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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 04:47 PM
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My 4YO and 6 YO are fighting in the living room
as I write this.

"Stop it!"
"No you stop it!"
"No you stop it!"
"No you stop it!"
You're a blughablugha!!!
You're a pooper pooper!!!

It's almost as bad as GDP.

K, gotta go...
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 04:59 PM
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1. what are the odds? Can I put $10 on the 4YO?
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:15 PM
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7. Bad bet I'm afraid.
Edited on Tue Jan-08-08 05:15 PM by NoBorders
She's plenty feisty, but her older brother is in like the 90th percentile for size.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:00 PM
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2. And you're sitting here? Go turn the hose on 'em
(more stuff I learned from the Dr. Phil School of Child-Rearing)
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:04 PM
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3. Good luck n/t
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:04 PM
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4. Do you have a bat around?
:evilgrin:
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:16 PM
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8. I'm going with duct tape
My preferred method. :-)
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:16 PM
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18. Duct tape and super-glue
Works every time.
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:32 PM
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24. Do not overlook the latest method of behavior modification: waterboarding!
:thumbsup:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:04 PM
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5. Your children make more sense than all of the Democratic candidates combined.
I shall vote for them in the primary.
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:22 PM
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12. I, or they, appreciate your vote.
Edited on Tue Jan-08-08 05:22 PM by NoBorders
Now we shall rule the world!!! Mwahahahahaha
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:06 PM
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6. "You can't fight in here. This is the war room!"
Sorry...just saw that film again the other night. Classic.
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:19 PM
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9. Great flick. Great line.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:20 PM
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11. Think about that movie...it will help you survive the real battle going
on in your house! Been there, done that!
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:24 PM
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13. I should probably go rent it.
It's been awhile.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:19 PM
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10. If you live in New Hampshire, it's not your children.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:32 PM
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14. I've got a 4 year old and a 6 year old, also!
I feel your pain!

Ours usually go like this:

Daniel: "You're a poopy head!"
Leah: "No I'm not -- you're a poopy head!"
Leah: "Daddy -- Daniel just stuck his tongue out at me!"
Daniel: "It was an accident!"
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:40 PM
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15. Yeah, the old 'it was an accident' ploy
Wait, isn't that what * said about Iraq?
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:12 PM
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17. That's my son's favorite excuse. His hand just happened to slip
and hit his sister on the arm...

The funny thing is, my son is the four year old!!
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:20 PM
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20. I call that tense the Third Person Nonculpitory
"It broke"
"The syrup spilled"
"My homework got lost"
"The cat got shaved"

Odd how there's never anyone around when it happens....
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cabraverde Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:51 PM
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16. film it and post on youtube.
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:18 PM
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19. Let 'em have it out
Unless, of course, they may physically injure
one another. Let kids be kids.

:)
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:23 PM
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21. Yeah. Let 'em learn young
Lest one day they may choose to post in GD-P.

Aren't you grateful you're not a Mod?
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:27 PM
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23. You got THAT right
:banghead:
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:50 PM
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25. Except that I'm trying to watch CNN too
and I can't hear. :-)
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:23 PM
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22. The best parenting advice I ever got...
Tell them they have to sort it out themselves.
I only intervene if it looks like it might get bloody.
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NoBorders Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:52 PM
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26. It's an interesting thought.
I might try out something like that. If mom and dad are always intervening, they come to expect to be bailed out,don't they?
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