including soliciting help from their exasperated parents. When this ism ends with a word like prestidigitation, parents should insists the child look the word up in the dictionary.
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But when a child asks “How do you spell the?” it could be time for a remedial spelling lesson.
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But I can’t look it up if I don’t know how to spell it!” This “gotcha” response to a parent’s urging to “look it up in the dictionary” is impossible to argue with. Don’t even try.
Why can’t I? It’s a free country You gotta love the democracy argument, especially when it comes from an underage, dependent, unemployed child whose very survival and livelihood depends entirely on his overage, overtaxed parents.
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It was an accident! What kid in his right mind is going
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to admit he broke a vase, window or his brother’s nose on purpose?
Can I come out now? Sending a child to his room will afford you, on average, 6.3 minutes of precious silence. Then, don’t be surprised to hear this ism in the sweetest, most syrupy voice you’ve ever heard.
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Shut Up! No mother worth her salt would allow her child to say “Shut Up!” Mom reserves that privilege for herself, to use on Dad. That’s not what you said last week. Leave it to a kid who can’t remember her own lunch to be able to regurgitate verbatim what a parent said in a weak moment on week ago. This tack is 99% effective since the typical mom will be unable to remember what she said this morning, let along a whole week ago.
Everybody else’s mom is letting them. Wouldn’t it be fun to throw a weekly Everybody Else’s Mom Convention? Then you could find out, once and for all, what kind of nonsense everybody else’s kids are feeding these poor women.
No surgary purees.
No sweetened fruits.
Right after this show... Here’s another example of children measuring time in TV show increments. When your little procrastinator gives you this put-off, just make sure he’s not watching a two-week miniseries before you relent.
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You’re the best mom in the whole world! Beware the child who starts a conversation with the above phrase, especially if he is hugging and kissing you while he’s saying it. He want’s something. And it’s going to be big. 4/B
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