Adi had a birthday party in school. The party started with the teacher going around the room and various girls expressing their good wishes. Things like:
"I bless you to be happy and have everyone like you."
"I bless you to do lots of mitzvot and be smart and be a teacher."
"I bless you to eat lots of yellow cheese."
One girl's blessing was "that you marry a good guy." Which was pretty funny, because this was a seventh birthday.
The teacher (quietly) joked, "Yes, it's important to start praying for a good husband when you're seven," to which a student who overheard replied, "Nuh-uh! Not until you're eight!!"
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I love that the first question in the Home Front Command pamphlet about earthquake preparedness is, "How do you know an earthquake is happening?"
Just what I was going to ask first! It's like they read my mind.
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A genuine parenting tip:
If you want to reprimand your children for their behavior, never start by asking questions you already know the answer to. Like, for instance, "Did you just shove an entire pancake in your mouth?" Because they're only going to either 1. lie very, very badly ("Mphlmmph!") or 2. helpfully physically show you that your suspicions were correct.
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S got a new toy stroller for her birthday, as planned. The stroller came with us on the walk to daycare, and home from daycare, and over to pick D up from a friend's house, and..... etc.
On the one hand, it helps keep her walking (/running down the street giggling insanely to herself). Well, mostly. The other hand is the times that she decides she's tired of walking, but still can't bring herself to let go of the stroller, so we end up walking down the street looking like this:
"I bless you to be happy and have everyone like you."
"I bless you to do lots of mitzvot and be smart and be a teacher."
"I bless you to eat lots of yellow cheese."
One girl's blessing was "that you marry a good guy." Which was pretty funny, because this was a seventh birthday.
The teacher (quietly) joked, "Yes, it's important to start praying for a good husband when you're seven," to which a student who overheard replied, "Nuh-uh! Not until you're eight!!"
****
I love that the first question in the Home Front Command pamphlet about earthquake preparedness is, "How do you know an earthquake is happening?"
Just what I was going to ask first! It's like they read my mind.
****
A genuine parenting tip:
If you want to reprimand your children for their behavior, never start by asking questions you already know the answer to. Like, for instance, "Did you just shove an entire pancake in your mouth?" Because they're only going to either 1. lie very, very badly ("Mphlmmph!") or 2. helpfully physically show you that your suspicions were correct.
****
S got a new toy stroller for her birthday, as planned. The stroller came with us on the walk to daycare, and home from daycare, and over to pick D up from a friend's house, and..... etc.
On the one hand, it helps keep her walking (/running down the street giggling insanely to herself). Well, mostly. The other hand is the times that she decides she's tired of walking, but still can't bring herself to let go of the stroller, so we end up walking down the street looking like this:
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