Want to invite more people than can fit in your house? Ask your mom while she is trying to help your very frustrated younger brother cut straight lines on a paper.
Want to make sure you can eat pizza (from a national chain), carmel corn and homemade pancakes for breakfast with all your friends? Ask your mom when she is scurrying to find clothes for your baby brother and running at least 20 minutes late for vacation bible school. Filling her thermos with coffee and handing it to her right before you ask is the perfect touch for this request.
Want to spoil your party guests with goodie bags and fun decorations? First make sure mom is busy (blogging is your best bet) and call your dad and ask when he is coming home to take you to Party City (don't worry--dad won't ask).
And for the really big requests like buying concert tickets for you and your friends to the hot concert of the summer? Ask both mom and dad when they busy putting together your new bike or fixing a major portion of the house.
Follow these simple steps and you too can have everything you ever wanted :)
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It is SO good to have these warnings for parents. You are scaring and preparing me...
you should start a MEME with this one! very contagious!
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My guess is, you can't even remember what all you've committed yourself to for the big day :) We would always ask my Mom stuff like that when she was "dozing" off on the couch! That way...we could always say, "we asked!" "You don't remember that?" Tee hee! Sounds like the big day is going to be quite extraordinary! Funny post!
If only I'd known that 20 years ago I could have used it to my advantage!
Now of course I'll be using it to avoid being taken advantage of!
this post must NEVER make it to the eyes of my daughters.
i will block it out of my mind now...
*wink*
great post! :)
Uh-oh. And I thought I had to be on my toes now.
brilliant!!
really you should publish this!!
happy pow :)
now I really don't want my kids to grow up, I'm so not ready for that.
I'm afraid, very afraid.
I love the pitting the parents against one another part. LOVELY!
This is the trouble with smart kids! Too cute.
Wow, they have it all planned out don't they? Sorry you got suckered in (tee hee!) Hope you have fun anyway! : )
Oh, so so true. My four year old is already starting with some of these basic tactics, lol.
Oh my gosh.... you should publish this!!!
Noooooooooo. Not the tween years!!! Okay, well good to be prepared!
Now THAT is truly a POW!!!
You are hilarious!!!
Hmm...I wonder if my boys will use the same how-to guide when they are tweens....
I have 10 years to prepare, thank goodness.
This is really funny and so true. I will link to this post on my blog about raising tweens.
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