Comments to Alice in Suburbia:

Vicki - 2004-12-14 00:34:57
Those are great...and rules which we, in our infinite wisdom and experience as mothers, see as being so obvious, we forget the young (and not so young) 'uns don't quite....well, see things as clearly. It also reminds me of a rule I had to make up once....I witnessed a disaster about to happen and, without thinking, shouted at my four year old "NO THROWING RIPE PLUMS!!!"
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Miss Poola - 2004-12-14 00:42:04
Once again, you make me laugh so hard I hurt myself!
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nancy - 2004-12-14 05:45:33
oooooo the last one is the best!!
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purple chai - 2004-12-14 06:45:34
So true, and so familiar. My mother also prohibited us from leaving the house or going to sleep with the dryer on -- what if there's a fire? And I once heard myself saying to small children "Don't put bananas in your ears!"
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Christopias Spritopher - 2004-12-14 06:52:38
Nothing smaller than your elbow should go in your ear is a favorite rule of mine
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Tara - 2004-12-14 07:14:31
Great entry, you had me laughing hysterically.
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cosmicrayola - 2004-12-14 07:56:29
My favorite of my mom's is when we would come crying from skinning our knee or a splinter in our finger etc. she would say "It's too far from your heart to kill you." Oh and on the rules side I can remember her screaming "Don't put the dirty knives in the sink full of water!!"
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Yvonne - 2004-12-14 08:51:53
I'm copying these and posting them on the fridge! Of course, then I will have to point it out, make them read it, and point it out again when they did something on the handy rule list. I love when the boys do something silly, reap the consequences and look at me all startled, like I should have warned them not to ...!
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Paula - 2004-12-14 10:42:27
I've never heard the one about sticking a hot pan in water...what's supposed to happen. Also your list sort of reminded me of the Christmas Story where Ralphie is continually reminded that if he gets a BB gun, you'll "shoot yer eye out!"
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Mary - 2004-12-15 21:45:07
This totally cracked me up- especially the dramatic consequences to breaking the rules.. Your kids have probably never done many of these things because they were never forbidden to! I remember worrying about my arm getting chopped off by the washing machine... Not quite a common fear for me anymore. :-)
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