Accept drinks only from other girls. If a boy peels a fruit for you, do not accept it. When boys come and sit beside you, don't answer their questions...and do not smile at them. When boys happen to come into your bedroom, hide behind the bed and hit them in the face.As to the obvious logistical problem that poses--with a projectile, maybe?
--letter from a sixteenth-century German mother, quoted in Ancestors
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Time-tested parental advice to daughters
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Suspect! What should one do with boys bearing unpeeled fruit? Or those that stand silently by and frown? Our Germanic ancestors provide us wisdom not...
In your case, you hit them with NATURE'S METROPOLIS.
Or hit them in the face when they find you hiding behind the bed?
Or hit them in the face later, when you see them in some other context? They'll figure out why.
Maybe you could use the unpeeled fruit that they abandoned when you wouldn't accept it, or them. Clearly if the fruit had been peeled, by the time you went to bed it would be entirely too messy to keep it as a protectile.
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