Here are 5 things that I'd like the Whoa Mumma kiddies to get into their heads this year. Some of them could apply to the husband too.
1. The floor is not a shelf.
I'm referring to the floor in the lounge and dining room and bathrooms. Towels, dirty clothes, clean clothes, cups, plates, cutlery and socks. Oh and Lego. Though I do enjoy the sound of it whooshing up the vacuum cleaner. This also applies to the dining table and kitchen bench.
2. Mothers don't have Go Go Gadget arms.
You want me to help you get dressed? Stand closer. You want help with something else? Come to me. Any wails of 'Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuum' from another room in the house will be ignored from now on.
3. The toilet has a 'flush' function.
Use it. That brush thing next to toilet? Learn how to use that too.
4. I don't know where your shoes are.
They're where YOU left them.
5. What I say the first time is what I'm going to say every other time you ask me the same question.
Pester Power won't work in this house. I'm not one of those new age nice mums that has time to think of other ways to say no. No means NO. End of story.
Oh and learn to entertain yourselves. Ipods, play stations, you tube. Technology has made you kids soft. I keep catching myself saying things like 'Back in my day we'd...' and 'When I was your age I'd...'
You kids are making me sound like a parent. Quit it.
Just like in this This Is 40 no more wifi scene...spend more time outside. Go and build a fort or play with sticks or something.
Oh and learn to entertain yourselves. Ipods, play stations, you tube. Technology has made you kids soft. I keep catching myself saying things like 'Back in my day we'd...' and 'When I was your age I'd...'
You kids are making me sound like a parent. Quit it.
Just like in this This Is 40 no more wifi scene...spend more time outside. Go and build a fort or play with sticks or something.
4 comments:
Amen to all of the above!
#1 > sweep everything into a huge pile and fence it off with the playpen. when someone asks where something is, direct them to the search pile. Tell them if anything there is not claimed by trash day, it all goes out for the truck.
My older daughter used to tell her kids "if that (insert object) is still there by dinner time it is going in the bin". And she kept her word. She's a tougher mum than I was.
Gah! Yes, yes, yes! After you teach your kids these things, can you come school mine? And I really want to see this movie too--I've heard great things about it!
Meredith
www.themomoftheyear.net
'Go and play with sticks or something' ... Yep, works for me - kids SHOULD play with sticks more often.
Alex, you never fail to make me smile :) x
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