What are your rules for VF?Heres mine.

1.Nursing mothers dont enjoy the patio


2.Husbands do the housework when mothers are nursing.


3.Pinball is for CHILDREN ONLY lol


Thata all I can think of now so enjoy!

My rules in VF are:

1. Nobody under 10 watch TV
2. Nobody under 12 play video games
3. Nobody under 13 browse the internet
4. If you are caught breaking a rule you get the big, RED GLOVE
5. You are never too old to have kids
6. Kids MUST leave to college at age 18 or will sleep outside on the hammock rain or shine
7. No lying
8. No tickling
9. Parents MUST live to at least 45 before death
10. Snack times: 12:00-12:10 PM, 4:00-4:10 PM, 7:00-7:10PM
11. Bathroom times: 12pm, 5pm, 8pm, 10am, 8am, 6am
12. Looking for bugs is unacceptable LOL
13. No playing with pets
14. Fun is highly allowed
15. 3 naps a week!
16. Nursing mothers will be left alone, no annoying kids or snoring husbands
17. You make a mess? CLEAN IT UP
18. If you turned it on, turn it off after use
19. Flush the toilet
20. Leave the fish alone
21. Hammock and fun off limits for nursing mothers
22. Snoring is NOT allowed
23. If you are sad or mad, build a bridge and get over it
24. Foul language? Ima kick that lil' butt of yours
25. 2,3 and 4 year olds take 2 naps a day

That's all I can think of right now!

If both parents have office careers, NO ONE is allowed to use the computer except for selling collectables. (They sit on someones lap if they're selling.)

I'm fairly lax, but my main rules are:
1. NO banging of dishes;
2. NO drawing on walls;
3. NO bothering the fish;
4. nursing mothers can expect to be asked to pick up more collectibles while hubby is busy earning a crust on his own;
5. the Guiding Hand is always right.

That sums it up for me with one addition...

6. If you didn't get a DVD from me, there will be no TV for any age. Work on your career, work out, or go play outside, but no couch potatoes!

1)When you're exhausted, you better be taking a nap, not watching tv or drying feet or washing hair
2)NO banging dishes, it's annoying as heck
3)Stay out of the office unless you're working on career
4)When you're working 'uh-huh' is not an option, I will continue to pick you up until you make money and advance your career

one more if your taking a nap i put you in ur bed

no accidents in the bed so i need NO dirt smuges in childrens room or bed same with husband!

That's pretty much me too, except I don't care what they do to the fish. I'm not really strict about the tv for kids when it's raining. But if it's not, I like to turn it off on them (muhahaha) then toss them in the pool for a bit of fun exercise. And for some reason I can't stand it when they just listen to the radio. I love to see them dance! Lately I've taken to handing out nasty candy for squeezing pimples, just because I need to give out more pieces of it. hehe Anyone caught heading to the fridge for snacks is picked up and dropped onto the treadmill or into the pool too.
I totally agree about the "No" or the "Uh-Uh" and shaking that head at me with a puff of smoke when I said to work! Pffftt!! They will be dropped right back at it until they make those coins jingle! "Try and fail" means "keep trying until you get it" in my lil virtual world!

As I'm about to post this, I'm being reminded that I have a whole list of behaviors that I call "cute but useless." I do pick them up and put them on something useful when I see them doing something like "Studying a recipe," "Looking for laundry," "Dealing with all the socks," "Fixing the computers," "Calling the birds," etc. etc. etc.

I have rules for myself, but not for my peeps. They can do what they please, unless I'm trying to make them do something specific at the moment (like training them in their career).

Rules for myself vary by family. It might be something like "First-born always inherits house" or "Children named after ancestors" or "Stay poor!" or something like that. Basically a rule like this would govern what the family tree would look like or what the family's "theme" would be.

In some families I'll do an experiment like making everybody lazy or something.

Recently I've started giving peeps a defining characteristic or hobby. For example, a child might be encouraged to be wild and destructive, while siblings are encouraged to be studious and quiet.

But generally I just let them do whatever, even if they choose to use this freedom to draw all over the walls.

My strongest rule is no TV. For anyone. I can't control what they watch, so it is better to skip it.(I never watch TV myself.) They always get the red glove for it, but it is a hard behaviour to extinguish. I have one paterfamilias whom I raised and whose description says that he hates TV who now tries it from time to time. (He is in his 40's).
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For most other behaviours I wish to discourage, I use redirection, unless they persist. Then I will use the red glove. I dislike poking plants, bothering fish, playing in the dirt,squeezing pimples, drawing on the wall (why doesn't the game have a sketch pad or easel and paint as an alternative?),digging their way to China, and video games. Video games again coz how do I know what kind of game?
-----------------------------------------------------------------I am not too fond of them dring and warming when neither cold nor wet. I dislike the pout when I accidentally overpraise a behaviour. For children, most misbehavoir lands them at the study desk. I am the kind of person who buys encyclopedias before the child is born, sometimes before conception, as one never knows when they will become available. When they turn 14 I expect increased study and doing their share opf housework. Some do it naturally, and some just won't. Ditto for extra housework when a nursing mother and collectable grabbing if insufficient awake children not engaged in a task I deem important or happen to like. I have had real batles with kids and nursing mothers who won't work. They wind up laundering, watering plants, even in the rain, and so on til they are ready to drop. If they work willingly, they get treats, more leisure time, etc. Even the little kids take out the trash, clean up floor smudges, water the flowers, study, do dishes,weed etc.
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Behaviours I encourage are study, work on career, feeding birds and fish, calling birds, talking to the plants, listening to the sounds of nhature, playing mommy or daddy, playing in the workshop, playing in the office or kitchen depends on parents' careers and whether they are asleep or nursing, etc., drinking, exercise, personal hygeine behavoiurs. I just enjoy the sound of the bird calls. My mother used to be able to do different bird whistles and songs before she passed. Some I encourage sparsely or just let them be. I slightly encourage looking for bugs as it puts them nearby for collecting. Also feeding fish as they can overdo that one to the point that real fish would expire. I am mostly indifferent to playing in the sand, with the toys or browsing the web, but interrupt these more readily for collecting than behaviours that I favor. The radio tends to clash with the background music, but I love it when they dance.
I also encourage reading as long as they don't leave their jobs to do it. I expect them to finish a work unit: earn $ before a break. More work when they are starting out or in a financial pinch. Unless they read exhausted, I do not let them quit in the middle of a work cycle. When exhausted, I put them to bed, unless they have started work elated and keep leaving before finishing over and over til exhausted. Tired people go to bed. Elated kids can nap in a chair and are conveniently located for collecting. I know the ones sprawled around the living rm are fake nappers and thus up for grabs.