We all have them and use them.
“Don’t cross the street until you’ve looked both ways.”
“If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.”
“Don’t mix business with family.”
…and so on. Well, I’ve come up with a few customized rules of thumb as a parent working with my husband in raising our two children. Thus below is an ever-growing list of our “rules of thumb” when it comes to our kids. Enjoy, use, judge, live on. Oh, and some might digress into non-parenting areas, but they come up as I see them.
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“When one has two or more children in your care, it is well advised to clothe oneself in something other than a V-neck down to the navel.”
“Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Teach a boy to pee on a tree… and he’ll pee on every tree in sight.”
“If the restaurant in question uses more than one fork in the place setting, do not bring the kids along.”
“If your child wants to try something that might require more than one country to get involved in search & rescue efforts should things go awry, it’s a good idea to have them wait until they are a legal adult.”
“Your toddler’s actual speed to get themselves into trouble is 3x what your best guess is. Thus the amount of time you think you can look away from them or leave them unsupervised should be reduced by a factor of 3.”
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