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If you think your family is embarrassing Think again And

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the terrible horrible no good very bad day Pichi help

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lee We sneak Alexander and the terrible horrible No good

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very bad video day our last month Oh okay You

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said you had a bad day That's q I would

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trade my day if anybody's bad day Seriously that guy

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who wakes up a little call me we'll talk Let

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me just give you the full rundown to work up

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an appropriate amount For starters i look up and there's

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gum in my hair Okay doesn't sound too bad but

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i said for starters my sticky disgusting hairdo was the

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best part of my day I tried getting out of

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bed but my skateboard sit in there and i tried

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on my mother's always telling me to put that thing

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away So please don't tell her about it All she

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needs is more ammunition Then at breakfast both my brothers

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anson and nick found these awesome amazing prizes in their

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cereal Me Oh no just cereal I'd better never run

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into tony the tiger dark alley late at night I'll

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just say that Okay that was my morning Didn't get

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any better after i got to school Mrs dickens was

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all up in my business Her first She tells me

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she doesn't like my drawing of invisible castle looks like

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somebody needs to work on their imagination And then she

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got on my case about not saying sixteen I'm counting

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Not that she cares but i have a few personal

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issues with that number but i'd rather not talk about

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it In short if the hotel can leave off thirteen

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slower biggs of some silly superstition I certainly think i'm

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within my rights After school i had a dentist appointment

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which pretty much sticks of camp right there And of

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course i have a cavity So that's fun I also

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had an elevator door closed my foot And then one

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of my stupid brother's got me in trouble for it

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in my other stupid brother Which is in a word

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stupid So what's for dinner meets a cheeseburgers maybe Uh

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no Try lima beans This is abuse right there Number

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i can call my wonderful day still wasn't over I

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got to take a bath that was basically all of

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my worst nightmares come true I bit my tongue and

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i can guarantee you i'm going to be biting that

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same spot for a week and one final act of

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betrayal to round Things out A cat decides to sleep

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Was anthony who was literally a butt face So yeah

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i told my mom i want to move to australia

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She says people down under have bad days too cool

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looking no more vegemite I guess i never really thought

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about it that way before Yeah my day was terrible

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Horrible No good very bad But it's not like i've

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cornered the market on bad days all over the world

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Kids are getting gum stuck in their hair and eye

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closing their feet in elevator doors Not that that's going

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to stop me from complaining obviously And that's how the

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book ends It leaves alexander and you know the reader

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without a resolution No happy ending No Tomorrow will be

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better Not even And it could be worse than nothing

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but that's Kind of the point The author judith the

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orthe knows what she's doing She wants the readers children

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and adults to realize that hey everyone has bad days

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that's just life no one has it in for you

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unless you've upset the wrong people So if the book

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is such a downer why do you people love it

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so much Is it just that misery loves company Well

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no To be honest misery doesn't love anything Kids get

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emotionally invested in the story while grown ups get to

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feel good about what their kids are learning And while

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kids were reading about alexander's bad day there presumably in

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a better mood than he is meaning they think about

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how he could solve his problems see how his reactions

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or maybe a little over the top and come up

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with ways for him to cope with all the crappy

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stuff That's happened to us As it turns out learning

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these strategies for dealing with terrible horrible no good very

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bad days pays off In the long run we're talking

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better grades in school better jobs And while just general

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happiness That's right Building character is actually nothing Oh great

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just what i needed to make my day even worse 00:04:30.728 --> [endTime] a lecture Colicky

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