Things I’ve Learned From My Children
- A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.
- If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
- A 3-year-old’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
- If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42-pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.
- You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you will have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. Ceiling fans can hit a baseball a long way.
- The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
- When you hear the toilet flush and the words “uh oh,” it’s already too late.
- Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke and lots of it.
- A six-year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
- Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old.
- ‘Play Doh’ and ‘microwave’ should not be used in the same sentence.
- Super glue is forever.
- No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
- Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
- VCRs do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
- Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
- Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
- You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
- Always look in the oven before you turn it on – plastic toys do not like ovens.
- The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.
- The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
- It will, however, make cats dizzy.
- Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
- The mind of a 6-year old is wonderful. First grade…true story-polite version: One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She read, “and so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said, ‘Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?’…” The teacher paused then asked the class, “And what do you think that man said?” One little boy raised his hand and said, “I think he said…’Holy cow! A talking pig!'” The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.
- 60% of men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid. (I was just thinking about doing it when I read this!!!- Todd)
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My exact thought to number 8 was “I want to try it to see if it really does create smoke.” So what’s the percentace of women reading this?
When I read number 8, my thought was I hope my 17 year old doesn’t see this. He loves anything that makes smoke or noise. I don’t know how many women read this, but its been good for me, my husband and my family. By the way, it’s so good to hear that other yards look like ours. My husband and I do try to remember that some day we’ll wish we had a cluttered yard.
Bubble gum looks very similar to a hot dog when thrown up by a 3 y.o., but such a sight will make a pregnant woman throw up… what ever she has eaten in I don’t know, 5 days?
The power window motor on a car is very “powerful”, do not attempt (as much as you may want to) to stop it from going up with your fingers. I strongly advise you to use your “handS” for better leverage.