you barely touched the broccoli on your dinner plate
well, alright just one bite and you can stay up late
don´t tease the baby; you´ll make him cry
because i´m the mother, that´s why

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don´t fight
i´ve got eyes in the back of my head.
these are things my mother´s mother´s
mother´s mother said
i learned the language when i was very young
lately i´ve been talking in
the mother tongue

take off your muddy shoes put the cat down
here´s a tissue; blow your nosep ut the cat down
what did you say? where´d you learn that?
come back here when i´m talking
let go of that cat.

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behave at your grandma´s
be good when i leave
wipe your nose again-- no, not your sleeve
what´s on your cheek? let me get it
don´t have a fit
it´s just a little mommy spit