Hey, y'all! Amanda, here. Wanda from MyShopDiscounts has a guest post for you today with a twist! The kind of twist that has $100 attached to it. (Hubba, hubba.) Stop by The Review Stew and Obviously Marvelous this week to collect your clues to WIN. Please check out the contest rules and Wanda's hilarious guest post below. Entering is easy and winning is fun! Good luck! ~Amanda
Win $100 with The October MyShopDiscounts Blog Scavenger Hunt:
My Shop Discounts is opening up October with a cash-prize scavenger hunt, with a little help from our blog friends. MSD is guest-posting on three popular family interest blogs this week. Read the posts, get the clues, figure out the answer, and you can win $100! Three readers will receive $100 for figuring out this popular movie quote, and the movie it came from:
Rules:
1) Get the 3 clues from our guests posts on the following popular blogs this week:
Tuesday: thereviewstew.com
Wednesday: werdyab.com
Thursday: obviously-marvelous.com
2) Once you figure out the the clue, message the answer (full quote, and movie it came from) to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MyShopDiscounts
3) Find out Monday, October 8th, to see if you’re one of the $100 winners!
(Today’s clue is at the end of this post)
When kids curse, I step out of the car and yell, part 1
My eight- year- old daughter, Clay, dropped an "F" bomb at the dinner table and I almost choked on the lasagna. It took all of my willpower to prevent myself from exploding into a violent rage. Then, when the storm in my head passed, I did what every responsible parent would've done. First, I asked her where the first "F" bomb was dropped.
"During recess," Clay said.
"That's a very, very bad word, Clay," I said.
Second, I went to plan A:
"Children who use that word are put on Santa's naughty list."
"Santa isn't real, mommy."
"And where did you hear that?"
"TV."
Then, I set some consequences.
"Every time I hear you use that word, I'm canceling ten television channels."
From the disappointed look on her face, I figured that maybe I had triumphed. Only maybe, because Clay is just like me. We're stubborn, unpredictable, resistant to good advice, persistent in our beliefs, clever (always plotting a plan B) and we both think television has far too many channels, anyway.
Actually, I could almost see the shrug in her eyes.
"As your mom, I'm commanding you to remove that word from your vocabulary, forever."
"Okay, mommy. Don't hurt the television, please."
The beautiful thing about Clay is that, as stubborn as she is, she listens to me. I must've done something right.
"And Santa Claus is real," I said, closing the "F" bomb conversation.
The next day, as I picked Clay up from school, I overheard another "F" bomb being dropped in the distance. I knew I wasn't hearing things, because Clay and I made eye contact (the kind of eye contact exchanged between two people and one strange odor in an elevator).
"Not me," she said immediately, defensively.
I hopped out of the car and squinted at a congregation of older kids standing outside the bus stop.
"Who said that?" I cried out in my angry voice. They looked back and laughed. A few parents stared at me. I realized how pathetic and strange I looked standing on the sidewalk looking for a perpetrator no one else acknowledged.
Is this what the world has come to? Ladies and gentleman, has our society been soaked with so many cuss words and graphic images that it has become normal to hear kids dropping "F" bombs? Not in my world. I, for one, will not stand by and have our kids' virtues soiled.
"Mom," Clay whispered from the passenger seat window. "You're embarrassing me."
I stepped into the car with a dense cloud of silence. We drove home with that silence in the car. During dinner, Clay looked up from the asparagus on her plate.
"What other words shouldn't I say?" she asked.
I blinked, at a total loss for words. In this case, a total loss for cuss words.
(To be continued...)
Yes, this is a cliffhanger, people! Don't we all need a little suspense in our lives? What would you guys do in my shoes (size 8 1/2)? Leave a comment and don't forget read part 2 on obviously-marvelous.com! Here’s today’s clue:
Make sure you read all the guest posts this week for a shot at the $100!
Tuesday: thereviewstew.com
Wednesday: werdyab.com
Thursday: obviously-marvelous.com
My Shop Discounts is opening up October with a cash-prize scavenger hunt, with a little help from our blog friends. MSD is guest-posting on three popular family interest blogs this week. Read the posts, get the clues, figure out the answer, and you can win $100! Three readers will receive $100 for figuring out this popular movie quote, and the movie it came from:
____ is ___ of _____________ and ____________
Rules:
1) Get the 3 clues from our guests posts on the following popular blogs this week:
Tuesday: thereviewstew.com
Wednesday: werdyab.com
Thursday: obviously-marvelous.com
2) Once you figure out the the clue, message the answer (full quote, and movie it came from) to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MyShopDiscounts
3) Find out Monday, October 8th, to see if you’re one of the $100 winners!
(Today’s clue is at the end of this post)
When kids curse, I step out of the car and yell, part 1
My eight- year- old daughter, Clay, dropped an "F" bomb at the dinner table and I almost choked on the lasagna. It took all of my willpower to prevent myself from exploding into a violent rage. Then, when the storm in my head passed, I did what every responsible parent would've done. First, I asked her where the first "F" bomb was dropped.
"During recess," Clay said.
"That's a very, very bad word, Clay," I said.
Second, I went to plan A:
"Children who use that word are put on Santa's naughty list."
"Santa isn't real, mommy."
"And where did you hear that?"
"TV."
Then, I set some consequences.
"Every time I hear you use that word, I'm canceling ten television channels."
From the disappointed look on her face, I figured that maybe I had triumphed. Only maybe, because Clay is just like me. We're stubborn, unpredictable, resistant to good advice, persistent in our beliefs, clever (always plotting a plan B) and we both think television has far too many channels, anyway.
Actually, I could almost see the shrug in her eyes.
"As your mom, I'm commanding you to remove that word from your vocabulary, forever."
"Okay, mommy. Don't hurt the television, please."
The beautiful thing about Clay is that, as stubborn as she is, she listens to me. I must've done something right.
"And Santa Claus is real," I said, closing the "F" bomb conversation.
The next day, as I picked Clay up from school, I overheard another "F" bomb being dropped in the distance. I knew I wasn't hearing things, because Clay and I made eye contact (the kind of eye contact exchanged between two people and one strange odor in an elevator).
"Not me," she said immediately, defensively.
I hopped out of the car and squinted at a congregation of older kids standing outside the bus stop.
"Who said that?" I cried out in my angry voice. They looked back and laughed. A few parents stared at me. I realized how pathetic and strange I looked standing on the sidewalk looking for a perpetrator no one else acknowledged.
Is this what the world has come to? Ladies and gentleman, has our society been soaked with so many cuss words and graphic images that it has become normal to hear kids dropping "F" bombs? Not in my world. I, for one, will not stand by and have our kids' virtues soiled.
"Mom," Clay whispered from the passenger seat window. "You're embarrassing me."
I stepped into the car with a dense cloud of silence. We drove home with that silence in the car. During dinner, Clay looked up from the asparagus on her plate.
"What other words shouldn't I say?" she asked.
I blinked, at a total loss for words. In this case, a total loss for cuss words.
(To be continued...)
Yes, this is a cliffhanger, people! Don't we all need a little suspense in our lives? What would you guys do in my shoes (size 8 1/2)? Leave a comment and don't forget read part 2 on obviously-marvelous.com! Here’s today’s clue:
Wednesday’s clue: “Life”
____ is ___ of _____________ and ____________
Make sure you read all the guest posts this week for a shot at the $100!
Tuesday: thereviewstew.com
Wednesday: werdyab.com
Thursday: obviously-marvelous.com
Cheers,
Wanda
