Ahhh, broccoli. The powerhouse food. Packed with nutrients and life-giving goodness. We learned a big lesson from broccoli today. The lesson: don't flush it down the potty. Yep, it doesn't fit through the pipes. It WILL stop up your toilet! So, in case you don't ever see broccoli on the list of things NOT to flush, you can just add it to the mental list!
This was a real life Monday scenario around Dagerath Academy today. One of my beloved children decided that he would flush his broccoli down the toilet instead of eating it. I know, I know. "You don't have toddlers", I hear you saying. "You have grown children!" Believe me I KNOW! I couldn't figure out why on earth the toilet wouldn't flush. I tried the plunger...several different ones in fact, but couldn't get it moving.
Michael got home and after dinner took a look at it. Asked all boys if they knew why the toilet wouldn't flush. No one knew. After getting various unnamed (b/c I don't even know what they are called!) plumbing tools out and using them, guess what floated up to the surface....yep. Bright.green.broccoli! Michael came into the other room and asked me what the boys had eaten for lunch. I started the list....green smoothie, cauliflower, pizza, broccoli...he stopped me right there and asked me to come into the bathroom where I saw the offending superfood doing no one any good floating in the toilet! We called in the only person (besides me) who had chosen broccoli as the veggie of choice at lunch and as we were walking in he said "Ok , I admit it, I flushed my broccoli". It had really not occurred to him that the broccoli would stop up the toilet. Oh boy. There are just some moments that you wish the parental instruction manual would pop out of the sky! Well, we did what we thought was best made him eat the broccoli out of the toilet.
No, I'm kidding! That's gross folks! But he DID get to clean all of the potties in the house before he went to bed and got some personal instruction on the consequences of deception...and he will be right by my side tomorrow and for the forseeable future. But all along, we've prayed for the boys to learn big lessons from small incidents and if growing in truthfulness and humility is learned by a little broccoli,even broccoli from the toilet, then broccoli truly is a SUPERfood!
4 comments:
Holy cow! I can't believe brocolli doesn't flush!! :-) Bet he never thought he would get so busted !! Good for you for tomato staking. I will pray for big lessons from small incidents, too. Glad Michael knew how to fix the potties, too!!
I am SOOOO happy you are back to blogging.
This is so funny. I don't think I've ever heard of broccoli being hidden in a commode. I'm not sure which guy would think of it. All I know is I'm laughing right now.
THAT'S too funny! I guess it just shows that you're never too old to do something that you know you probalby shouldn't! Hahaha
That's real funny.
But that's a BIG lesson.
DON'T FLUSH BROCOLI DOWN THE TOILET.
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