house. They are also helping out next week, until I can hire new childcare.

"How was he today?" I asked.

"How the hell do you think he was?"

"A perfect angel, huh?"

"Of course. He's always a perfect angel with us. Our son is Eddie Haskell."

"Who?"

"Eddie Haskell. You know, from Leave it to Beaver."

"I never watched Leave it to Beaver growing up." It was in syndication when I was small but my mom limited me to an hour of television after school, and I used that up on shows that were in color.

"Eddie Haskell was always perfectly nice in front of all the adults, but as soon as their back was turned he caused all kinds of trouble. That's what our son does. He's Eddie Haskell. Ask someone older than you around the office. They'll know what I'm talking about."

I guess this means that when people ask me what my little boy is like, I can tell them he's like a character on that wholesome slice of Americana, Leave it to Beaver. Hopefully, they'll think I'm talking about Wally of Beave. Let them find out on their own that he's Eddie, but with teeth.


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Comments

[magsmom.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling very old that you did not immediately get the Eddie Haskel reference. We used it all the time on our kids' friends. My oldest's son's name is Eddie (still and he'll be 21 next week) so we used it on him constantly. Everybody has a little Eddie Haskell in them.

Eddie H.(to parent): Hi Mrs. Cleaver, that's a particularly lovely apron you're wearing today.
Eddie to the Beav (when parent not around): Get lost squirt.

I'll bet your bundle o'joy was just very unhappy and will now be the Sweet Eddie far more often.

[martina-d.livejournal.com]

It was too good an opportunity to pass up, using my favorite icon. :) Thank goodness for family members being close by!

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

E doesn't bite his cousins. They've always played very well together. SOMETHING just wasn't right, there, and I'm betting he'll be back to wonderful in a new environment. E's a great kid!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

The biting thing has come and gone, and recently started up again with a vengeance. He did bite Rorie when he was a year and a half old, as I recall. Held her arm like an ear of corn and sunk his teeth right into it while they were both in the back seat of my car.

Recently he simply hasn't been around your kids enough during one of his biting phases. He bit one of my stepsister's kids at Christmas. This behavior has been growing in the last 6 months and has peaking in recent weeks. I have no idea why.

When he's good, he's very good. I agree that he's great kid, but he has a very nasty habit I've got to figure out how to break him of. A change of environment might help, but I can't let myself cling to that hope too much.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Everyone else seems to know all about Eddie Haskell, so don't feel too old. I was simply not allowed to watch much television as a kid, which has put me at a disadvantage when it comes to classic TV pop culture.

My mother didn't watch TV much at all, so I only watched it with my dad, and then we only watched his favorite shows during the 70's when I was growing up. Family shows were not my dad's thing, "manly" shows were. As a result, while my friends know all about Happy Days and Lavern and Shirley, I was the only little girl in school who could tell you everything you could ever want to know about M*A*S*H and The Rockford Files. We also watch the movie Patton with George C. Scott every single year when it got aired (and once upon a time that was an annual event on the networks).

It's a wonder I turned out feminine at all.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Otherwise, I would be faking a case of the flu right now so I could use up my sick time. *cough, cough*

[simplecity2htwn.livejournal.com]

"Who?"

I swear, when I read that I heard the sound of a needle skipping across a record. I didn't know of a single American in my general age group who hadn't been forced (on way or another) to watch hour after hour of those awful re-runs.

Your mother gets a posthumous award from me for her stance on television. I've sworn that if we ever have kids, the TV is going out in the trash.

[magsmom.livejournal.com]

funny you should use Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. A very good friend of mine is the daughter of the guy that created those shows.

Mash and Rockford files rocked too.

and Patton - please, that was deRiguer. When you stick you hands in a bunch of goo....

[magsmom.livejournal.com]

I should have used this icon - Kravitz from Bewitched.

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

LOL Well, it could be worse...he could be a hellion everywhere?

*HUGS*

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, my life would be easier if he were good at daycare and rotten at home! Not much fun, but easier. :P

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

My kids are that way...they save their worst for us. But I have to agree. I prefer it that way. Well, okay I'd prefer them to be angels everywhere, but I'd rather them look good to others?