The+Secret+Knowledge+of+Grown-Ups

The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Students Version  We read the book, __The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups__ by David Wisniewski. We had a fun time reading about all the things that grown-ups tell kids not to do and the reason they give. This story also gives the //true reasons// why adults say what they say. Below are our versions.

__Grown-up rule #39__ Don’t rough – house with your siblings.

__The Official Reason__ Someone could get hurt.

__The Truth:__ The house could rough – house with you! ALL houses are hard to wake up but, the easiest one is the Tumblers. The Tumblers are a family of eight. There house is so easy to wake up that every time they try to even touch each other their house wakes up. The Tumblers are one of the weirdest families ever! One night when all the Tumblers were asleep the smallest one, Tina Tumbler, went to go put whip cream on her brother Tanner Tumbler’s face. Just as she was about to she tripped and fell on Tanner. Yup! You guessed it, she woke up the house. The house started to toss, turn, and tumble and it woke up everyone. So there you go! Now you know you should NEVER rough – house with your siblings and if you do well… Good Luck! by: Brittany

__ THE HONEST TRUTH FOR RULE #36 __

__Rule:__ Don’t jump on the trampoline to hard.

__Official Reason:__ You might get hurt.

The truth: Most children get trampolines. So they can do flips and jumps. But one day a kid feels really bored so bored they want to go jump on their trampoline .Chances are the trampoline will get mad at you! From your weight which is 60 pounds, the trampoline will jump __on you!__ They might even fling you of the trampoline! If that ever happens you will be hurt really bad! Trampolines have been jumping on children for 10 years .These are some reasons why parents tell you don’t jump on the trampoline too hard! by Michaela

__The Grown Up Rule__

** Grown Up Rule #22: Don’t feed you dog chocolate. **

** The Official Reason: It might get sick. **

** The Truth: The Truth is you might get sick, because a long, long time ago when you fed your dog chocolate, you would eat a piece of chocolate too. You normally ate a piece almost everyday, so eventually you got sick also. Now you know the real reason to not give your dog chocolate. **

** By: Maddie **

__ The Truth of a Grown Up Rules __ __ Grown Up Rule # 57: __ Don’t beg for expensive shoes. __Official Reason:__ The shoes are so expensive and way over your price limit. __The Truth:__ Your parents are actually jealous. They are because, when they were younger their parents didn’t let them get the expensive shoes. Your grandparents’ parents didn’t because their parent’s didn’t. They didn’t because… The shoes are jealous because no body bought them. When people tried them on the shoes ate the toes of people who tried them on. So never beg for Nike Shox and/ or Nike Air Maxes. By: Jacqueline

__ Grown-up rule #34 __ Don’t rough house

__ Official reason: __ You will get hurt.

Yes you may get hurt, but the truth is if you rough house the house will wrestle you. Lots of kids have tried to beat the house and lost. You wouldn’t want that .So be careful. Also, everything will come alive and beat you up. These are things that will happen for grown up rule #34. By: Rasha

//__ Grown Up Rule __////__ # 87: __//

// Don’t watch too much TV. //

//__ Official Reason: __//

// Its bad for your eyes & you should go play outside. //

//__ The Truth: __//

// Yes it is true that it’s bad for your eyes. But the real reason is that if you watch too much TV, the TV will start watching you. Before long the TV will have already grown legs and, will follow you around the house. It will listen to all your conversations and, try to find out all of your secrets. Then it will capture you. And use all of your secrets to break you down. The next thing that it will do is dress you up in a pink and purple Toto. Make you perform ballet in front of the entire neighborhood while filming you and broadcasting the video live on fox two news. Those are some reasons that I’m sure have made you change your mind about watching too much TV. //

//__ By __// // Noah Hannibal //

Rule #10: Don’t play video games.

Official Reason: It is better to play outside.

The Truth: They are jealous because they don’t even know how to hold the controller. Also they didn’t have as cool stuff as we do. When they were young their mom and dad didn’t let them play video games. Their mom and dad told them to go outside and practice their sport.

