Possumblog Rules for International Diplomacy and Child Rearing

For the solving of all geopolitical conflicts, and for getting the trash can taken to the street. Please feel free to insert the names of any squabbling national entities or children of your choice.

1. Keep your hands to yourself.

2. Don't say anything if you can't say something nice.

3. Eat it because I said to.

4. Don't make me come up there.

5. Quit picking your nose.

6. NO means NO.

7. I don't care who's doing it, you're not going to. If everyone was jumping off a bridge, would you do that, too?

8. Okay, let me help you pack. Take whatever you want, as long as it's not something that someone else bought for you. Hmm. Not going to get very far with a pack of Twizzlers and a pair of clear plastic sandals from the dollar store, now are you?

9. I said be quiet, and I meant it.

10. I'm not going to do your homework for you.

11. Hey, tell you what...when you have kids and a mortgage, THEN you can pick the radio station.

12. I really don't CARE what their parents let them do.

13. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't care what you did.

14. You're only hurting yourself.

15. Alrighty then, we're turning around RIGHT now and going home.

16. Fine; go ahead and make your mama cry.
posted by Terry at 10:48:00 AM