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So you're having a bad day. You're dog peed on your bed, your mom burnt your pop-tarts, and you tripped over a chair...at your graduation ceremony. Want to know what we hear? Average, average, average.

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00:02

If you think your family is embarrassing Think again And

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the terrible horrible no good very bad day Pichi help

00:14

lee We sneak Alexander and the terrible horrible No good

00:22

very bad video day our last month Oh okay You

00:27

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

00:31

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

00:35

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

00:39

me just give you the full rundown to work up

00:42

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

00:46

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

00:49

i said for starters my sticky disgusting hairdo was the

00:53

best part of my day I tried getting out of

00:56

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

01:01

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

01:03

needs is more ammunition Then at breakfast both my brothers

01:08

anson and nick found these awesome amazing prizes in their

01:12

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

01:17

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

01:20

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

01:24

any better after i got to school Mrs dickens was

01:27

all up in my business Her first She tells me

01:30

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

01:33

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

01:44

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

01:51

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

01:55

within my rights After school i had a dentist appointment

01:59

which pretty much sticks of camp right there And of

02:02

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

02:05

had an elevator door closed my foot And then one

02:08

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

02:30

got to take a bath that was basically all of

02:32

my worst nightmares come true I bit my tongue and

02:35

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

02:37

same spot for a week and one final act of

02:41

betrayal to round Things out A cat decides to sleep

02:43

Was anthony who was literally a butt face So yeah

02:49

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

03:04

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

03:39

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

03:44

is such a downer why do you people love it

03:46

so much Is it just that misery loves company Well

03:49

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

03:53

emotionally invested in the story while grown ups get to

03:55

feel good about what their kids are learning And while

03:58

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

04:01

a better mood than he is meaning they think about

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how he could solve his problems see how his reactions

04:06

or maybe a little over the top and come up

04:09

with ways for him to cope with all the crappy

04:10

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

04:16

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

04:18

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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