Ross Post-Yuletide Household Rule #323:

No bowl shall go unbroken; no couch or Ottoman or wall shall go uncrayoned; no stocking shall avoid being dragged through the sooty gray ashes of a long dead winter's fire; no juice shall stay in the cup, but rather it must be thrust in the face of a nagging sibling; no moment shall go by without a three-part harmony of wailing and screaming (infant cry, pre-schooler cry, Kindergartener cry)...And absolutely NO PARENT shall escape w/ their sanity intact!