My dad was quite effective at this sort of thing. He told us that if we touched anything when we were in the store with him that the store owners would get very angry and put us in a basket and send us to China where bad boys and girls go. We believed him and were totally petrified of even accidently touching stuff in the store. I have a friend whose mother told him that if he stuck his finger too far into his bellybutton, that he would unravel. He believed her and was petrified of his own bellybutton for years.
Beware of the Australian drop bears . They are rumored to be island hopping from down under and approaching North America at a rate of hundreds of miles per year.
Too late (except for the picture part)
Heck, 1 in 6 British children think broccoli is a baby tree.
You did miss this one skyhook.
Dial soap and long, long Q-tips.
Back when I was a kid, Sandy Becker on his Metromedia Channel 5 show “Sandy’s Hour” used to shill for a particular brand of carrots. I ate them because of this. If he’d pushed their brand of broccoli, I might have ended up liking that, too. We could use more “pushing” of vegetables on kid’s shows.
As Dave Barry put it in his book Dave Barry Turns 50, if Howdy Dootie had advertised for Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in the original French, he and his friends would have begged for Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in the original French.
To keep me out of her hair when she’d make pierogies, my mom would give me a bowl of flour and water and let me make slop. I was maybe about three or four at the time. I told her I would make “sauce” for the pierogies. My mother let me believe that she actually put my “sauce” on the pierogies.