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Parent appreciation post.

Growing up, my friends always viewed my household as “the house with no rules” - we could eat what we wanted when we wanted, sleep when we wanted, watch TV or get on the computer when we wanted, we didn’t go to school… And while all of that was true (and awesome), we did have a few rules, and I think they were the absolute best rules you can have in a household.

  • “Shut up” and “stupid” are swear words. They were the only things Jake and I weren’t allowed to say. You never attack anyone’s sense of self, period. I think this is a big part of the reason why I’m never afraid to speak my mind and I have so much confidence in my abilities. No one ever told me I was stupid or that I shouldn’t say what I think.
  • No yelling. My parents never yelled at us, we never yelled at them, we never yelled at each other. And today I realized that in the 3 years of our relationship, Jordan and I have never once yelled at each other, because I know that’s not how you solve a conflict.
  • Read for 30 minutes everyday. Every day after we finished our school work, Jake and I were each responsible for at least a half an hour of personal reading. It could be a book, a magazine, a graphic novel - as long as it was paper in our hands.

Those are the only 3 real rules that I remember from growing up, and all of them still have practical application in my life today.

♥ Feb 25th at 6PM / reblog / 145 notes
  1. lostinthesedreams reblogged this from beautiful-smiles
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  3. journey-tohealthy reblogged this from findingthinagain and added:
    thankful for that. There was some yelling...much better conflict solving schools than...
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  8. whiskeyxkisses said: i’m jealous of rule number 3. i used to read so much as a child that if my parents wanted to punish me they would take away my books, which never made any sense to me as a child because i knew reading was good.
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  10. femmerun said: I wasn’t allowed to say “shut up” or “stupid” in my house either! Although, I really like that “no yelling” rule. I wish we had that. I’m too used to it/hearing it now. :/