Cute Kid Note Of The Day: Hurricane Safety Rules For Stuffed Animals [UPDATED]

In today's Cute Kid Note, we learn that no action plan for extreme weather should ever be without instructions for stuffed animals.

Title: "Ashley's Hurricane Rules!"

Author: Ashley

Age: 8

Occasion for writing: Ashley penned this list of guidelines before leaving her family's home in Mandeville, La. (just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans) in the run-up to Hurricane Isaac.

How it hit the web: Her father, Greg, sent this picture to CNN iReport, calling Ashley "a future leader in the making!"

Ashley would get along with... Wyatt, author of "How To Raise Some Cats." Why? Because they have the same organizational acumen, instinct to care for animals (real or stuffed) -- and habit of repeating themselves (e.g. "Rules: Follow these rules").

UPDATE: Ashley's dad sent us a picture of her and Brantley, her brother (see below). Over email, he called his daughter "a true gem" and said he was disappointed by suggestions that he'd made the list himself.

A CNN iReport producer also interviewed Ashley about the list on Thursday. Asked why she'd banned "partys," the little girl explained: "Because they’ll mess up my room and then my mom will get mad at me." Read more of the interview here.

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Comments

[juno]

03:12 PM on 10/29/2012

kids, do not spit into the wind.
do not blow up balloons
hide all the toilet paper

[trisha08]

03:29 PM on 09/26/2012

That is not the handwriting of an 8 yo

[socraticknight]

12:42 AM on 09/05/2012

the kid should have wrote, "don't walk outside with leashes! you are not going to find new pets if the forecast states it will rain cats and dogs." most likely, it will be others' cat or dog outside during or after the storm.

[boB boB boB]

06:54 PM on 09/04/2012

Blessed Be the Children!

[susanherna121377]

03:34 PM on 09/04/2012

Hilarious! We her down in South Louisiana still dealing with the flood waters need a laugh every now and then to take our minds off of the mess!

[bbh907]

12:24 PM on 09/04/2012

Enough with the cute kid note!! This article has been going on for at least a week.What,Huffpost,there's nothing new going on in the world?

[KIVPossum]

11:27 AM on 09/04/2012

I want to be like mommy cracked me up

[Rachel Alicea]

10:22 AM on 09/04/2012

Very cute! I can always use a smile on a Monday (or in this case, a Tuesday disguised as a Monday).

[genegene002]

09:37 AM on 09/04/2012

Maybe those were rulz FOR Ashley During a hurricane! LOL!

[sweetpatriot]

07:01 PM on 08/31/2012

That is not a handwriting of 8 years old.Is this a joke? Cute kids by the way

[fairypixiedust8]

11:53 PM on 08/31/2012

Why is that NOT the handwriting of an 8 year old? I have MANY diaries/journals/letters from that age & they all look just like that when I was 8.

[sweetpatriot]

02:17 PM on 09/01/2012

That was grown up doing that.Have you see the handwriting of kids in this age of computer?You cannot compare to those time where everything needed to be written down.Older generation has much better handwriting.How old are you? 

[jenimbird]

08:17 AM on 09/04/2012

Maybe the child is exceptional or maybe she had her dad write it for her with her there dictating what to say. If she dictated it then she did write it.

[sweetpatriot]

02:02 PM on 09/04/2012

You are right about the kid saying that while her dad writing it.

[Seeker1014]

05:13 PM on 08/31/2012

How sweet this is. Both her and her brother look adorable in that pic. So glad they left their home before the worst of the weather got to them. We got the last of Isaac yesterday and was glad a tree didn't end up on my roof. I didn't have stuffed animals to think about but some of my plants didn't weather the weather too good. Thanks Isaac.

[bbh907]

05:09 PM on 08/31/2012

Enough with the cute kid note! It's been on for 3 days now.People affected by Isaac have a lot more to deal with than a pile of stuffed animals.You'd think her father would have had other things to do while getting ready to evacuate than taking a picture and making sure it ended up on CNN,but I guess we all have our priorities.

[jenimbird]

08:14 AM on 09/04/2012

yeah, because it takes so long to take a picture now a days.

[smb04d]

09:52 AM on 08/31/2012

The frog looks a little shifty...keep an out for that one!

[smb04d]

09:53 AM on 08/31/2012

*eye

[kerrywenrich]

09:27 AM on 08/31/2012

nuts as it may be if it helps them survive why not do it

[Bally Hoo]

06:42 AM on 08/31/2012

This does not look like the writing of an 8 year old child.

[aspman07]

03:52 PM on 08/31/2012

So what does it look like?