Momma Rock's Rules For Tweens

Chris Rocks' Mom who has parented 17 kids ( her own plus many foster children) has written a book and is making the rounds on the talk shows. It sounds great! and she is pretty funny herself, and she said Chris was not funny at all as a kid. Apparently he began to be funny on his front porch stoop mimicking his mother!! Not good, I would imagine, when Mom is a tough disciplinarian. But how else could you raise 17 kids and not be a beat up , half empty punching bag when it was over-- now she's a grandma. We both agree on that --pure FUN!!!

Anyway she wavered my thinking on my one HARD FAST RULE that my tweens LOVED to argue with me about ------" NO TV IN THE BEDROOMS" (bedrooms of kids that is..............I finished school in the top 50 of a class of 700 and I earned my TV in my bedroom......so don't go there) TV in the bedrooms allows a kid to be too isolated from the family and lets them surf through tons of garbage content and there's a ton of garbage on TV.

Anyway she said that certain kids could have a TV in their room..............."who would that be ?" asked Whoopee...........Kids who finished their homework first, only watched decent content and shut it of at a predetermined time set by the parent.

On what planet , and in what galaxy far far away do they bioengineer tweens like this? I've never met a kid who could meet these qualifications.........NEVER!!! As soon as they get old enough...............say 11 or 12 ,to understand the rules they move into the sneakiest years - when the lying begins. Lots of little lies to avoid getting yelled at -- they all do it. It's called keeping the Mom off my back.

Oh I know who would qualify for the TV in the bedroom ...............Steve Erkel ! Can you think of any others????