Thought Control

Setting: Sunday dinner

Dad: Monkey eat your meat

Mom: If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Princess: Really, we're having pudding?

Mom: No!

Cue Mom doing her best rendition of the Pink Floyd song...We don't need no education....

Dad pops out of his chair to find the song. (he sings off and on too substituting the word edu-ma-cation...for fun)

Kids begin to sing in their best British accents. Monkey does awesome air guitar. Princess grabs a broom for a mic and also adds choreography to the song.

Mom: You might not want to say these words to your teacher. She might not find it funny.

Mom: This is a lesson in grammar...the correct way to say it is We don't need ANY education. AND we don't say Leave THEM kids alone, we say leave THOSE kids alone.

Princess: Of course mom!

Dad: Did you know that there are 5 versions of this song on this album?

Mom: No, I did not know that. You learn something new every day.

Princess: I like the one about education best.

AAAAAND Scene.

That is just a little "slice of life" of a happy (yet somewhat odd) little family.