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Being the child to Lebanese parents is a collective experience. For its very niche audience, we compiled a list of things you definitely had to do if your parents were Lebanese.<\/p>\n

1. Hide the fact that you already ate when your mom spent the entire day making mloukhiye<\/b><\/p>\n

2. Expertly reply to the waynak\/ik<\/i> text at it\u2019s 11pm and you were supposed to be home 4 hours ago<\/p>\n

3. Take a jacket with you everywhere, no matter the season<\/b><\/p>\n

4. Get lectured about smoking while one (or both) of your parents was smoking<\/p>\n

5. Forget everything you know about modern medicine because yansoun<\/i> can cure any rare disease<\/b><\/p>\n

6. Walk on mopped floors like it\u2019s full of landmines<\/p>\n

7. Apply Fucidin on everything because it is definitely an all-purpose drug<\/b><\/p>\n

8. Wake up early on days off to visit teta and jeddo during eid<\/p>\n

9. Call your relatives to say thank you because they gifted you something (even if you never received it)<\/b><\/p>\n

10. Say no to dyafe at least 5 times before reluctantly accepting<\/p>\n

11. Lie in bed all day ONLY if your fever exceeds 40-degrees<\/b><\/p>\n

12. Wear socks at home at all times<\/p>\n

13. Forcibly 3ayid all your relatives on the phone when it\u2019s eid because your parents told you to<\/b><\/p>\n

14. Refrain from saying \u201cma khassak\u201d to your dad<\/p>\n

15. Take ekhtak\/khayyak with you whenever you want to go out<\/b><\/p>\n

16. Claim the title of the family\u2019s \u201ctech genius\/future computer engineer\u201d because you just restarted your mom\u2019s phone for it to stop lagging<\/p>\n

17. Let out your road rage when a driver honks at your mom while she\u2019s driving<\/b><\/p>\n

18. Answer the \u201clesh, lawen, ma3 meen, ayya se3a reje3\/rej3a, ba3ref ahlon?\u201d questions before every outing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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