Comments on: Monday Morning, My Bad.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:39:31 +0000

Nothing I could teach you about how to handle kids. Bravo!

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:28:32 +0000

Something to keep in mind for future reference…we have found that “escalating disciplinary immulation,” or EDI, can be a very effective response to child misbehavior. The basic concept is quite simple: If the child is grumpy the parent is grumpier…the child has a temper tantrum, the parent throws one more spectacular…the child throws a spoon, the parent tips over the table while roaring like a bear…and so on. Well, let me tell you, at least 75% of the time those little buggers go running right to their rooms, often staying there unseen for several days before being coaxed out to do their chores. Just for kicks…now and again…as they loosen the deadbolts and remove the furniture from in front of their bedroom doors we let out a little growl that sends them diving back under their beds…it’s just so cute.

By: wirepeach, (Or Under Cover ProblemChildBride

wirepeach, (Or Under Cover ProblemChildBride — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:17:38 +0000

Doc McC, you’re right of course. Competence is something I lack with both children and power-tools. I’ve completely lost the instructions that came with the girls.

Clare, direct eye contact and vague threats of disinheritance is the way to handle a troublesome 4-year old. You mark my words. I will be most pleased to give you free advice when you have nippers of your own. First off, don’t believe that “babies need to be fed every day nonsense.” You stick with me gal and your wee-uns’ll grow up right proper-like, you’ll see.

Mom101, sometimes my faucets are sooo sparkly that they go all the way out the other side of sparkly and actually appear not to be gleaming prettily at all.

fmc, that’s what I keep telling the lady from Social Services. Do they listen? No! It’s” three-years incarceration” this and “no visiting rights” that. Show me a Black’n'Decker power-drill and a pre-school birthday party and I’ll show you some happy children!

Randall, commandments? Wouldn’t get away with that in Ojai. The most you can do here is “suggest” that your children put away their toys and offer an alternative to Sibling 2’s arm, for Sibling 1 to chew off in a devillishsmall-person frenzy.

By: R. Sherman

R. Sherman — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:15:25 +0000

I always remind my brood of the commandment, “Honor thy father and mother, that thy days will be long . . .” The converse is also true: Misbehave and die!

Cheers.

By: fatmammycat

fatmammycat — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:56:07 +0000

You are a gifted mammy to be sure, what lucky little sprocketts your babies are.

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:52:47 +0000

Sparkly faucets do cure all ills, don’t they?

By: Claire Phipps

Claire Phipps — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:49:30 +0000

Wow…that’s some talk you must have given there…Any chance of a copy of the speech for future reference for when I start breeding?

By: Dr Joseph McCrumble

Dr Joseph McCrumble — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:47:43 +0000

I’m guessing here, but the mistake you might have made was leaving the covers on the business end of the chainsaws. My kids woul never let me get away with a cock-up like that.