Things you shouldn’t have to yell at your kids – in the form of motivational quotes

I have made an effort not to blog mortifying things about my kids…so far.

To celebrate going back to school after Labour Day here are six things I have found myself yelling at my kids over the years (usually over a shoulder while sweating with triple knotted shoelaces and trying to find pizza money or a retro cheque book1 for the last place on earth that demands one.) Out of context it is immediately obvious the kids are going to be serial killers and I should be sectioned myself.

  1. Sage advice whilst on a farm

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2. Remember we are trying to build self-esteem

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3. Ummm, yeah, I’ll just get all the ‘sister ones’ out of the way

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4. Basic truths for life part one

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5. And part two

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6. You try and foster creativity with glitter and glue … but then.

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7.  But the tell-tale heart goes both ways

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Cheques are horrible circling money vultures that wait for the time when you have no money in your account and then they swoop down out of the blue to inflict the maximum amount of damage bouncing all over the place and costing everyone in a five-mile radius 40 dollars in bank charges.

Five bad things that happen to parents in the digital age

Perhaps, as parents, me and Him Indoors have just been unlucky as we stumble from one upturned internet e-rake to another, but I maintain everyone who opted to procreate around the millennium and and allows their kids a modicum of freedom will have tripped on occasion.

It’s because we are riding into the dawn of a new era. No one has gone before us. How were we supposed to know? Every age has it’s idiots. We are the digital equivalent of the parents that left the walker with the wheels on the top landing of the stairs, or gave the tween lawn darts or had a liquor cabinet and teenagers and a weekend away with “Auntie Joonie” in charge.

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