Groovy Mom » People Watching http://groovy-mom.com Striving for SIMPLICITY, one day at a time. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:18:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Listening to My Parents http://groovy-mom.com/2009/10/listening-to-my-parents/ http://groovy-mom.com/2009/10/listening-to-my-parents/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:41:51 +0000 Groovy Mom http://groovy-mom.com/?p=615 [...]]]> Today I overheard a couple of boys, about 11 years old, trying to peer-pressure another set of boys to disregard some rules that were posted. As the pressuring boys performed a stunt, directly ignoring the rules, they heckled the other pair, telling them to join in.

One of the rule-minding pair said, what I would coin as my favorite phrase of the day:

“I’m not a pansy if I’m listening to my parents.”

The pressuring boys continued in their mischief, still calling out, taunting and teasing. I took pleasure out of the fact that they rule-minders did not bend, but continued eating ice cream, continuing to establish that he was holding his ground.

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