Category Archives: Rules Mama Never Told Me I’d Need To Make

Wheelies

By Headmistress | Published: July 7, 2014

We had our boy after six daughters. And then God laughed. “Be careful,” people said. “Don’t spoil him,” they warned. “Poor kid doesn’t stand a chance,” they chortled. “He’ll be so coddled,” they agreed. There was an assumption that six big sisters and his mama would baby him so much he would always be a […]

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Rules Their Mother Never Told Them They Needed to Make

By Headmistress | Published: May 17, 2014

“Don’t stick your hand in the peanut butter.” “Don’t head-butt your mother.” “We don’t pick babies up by their heads.” “Don’t lick your cousin’s tongue.” “Don’t throw blocks at the window.”   The grandbabies are here today, and these are all statements I have heard today.   I am pretty sure that we have also […]

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Boys.

By Headmistress | Published: November 25, 2013

My 15 y.o. son, on a whim, put the head of the deer he or my husband shot this weekend into the woodburning stove in my sunroom.  I have no idea why he thought that was a good idea. I heard his 17 y.o. sister saying, “I can’t believe you did that!  Gross!  How could […]

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They Grow Bigger, But Not Necessarily Wiser

By Headmistress | Published: February 2, 2013

Some of you have read my posts of Rules My Mother Never Told Me I’d Need to Make, compiled on an as needed basis.  For example, several years ago our then much smaller son came inside crying, his back and sides considerably scraped up.  He and the sister closest to him in age had been […]

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Rules the DHM Never told The Equuschick She Would Need to Make

By Equuschick | Published: July 17, 2012

*Please do not chase imaginary bats down the toilet. *Please do not “scrub” the windows with Mommy’s deoderant. *Please do not mop the floor with water from the toilet. *Please do not pour out your toddler potty on the kitchen floor, just to see what happens. To Be Continued…

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