Sitting in the living room, Christine Ripperger looks up from her book and says, ‘I’m not talking to you until you wear underwear!’ It might sound like a strange comment – that is, unless, as Christine herself says, you have children. Because Christine is actually addressing her three-year-old son, Micah.
In fact, with Micah and his four brothers all under 11, Christine and her husband Nathan have found themselves saying so many funny comments that they’ve turned them into a book!
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Christine, a teacher, and Nathan first became parents in March 2005 when Noah was born, followed by Owen in July 2007 and then Micah two years after that. ‘As the boys began to walk and talk, we weren’t just saying, ‘No,’ or, ‘Stop it’. Our instructions were…
