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Showing posts with label table manners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label table manners. Show all posts

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Magpie 120-Nag nag nag....

Some mothers have said:

"Elbows off the table
I'm not amused
Eat your veggies
Eat your fruit
NO!
 You're not excused

Finish your dinner
Clean your plate
Use your fork
Don't waste food
NO!
You cannot stay up late

Think of all the starving children
In Kuwait
In China
In India
NO!
Sit up straight"


Meanwhile the child is thinking:
"Thank god we're vegetarians
Just think how I'd look if I ate meat....
hmmm that could be neat...."



Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this challenging image
by Klaus Enrique Gerdes
and to see what other folk's have come up with go here:
http://magpietales.blogspot.com/