ARBITRARY RULES

Huffington Post collected some funny tweets about the arbitray rules parent make for their kids:
– “I love the arbitrary rules I make as a parent like, No you can’t have potato chips for breakfast but please have this sugar-ladened cereal instead.”
– “I wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons until I was 19, but my mom offered to put me on birth control when I was 13.”
– “I keep telling my family, ‘Don’t blame me, I dont make the rules’ yet I make literally every single rule in this house.”
– “We don’t eat ice cream for breakfast. Why not? Mostly because I don’t want to share it.”
– “‘No more French fries until you eat a chicken nugget’ is my personal favorite.”
– “‘We don’t eat candy we find in the public restroom’ is a rule I had to make for 3 kids today.”
– “I had my oldest son convinced for years that I didn’t have any control over the rules. When he’d question something, I’d shrug and say, ‘Well, that’s the rule.’ He was about 7 when he caught on.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Did your parents have any arbitrary rules for you growing up? What rules have you made up lately?