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| Not a proud parenting moment; but I bribed my 7-year-old with Pop Tart | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM (119 Views) | |
| RosemaryTwo | Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I work from home. I am crazy busy today. My two sons are home with me, and they were wasting time, rolling around on the family room floor. I said if the younger one would read to the older one, I'd give them both a Pop Tart (Kirkland brand from Coctco -- organic -- no expiration date -- would work well on the moon). It worked. Sad, but it worked. They're in there reading, to get a lousy tart.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jul 21 2008, 11:59 AM Post #2 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Sometimes you just gotta do what works. Parenting is alot like being a Mafia Don. |
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| Red Rice | Jul 21 2008, 12:02 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I've done much worse for a lousy tart.
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jul 21 2008, 12:03 PM Post #4 |
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:lol: |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jul 21 2008, 12:03 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yeah, as a new parent I never would have approved of these methods (reading is good for its own sake, no reward should be offered, blah blah blah). |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jul 21 2008, 12:05 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: I bought a big box of tarts, so I should be able to squeeze a few books out of the man yet. This is what happens when you don't let them watch TV.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Frank_W | Jul 21 2008, 12:06 PM Post #7 |
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I've done worse things for more paltry rewards...
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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