DailySusan Humor Blog

SOME MEN SHALL BE KINGS, SOME WARRIORS, AND SOME. . . .

We are appalled at our daughter Maddy’s rebellion and disrespect. She has decorated the entire corner of her bedroom wall around her bed with crayon drawings and her first scribbled words and phrases. We have scolded her and plan to make her scrub it clean one of these days.

When she is in the room, we do our best, Oscar-winning, “I’m disappointed in you!” acting job, which parents learn to do in order to teach the hard lessons of life.

But . . . it’s awfully cute, too. The walls are plain white and we’ve been meaning to paint them a pretty color or wallpaper the room for more than six years, anyway. So it’s not that great of a loss. Besides, there are some things on there that are odd and deranged. It’ll make great blackmail material when she’s a teenager.

For example, in two places, she wrote:

A FROG
POOPT
ON DAD

I yelled at her, bigtime, when I saw that vulgar phrase. “Maddy! How could you write that about your father?”

She looked at me with a twinkling smile. “It’s his DESTINY!”