Right from the minute our children are old enough to understand we start teaching them the rules of life. Always say please and thank you. Never eat with your mouth open. Always share your toys. And we spend the next five or six years reinforcing these rules so that when they are ready to start school they will be ready for the "real" world.
They come home from school telling you tales of how the other kids just yank the toys from their hands and never share, they are the only one who says please or thank you and their new friends are invited over for dinner and you wonder if their parents either have the table manners of barnyard pigs or this kid just doesn't listen because he/she eats worse than you have ever seen a child eat before. You start to wonder if you had been wasting your breath and their time over the past few years teaching them these rules of the "real" world.
Then one day you wake up and your stomach is in knots, you can't keep anything down and you feel like you were run over by a truck. You tell your child "thanks for the flu, honey" and they respond with a "well you always taught me to share." And they are so right.
My children have been so kind that they have shared two flus with me in the past three weeks...I hope their kindness ends soon.
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LOL....well, as we tell our Girl Scouts, caring is sharing but make sure to wash your hands first! Hope you feel better!
Awww, you poor thing!
Thank you for taking the time to teach your children good manners and morals. Sadly, not everyone is that into teaching their kids those sorts of things, it would be a much better world if everyone took the time!
It's not funny that you have the flu but I love the humor in your blog. I hope you feel better soon!
oh I hope you are feeling better! (((hugs)))
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