Wash behind your ears
Clean between your toes
Don’t chew your fingernails
Don’t pick your nose
Don’t cross your eyes
Your face will surely freeze
Remember, cover your mouth
Whenever you must sneeze
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Trifecta’s weekend challenge asked for some advice. I haven’t read anyone else’s advice, but I wouldn’t be TOO surprised if someone doesn’t say something along this line. Edited to add another couplet to rhyme “freeze”. It is said that a poem is never finished, just abandoned.
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Not part of the original 33, but added because I don’t want to miss an opportunity to do so – esp. after the full month I have had with training and Alaska Governor Sean Parnell’s 4th annual Choose Respect event, I give you the following advice I would offer a son, if I had one – and what I say to my grandsons.
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My Son
If you ask for the cherry
from her sundae and
she says No
honor that No
Someday she may offer it
Treat the offer with respect
Always respect
Always love
Always, my son
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And if the wind changes direction as you’re making silly faces – it will freeze and stay like that forever!
Listen to your granny.
Grandma’s advice always helped
Love it! Such fun advice from granny — sounds like she knew my granny too. 😉
You forgot the clean underwear warning. Grannies love clean underwear!
Oh Barb a delightful little poetic piece for the prompt. Got to love Nanna’s. 🙂
You can hear every parent and grandparent in these lines (: Awesome job!
I love this. This is pretty much what I do. All day. 🙂
Love this! It made me giggle. Well done!
This reminds me of my mom. Very wise Granny and a sweet one too!
Also, don’t chew on your toenails. Fun Asperger’s fact. It often comes with extraordinary physical flexibility. My daughter can give herself a dental pedicure. And she has a toe that is perpetually infected because she won’t leave it alone!
I need to keep the first piece for when I have my own granbabies. The second I’ve already told to my son.
The was great you nailed my Gramma and then we got a bonus clip.
Love this poem. Hoping I won’t be stealing it from you in the too near future!
so far, I like yours the best. Good take on prompt.
Chris Rock says “always wipe and stay off the pipe”…same thing huh?
good one MRS Moose
You cover a lot of ground here! Most of this I’ve said (repeatedly) to my kids. Every day, I remind them to use their napkins, not their shirts And still, they don’t listen…to any of it 🙂
I adore that granny poem and hope to use it one day!
That’s so like moms & grandmoms-perfect advice!:-)But Barbara I simply loved the advice you would have offered to your son(s)had you any-profound & excellent!Oh,loved the bit about a poem being abandoned & never finished-cool & I agree:-)