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Your top 3 'NON-NEGOTIABLE' family rules.

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Saturn74 · 26/11/2006 17:57

Children: two boys aged 10 and 8.
Our top three, non-negotiable rules are:
1: No hitting, swearing, mimicking or name calling.
2: No speaking whilst you have food in your mouth.

3: Put all dirty clothes and wet towels in the laundry basket.

What are your top three?

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nikkie · 26/11/2006 21:24

5 & 6 btw

funnypeculiar · 26/11/2006 21:31

DS 2 1/2, DD 8 months

If you shout/whinge I can't hear you
When the buzzer goes, the TV goes off
Everyone has a bed time kiss (so stongly ingrained that ds insisted on going in and kissing dd in bed up one night when he was in a mood at bathtime and wouldn't kiss her )

(And todays rule ... stop sitting on your sister when I say so, even if she's giggling...)

Flamesparrow · 26/11/2006 21:32

FP - our four would get on well!

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eemie · 26/11/2006 21:33

I once heard dd (who was 2) warning her cousin: 'if you whine and whine and whine and whine it means you have to go to bed'.

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Saturn74 · 26/11/2006 21:33

LOL at nikkie re "dd2, Queen of the loopholes!"

My DS2 could negotiate for England!

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partybabestitch · 26/11/2006 21:35

absolutley no negative criticism of my sisters or parents allowed. except by me
everything else, well id like to think they are non negotioable, and we dont negotiate, but tht doesnt mean they dont get brokenn. all the usual. eating in the kitchen. no biting hitting smacking yelling swearing. jumping on furniture. etc etc dirty clothes in laundry bin. aiming correctly when weeing standing up. urggghhh. that the thing that drives me insane

nikkie · 26/11/2006 21:42

HumphreyCushion-dd2 bit my arm, I said don't bite Mammys arm , so she bit my leg [rolls eyes]
at school she was biting yr2 boys(she is in reception)dinner lady says"dd2 don't hurt them" dd2"its ok I am only biting the coats"[rolls eyes]
Have to really think about what I say to her re rules!

Jimjams2 · 26/11/2006 21:46

no windows allowed to be open when ds1 is around
external doors to be locked with removable key when ds1 is around
bedtime is bedtime (although in ds1's case involves barriers).

Mercy · 26/11/2006 21:53

lol Cappucino - same here!

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Saturn74 · 26/11/2006 23:33

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lulumama · 26/11/2006 23:41

ds is 7 , dd is 15 months

bedtime is bed time...unless your bed has burst into flames or a monster is trying to eat you...i don;t want to know!!

treat others as you would like to be treated, be kind and sensitive to others feelings (but we do struggle with that ! esp. if the bedtime rule has ben broken and we are tired!!)

no carrying babylulu around the house upside down, by her ankles, trying to dip her head into the dog bowl!

SoMuchToBits · 26/11/2006 23:43

LOL at bed burst into flames... my ds is fire engine mad, and would use that as an excuse to get all his toy firemen out.

colditz · 26/11/2006 23:44

No standing naked on the windowsill
Don't insert anything into your brother
Although bedtime is negotiable, getting up time bloody is not, it isn't happening before 7 am so bloody go back to bed you horrors.

Did I say that out loud?

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Saturn74 · 26/11/2006 23:45

ROFL @ "Don't insert anything into your brother"

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colditz · 26/11/2006 23:48

Ds1 (3.6) has discovered the delights of a baby that will open his mouth for anything. Crayons, hula hoops, lego

[ds2 is sooooo sheltered

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Saturn74 · 26/11/2006 23:49

It's a very wise rule, clearly!

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colditz · 26/11/2006 23:51

Ds1s favourite trick until recently was to climb out of his bed, into the windowsil in his room, and stand there, butt naked, calling "help! I am stuck!"

AtterySquash · 27/11/2006 00:01
  1. If you're going to wee in someone's bed make sure it's your own (or at least not mine).
  2. Do not draw on your brother.
  3. The Green and Black's white chocolate in the fridge is only for grown ups (specifically Mummy).

DD 7 and DS 4.

mrsnoah · 27/11/2006 00:32

  1. Do not bang on the bathroom door when I am on the Loo!

  2. Do not play with the goldfish... the last one didnt like it.

  3. DO NOT BATH THE CAT
    (Oh believe me, it has been done)

Beelliesebub · 27/11/2006 00:42

Ds1 19, ds2 18, ds3 15, ds4 14 and dh 40.

  1. No coming in drunk and taking the swing bin lid upstairs "in case you're sick"
  1. Absolutely no girls in your room.
  1. Don't keep your loose change in your mouth because when you fight with your brothers, you choke and your parents have to take you to A & E.
CantWaitForTheSnow · 27/11/2006 09:40

These rules are SO funny! We don't have any at the moment (dd 7 months).

Flamesparrow · 27/11/2006 09:45

lmao @ the loose change!!!

DH rules:

  1. No talking to girls. "Yes, M is a girl - she has breasts... that point upwards " (M is apparently "one of the lads" )

  2. No rebound groping (M broken up with boyfriend)

  3. Never look "Does my top look nice?" You don't look, I have been telling you about the lovely new top for days, you just say YES

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Saturn74 · 27/11/2006 10:28

LOL at "No rebound groping"!

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edam · 27/11/2006 14:02

panic is the right word Hub, giggling rule introduced after he hid so well I was convinced he'd actually got out of the house, the little pickle.

fennel · 27/11/2006 14:05

My latest non-negotiable is "Do not use Mummy's toothbrush to groom the hamster.