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Can you see the signs?

What are some of your favorite 'signs' you have seen in your children that you do something too much or too little?

For example a couple of mine:

1. When my oldest was little we went through a particularly busy period where we were doing Banquet TV dinners nearly every night. One night I asked him to pick what he wanted for dinner and he said "Can we have something that is not in a red box?" And my first thought was '*No* of course not... what a silly question!'. <blush>

2. Just now my two middle kids were playing and one had to rush out to go potty. I heard her calling to her brother "Can you pause the game??" (they were *not* playing a computer/video game) I've heard her do this before in fact. Makes me wonder if daddy, mommy and big brother may have just a tad too much electronic entertainment in their lives. Hmmm............ Nah!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    my son recently started singing the lollipop song from the dell commercial. he doesn't watch it constantly, but it's always on, with all the people we live with, there is always someone watching tv. He also started yelling, "That's the power of oxi-clean!!!" every time i wipe up a spill. It's funny and cute, but yeah, clued me into the fact that the tv is on from the time someone around here gets up to the time the last one goes to bed.

    he also said, "mom, you talk allot" the other day when i was nagging him about something. I'm working on keeping it short and sweet. :)

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