Good habits for your kids to have?

TheDude1

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Okay... What are some habits you want your kids to have?

Mine have two right now that I really value.

One is that they are insanely polite. That's easy.

The other is that they both freeze when they tell them to. We've practiced it a bit, and it's saved a pair of potential messes... One when my son was about to back up into a pool, and the other when he was chasing a ball that was heading towards the street, and there was a car coming. Sounds silly, but...:)

Your kids got any habits you are happy with?
 

mdlUK.1

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1 avoid people that call themselves the dude

2 avoid people that think they have their kids trained
 
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H. Lecter

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1. Don't ever smoke cigarettes.
2. Don't drink and drive.
3. Always use a condom.
4. No tattoos until you're 27.
My son will be 18 and daughter will be 17 in a few months. They're both good kids with good aspirations. The first 3 on this list can REALLY change your life.
 

It'saDoneDeal

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1. Teach them to love UK. Center your whole life, including your vacations and daily emotional state, all around Kentucky sports. Enthrall them with completely embellished stories like how you literally cried when Calbert Cheaney won AP POTY over Jamal Mashburn or how as an elementary school kid you loved the witty digs against the refs Cawood Ledford used to make. Show them how you're the truest Big Blue fan by becoming emotionally wrecked by big losses, so much so that you literally drive to random parking lots to stay hours on end to grind your teeth and tear off the cover of your steering wheel.

2. Force them to play whatever sport you used to play. If they act disinterested, show them how much you care by screaming loudly. If the car ride home isn't incredibly awkward with your wife holding back from crying while you drive in silence, you haven't done your job.

3. Tell them to never leave the state of Kentucky. Kentucky is the greatest, most beautiful state in all the world, and you know this because you've lived there and nowhere else your entire life.

4. Teach them to follow politics just enough so they can have a strong opinion on the major topics. Teach them to be steadfast and unwilling to change their opinion, not even to entertain listening to someone who disagrees with them. Only have them hang around like-minded friends and social circles.

5. Force them to only listen to classic rock. Why bother to try to find new artists to like when all new music sucks? If you catch your son listening to rap (I call it "crap"), get out the belt and beat him.

6. Professional sports rooting interests have to follow strict geographic guidelines, but that only applies for the NFL since you're a bitter Bengals fan and are constantly looking for any reason to feel better about them being a perennial loser. Teach them the NBA sucks because no one plays defense and everyone travels. College basketball is clearly the purest, most enjoyable, sacred form of basketball ever created.

7. Teach them all new current fashion trends are gay. Have all the boys in the family dress like Midwestern frat stars circa 2004. Sports hats with super curved bills will never go out of style, even if you're pushing 40. And when it warms up, leather flip flops are a go-to look to match with your Ralph Lauren polo.