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<\/a><\/p>\n1. “What do you say?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: I want you to say “please.” I want you to understand kindness is more important than always getting everything you want. (But I want you to go after what you want in life, too. Even if right now it’s mainly fruit snacks.)<\/p>\n 2. “Because I said so.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: I’m totally out of worthwhile parenting wisdom, and I’m trying not to lose my shit.<\/p>\n 3. “Do you want me to take away ____ ?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: Crap. Please don’t be a stinker and\u00a0say “yes.” Please play nicely\u00a0so I can go to the bathroom alone. Means: I’m not actually against creating art from dinner leftovers, but I don’t enjoy cleaning and, let’s be honest, that’s where this is going. Means: I’m one part trying to teach you that actions have consequences and one part trying to get you the hell away from me for two minutes.<\/p>\n 6. “Say ‘thank you.'”<\/strong> 7. “Say ‘you’re welcome.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: I want you to know that others should appreciate you, too.<\/p>\n 8. “Ask your sister if she’s okay.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: I want you to understand we have the power to hurt others, even when we didn’t mean to, but that it’s never too late to let someone know we’re sorry.<\/p>\n 9. “No.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: No. You can’t always get what you want isn’t just an old song.<\/p>\n 10. “I love you.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Means: More than I’ll ever be able to explain to you, unless you are lucky enough to have kids of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. “What do you say?” Means: I want you to say “please.” I want you to understand kindness is more important than always getting everything you want. (But I want you to go after...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643],"tags":[765,766],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-and-motherhood","tag-funny-parenting-wisdom","tag-parenting-phrases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/314416_10150316165970197_873104115_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4dYEp-1Lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferswhite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n4. “Stop playing with your food.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\n5. “Go to timeout.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMeans: I want you to appreciate other people and the things they do for you.<\/p>\n