For the parents in the League.
Sample:
For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of the unclean plate, the laws are these: If you have eaten most of your meat, and two bites of your peas with each bite consisting of not less than three peas each, or in total six peas, eaten where I can see, and you have also eaten enough of your potatoes to fill two forks, both forkfuls eaten where I can see, then you shall have dessert.
So true. My favorite part…. “Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape?”Report
My dad found this when I was a kid and my family reread it nearly almost every year. It’s a classic.Report
Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go into the syrup. And now behold, even as I have said, it has come to pass.
Oh, I’d forgotten how good this was.Report
The parents of the nephews had the peas conversation with the youngest at the Christmas table.
I printed this out and read excerpts. It killed.Report
, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room.
I am not a parent, but my mom says this to me often enough that I laughed.Report