The author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines, collections of comic essays based on her family life, had five sons. She kept a carpet slipper for disciplinary purposes because, she said, while the noise produced was awesome, the actual damage inflicted was negligible.
I also used to moderate my voice, using primate behavioral studies as a model. Deep growling was authority; higher pitched shouting was alarm. If I wanted subordination, I needed to use a deeper voice, not the voice that warned of a leopard in the vicinity.
Re: The Snake Has All the Lines: One of her sons came home disconsolate with the role of Adam in the school Bible history play. She told him, "But honey, that's wonderful! You have the lead!" He replied, "Yeah, but the snake has all the lines."
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- Did I miss any comment on the Angela Merkel incident?
- Aussies do it better (or worse)
- Off with his head! (n/t)
- Instantly overexposed
- Bush is that way.
- Merkel's best possible response (said with a big smile)
- At least he didn't lift her shirt and kiss her stomach
- Like Putin and the young boy?
- It's a Russian thing?
- Quite the contrary...
- I'm delighted to have disappointed you.
- Crying babies are meant to be paddled. Gotcha! ;-) (n/t)
- Whining preschoolers are meant to be put in time-out.
- "If you need to know now...."
- ...where angels fear to tread.
- Another parent voting with Mary Anne
- HZ Moms of the World Unite! (n/t)
- Amazing how we differ here.
- Whining preschoolers are meant to be put in time-out.
- re: I'm delighted to have disappointed you.
- Crying babies are meant to be paddled. Gotcha! ;-) (n/t)
- Quit picking on liberals....
- I'm delighted to have disappointed you.
- An Armenian thing...
- In Bush's defense
- Quite the contrary...
- It's a Russian thing?
- Like Putin and the young boy?
- Sorry, very improper
- Aussies do it better (or worse)