Gag-Proof Your Parenting Attitude! (Get the Funk Out Your Home!)

Gag reflex warning: Best read by those with a minimal gag reflex. The rest of you, please move to somewhere safe before reading and/or grab a brown paper bag,

Test 1: PUKE! Still okay? You passed.

Test 2: Video

Okay, you are good to go.

The Pool of Vomit That Swallowed the Smithsonian!

Well almost. This is a true story.

I was in the band in high school. (I promise, WE were cool. Okay, okay, maybe we weren't). So anyway, our band went on a trip up to Washington DC for a competition and to march in a parade. We also got in quite a bit of sightseeing at the various monuments.

On one particular day, we were visiting one of the Smithsonian's. I was with a group of 5-6 people. We were bopping past the snack bar, talking and laughing, paying no attention to where we were going (as teenagers are wont to do) when I suddenly looked down to see a HUGE puddle of vomit!!

I was on point, but didn't even have time to tell my groupmates. As I acrobatically sidestepped the puddle I got a little bit on my shoe. Stephanie right behind me wasn't as lucky...she stepped right in--looked down, and IMMEDIATELY threw up...thus making this already impressive vomit puddle even more expansive. The rest of us were sent reeling and gagging away.

No one escaped unscathed. As we sat down and did our best to wipe the vomit from our shoes...another group of band members came strolling by.

"Mary! Susan!" we shouted. Too late.

Next thing we knew, Mary and Susan BOTH went sloshing through the vomit lake--looked down, and IMMEDIATELY threw up!! A bystander who had been laughing at everyone else was overcome and PROJECTILED TOO--which started another vomit pool.

Finally, the Smithsonian cleaning crew showed up, sprinkled the pixie dust on the puke ocean (and pond) and the Smithsonian was saved from the vomit threat. And we, we who endured the horror together became very close, like a family. A family of vomit funk survivors.

Believe it or not, there is a tie in here with parenting--besides the importance of having a strong gag reflex. (Somebody holla' poopy diaper!!!) And I wanted a RIVETING attention-getter to make this point unforgettable.

It's all about attitude ma and/or pa.

The gag reflex is powerful. When vomit funks up a place--the sight and smell of it causes an IMMEDIATE reaction in everyone there.

In the same way, if we typically grumble, complain, act grumpy and rude--and inflict that on others in our home, we totally funk up the environment. People gag on that and start spewing out the same filthy funk right back at us.

Make no mistake, as parents we set the attitude tone in the home. If it's a sweet-smelling attitude in the home, and you're all chill with love, positivity, courtesy and respect, I guarantee you or another "together" adult is behind it.

If it be funky up in the home? An adult is probl'y behind that too. And we all make the choice every day between a "funky" or "sweet-smelling" attitude tone in our home. What's yours...today?

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