Family "glue"

[seeker]

Some of ours..

Saturday night telly (or a film when there's no Dr Who or Predator or I'd Do Anything) with home made pizza.

Pancakes for breakfast on Sundays.

Growing our own potatoes.

General family meeting/debrief on Thursday evening (only night when nobody has an activity) so everyone can talk about anything followed by Uno.

Broadstairs Folk Festival.

Always making all birthday cards.

Daddy gets a lie in on Sundays but needs to be pestered every 15 minutes by someone offering him a cup of tea.

Mummy always cries at everything - baby photos, little socks, I'd Do Anything....and has to be brought tissues.

All particularly brilliant drawings, painting, stories etc are sent immediately to Grandma.

I have to go and do some some family bonding time.

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I think a lot of the things on people's lists are family jokes and repeated sayings that evolved, rather than laboured contrivances
That's what I understood from seeker's OP - noting what seems to happen every time rather than issuing a decree

excercise has o be wiht er over 10 dh says

excercise has to be with HE over 10 DH says ??

excercise has o be wiht er over 10 dh says

excercise has to be with HR(heart rate) over 10 DH says.....even

she has me as bad as herself.

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gorgeous thread!

Ours...

Silly nicknames for the kids
silly words - 'frint puts' (foot prints)
'yonich' (orange) - mostly things th kids used to say when babies.

I'll have to think of some more...and hope to create lots more as the kids grow

Over 100? Perhaps?

Cod didn't your cat almost get the blame when that Nintendo went missing. Vaguely remember a thread about "things that cats steal"?

Our cat got blamed for the drawings on our walls .

It is entirely possible that the habit of shouting You Bugger at the cat functions as family glue in the Inferiority Complex. It has just fallen off my desk, with a look of great affront as it skidded off a mass of Important Papers.

Cod - if you don't like it, don't read it.

And for somebody who works so hard at their charmingly eccentric posting style to criticize ANYTHING for being contrived is a bit rich!

I like this thread I like elements of the Brady Bunch in a fucked up, scary world

My childhood was very unbrady bunch and our family had no glue.
I want to do things differently....

Shit, two smiley faces. Sorry, came over a bit too Brady Bunch there...

I used to be involved with running a parenting course, and we had a session called 'spiritual parenting' where you worked out what your family values were.

The lowest common denominator was to eat an occasional meal together, with the TV switched off, and do things like birthdays.

For us, we eat together every day, and the children get involved in preparing the meal. As a Christian family, we pray together and for one another.

Other than that, we take it as it comes. As a large family, we rarely have common ground, unless forced. We celebrate achievement etc., as and when, but the focus tends to be on the older children as their achievements are more tangible.

They are very good at playign together - for example, right now all five are playing water balloons (instigated by me, who DH just called 'such a child'), while DH and I look on, hoping not to draw too much attention.

but all mine are about making it easier for me

film in bed - no stories to read

Pizza Marguerita night - not paying £50 to struggle up restaurant steps with a wheelchair

the go mummy thing keeps their gobs occupied and stops them whining about stuff when I am concentrating

it is not barfy at all it is devious