I am starting a new feature here on the Small Wonder blog. Its an idea that my husband and I came up with several years ago. Once you have children, you find yourself saying things you never, ever imagined you would say.
Some of these things are the exact things your parents used to say to you, and you thought they were crazy, but now you understand.
"You are not going outside without a hat, young lady!"
Other things are sentences that absolutely need to be said at the moment, but you could not have predicted the use of that particular combination of facts.
"Please take your foot out of your brother's hat before you hurt his hand."
These strange and wonderful utterances need to be documented, and this is the place to do it. I will post a few of my favourites each week, and you can add your own in the comments.
"There is no crying while playing video games."
"Nope. We don't have any more batteries for that noisy toy. Sorry."
"I am going to throw all of this stuff away, because you don't take care of it and you never clean it up."
This is just the start. Add your own, and I will eavesdrop on families in the grocery store and try to come up with some better ones next week.
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When the dogs star whining, I always quote the movie 'A League of Their Own' and say:
"There is no crying in baseball!"
I have a feeling I'll say this to our son as well, because it's funny ;-P
Oh, I'm sure I've already said some 'interesting' things to Jak. Can't remember anything crazy off the top of my head...although I do tell him to "Zip it" quite often. And no, that's not an intentional quote from Austin Powers, FYI. :)
Some of our favourites are:
"This is not your personal playground"
"Let us be the parents"
"If you don't get down/off of that you're going to crack your head open!"
"We came here to have fun"
For some reason I have said "No biting each other's bums" more than once today.
From a teahcer, but one parents can relate to...one rule in my daughter's grade six calssroom is "No gym shorts on your head."
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