By: Hunter Tabor

__Grown Up Rule__ #30

__Rule__: Don’t sit by the TV.

__Official Reason:__ It can hurt your eyes.

The Truth: Although it can hurt can hurt your eyes but it is 3D when you sit next to the TV. If you are 5 or so it might look a little bit blurry. Then when you are 10 it will look 3D. When your 20 it will look very blurry when you sit next to it. If you’re far away it will look clearer. Parents are jealous of their kids sitting next to the TV because they can’t see it in 3D. By: Lauren Ray

__Grown Up Rule 52#__ Don’t sit too close to the TV.

__Official Reason__ It will hurt your eyes

__The Truth__ It might enable your locked up heat vision inside you. All kids are born with heat vision, but they never realize it. It’s not over yet though, the next thing that happens is that you get the desire to take over the world with your heat vision. This is when things get bad though, after you’re able to use your heat vision you compose even more superpowers. I’m not even going tell you the rest. This is why you shouldn’t sit too close to the TV. By: Sachin Milli

__The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups__

__Grown-Up Rule #66:__ Don’t get muddy. __The Official Reason**:**__ You will leave foot prints of mud in the house. __The truth**:**__ The mud will not only stick to the ground, it will start to grow! It will grow everywhere and it will never ever come off. There is only one person who has ever gotten the mud off. Her name was Melissa Grace Heavens, how did she do it? Scientists say she sat in a big bucket of raw eggs, and then she covered everything in it. Don’t be surprised if you go home tonight and your house is covered in mud.

By**:** Riley

**__Grown Up Rules__**

**__ Grown-up rule #127 __** Don’t rough house.

**__ Official reason: __** You could get hurt.

**__ The truth: __** If you rough house then the house will turn rough. The house will be meaner than you would think. They will make sure you can’t see them. Parents won't believe you so you could be sad. You’ll be so mad at them for a long time. You’ll be lonely for 5 whole years. By: Cassandra Baker

__ Grown up rule #18 __

DON’T KEEP YOUR ROOM MESSY!

__ The official reason __

It’s nasty and dirty and messy. You could fall and trip over something and get hurt.

__ The truth __

When you are at school your toys come to life then they come up with a plan to hurt you because when you trip over your toys you don’t only hurt your self you hurt your toys! So don’t keep your room messy! Illustrated by:Teah Endecott

__ Grown up Rule#24: __ Don’t waste food

__ Official reason: __ Wastes money

__ The Truth: __ While at night when every body is asleep in the trash Can it become a big monster it is eating all the rest of the trash and getting bigger and bigger by the second. It’s eventually able to clime out of the trash can and eat the rest of your food in the refrigerator then after it is down with that it is big enough to role the whole entire world. cole

Grown up rule # 50

Go to bed

Official reason:

You will be tired if you stay up too late.

The truth:

Of course not sleeping will make you tired but the real reason is all kids turn into monsters if you stay up too late. You may not believe me, but it’s true if you have stayed up all night or really late you don’t remember though every time it happens you don’t remember and you have fake memories of the last night but really you turned into a monster. Sometimes you feel weak or achy that is because you turned into a monster and back and the transformation hurts. Luckily when you turn 18 this goes away. So go to bed don’t say I didn’t warn you.

D.A

__ Grown up rule # 37 __

Don’t watch too much TV.

__ Official reason: __

You might get sucked into the TV.

__ The Truth: __

All children will get sucked into the TV. You might have brain damage too. The TV will come alive and eat you. Also the characters will come out of No where and chase you around the house.

By: Drew Meier

__ Grown up rule 911  __ Don’t watch too much TV   __  Official reason  __ You will hurt your eyes __ The truth:  __ The TV will watch you. It will watch you Intel you die. A way to stop it is by ignoring the TV and it will go away. But if you have a flat screen TV then it will not work.