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to married couples, but anger isn’t always look like that. I didn’t listen
De-Bunking the reserved for matrimony. If you’ve and now every time my mother sees
ever worked outside the home, me, she says, “Serves you right.”
Myths been part of a family, belonged to
an organization, or gone to school, Myth #7: Don’t play in the fire or
by Valerie Nusbaum chances are you’ve been angry at one you’ll wet the bed. Randy’s parents
time or another. If I hadn’t gone to used that one on him and his
In this column, I often write about President of the United States. I was bed angry, I wouldn’t have slept for brother. Randy still plays with fire,
the differences between men and a girl, after all, and I couldn’t do a about seven years. I had a horrible but these days he just burns up the
women. I mostly base my writing “man’s” job. boss, but that’s another story for hot dogs, and he hardly ever wets
on my own experiences living and another day. the bed.
sharing life with a member of the Randy, on the other hand, was
opposite sex. Randy often provides encouraged to spread his wings, go to Myth #3: Eat all your vegetables. Myth #8: Boys should play with
me with keen insights into the mind college, and conquer the world. He Or what? Will the veggie police trucks and girls should play with
of the male species. Sometimes I was a boy. He was allowed to play in come and arrest me? I understand dolls. First of all, G.I. Joe was a
shake with laughter, and sometimes I the dirt, while my mother made me that vegetables are good for us, and doll, not an action figure. My Barbie
simply shake. sit on a bench in my sandbox so that sometimes parents have a hard time drove around in a Tonka dump
my dress wouldn’t get dirty. getting kids to eat them. Honestly, truck, but only when Mom wasn’t
My husband and I recently had though, some vegetables are ugly to looking. If Mom caught me, she’d
a conversation about the upcoming I’m glad that times and viewpoints look at. They smell funny and they threaten to send me to the home
presidential election. For the first time have changed and things are starting don’t always taste good. Randy never for wayward girls. My brother was
in the history of our country a woman to equal out. I wonder what the ate his vegetables and look at how he always threatened with military
is representing one of the two major world will be like in another hundred turned out. Maybe I should re-think school. I guess there was no home
parties in a bid for the top office. As years. Sometimes, I breathe a sigh of this one. for wayward boys.
a woman myself, I feel proud and relief that I won’t be around to find
happy and that it’s about darn time. out. Myth #4: Save your “best” for Myth #9: If you don’t eat fruit,
Whether you’re a fan of Mrs. Clinton Sundays and special occasions. If you’ll get scurvy. Randy and Dale
or not, it’s still a big deal to have a My purpose in rambling on this life has taught us anything, it’s that didn’t know what scurvy was, but
woman in the race, right? way is this: As children, we were all nothing is a given. Break out the they definitely didn’t want it, so they
taught a lot of things that haven’t good stuff and take pleasure in using ate lots of fruit. These days, Randy
I explained to Randy that back in held up over the years. It’s time to do it. If the china gets broken, get angry doesn’t eat much fruit at all because
the dark ages when we grew up, little some de-bunking. and go to bed. Plus, you won’t have it was forced on him as a child.
girls were encouraged to be beauty to eat your vegetables. Also, he knows now that pirates got
queens and mommies. We were Myth #1: Always wear clean scurvy while they were at sea, and
steered toward careers in teaching underwear in case you’re in an Myth #5: Don’t keep digging in he thinks pirates are cool.
or nursing, or we became secretaries accident. Seriously? Chances are that same spot or you’ll reach China.
and office workers. I was never told that if you’re in an accident, your I don’t even know what to say about Myth #10: Your mother has eyes
that I could grow up and become underwear won’t be clean anyway. this one. in the back of her head. Okay, this
one is true. I mean, how else did
Myth #2: Never go to bed angry. Myth #6: Stop making that face my mom know I was making those
I think this advice was mostly given or your face will freeze, and you’ll faces?
to married couples, but anger isn’t always look like that. I didn’t listen
De-Bunking the reserved for matrimony. If you’ve and now every time my mother sees
ever worked outside the home, me, she says, “Serves you right.”
Myths been part of a family, belonged to
an organization, or gone to school, Myth #7: Don’t play in the fire or
by Valerie Nusbaum chances are you’ve been angry at one you’ll wet the bed. Randy’s parents
time or another. If I hadn’t gone to used that one on him and his
In this column, I often write about President of the United States. I was bed angry, I wouldn’t have slept for brother. Randy still plays with fire,
the differences between men and a girl, after all, and I couldn’t do a about seven years. I had a horrible but these days he just burns up the
women. I mostly base my writing “man’s” job. boss, but that’s another story for hot dogs, and he hardly ever wets
on my own experiences living and another day. the bed.
sharing life with a member of the Randy, on the other hand, was
opposite sex. Randy often provides encouraged to spread his wings, go to Myth #3: Eat all your vegetables. Myth #8: Boys should play with
me with keen insights into the mind college, and conquer the world. He Or what? Will the veggie police trucks and girls should play with
of the male species. Sometimes I was a boy. He was allowed to play in come and arrest me? I understand dolls. First of all, G.I. Joe was a
shake with laughter, and sometimes I the dirt, while my mother made me that vegetables are good for us, and doll, not an action figure. My Barbie
simply shake. sit on a bench in my sandbox so that sometimes parents have a hard time drove around in a Tonka dump
my dress wouldn’t get dirty. getting kids to eat them. Honestly, truck, but only when Mom wasn’t
My husband and I recently had though, some vegetables are ugly to looking. If Mom caught me, she’d
a conversation about the upcoming I’m glad that times and viewpoints look at. They smell funny and they threaten to send me to the home
presidential election. For the first time have changed and things are starting don’t always taste good. Randy never for wayward girls. My brother was
in the history of our country a woman to equal out. I wonder what the ate his vegetables and look at how he always threatened with military
is representing one of the two major world will be like in another hundred turned out. Maybe I should re-think school. I guess there was no home
parties in a bid for the top office. As years. Sometimes, I breathe a sigh of this one. for wayward boys.
a woman myself, I feel proud and relief that I won’t be around to find
happy and that it’s about darn time. out. Myth #4: Save your “best” for Myth #9: If you don’t eat fruit,
Whether you’re a fan of Mrs. Clinton Sundays and special occasions. If you’ll get scurvy. Randy and Dale
or not, it’s still a big deal to have a My purpose in rambling on this life has taught us anything, it’s that didn’t know what scurvy was, but
woman in the race, right? way is this: As children, we were all nothing is a given. Break out the they definitely didn’t want it, so they
taught a lot of things that haven’t good stuff and take pleasure in using ate lots of fruit. These days, Randy
I explained to Randy that back in held up over the years. It’s time to do it. If the china gets broken, get angry doesn’t eat much fruit at all because
the dark ages when we grew up, little some de-bunking. and go to bed. Plus, you won’t have it was forced on him as a child.
girls were encouraged to be beauty to eat your vegetables. Also, he knows now that pirates got
queens and mommies. We were Myth #1: Always wear clean scurvy while they were at sea, and
steered toward careers in teaching underwear in case you’re in an Myth #5: Don’t keep digging in he thinks pirates are cool.
or nursing, or we became secretaries accident. Seriously? Chances are that same spot or you’ll reach China.
and office workers. I was never told that if you’re in an accident, your I don’t even know what to say about Myth #10: Your mother has eyes
that I could grow up and become underwear won’t be clean anyway. this one. in the back of her head. Okay, this
one is true. I mean, how else did
Myth #2: Never go to bed angry. Myth #6: Stop making that face my mom know I was making those
I think this advice was mostly given or your face will freeze, and you’ll faces?
