i actually kicked my kids out of the house this morning. "GO, GO TO SCHOOL! DON'T TALK TO EACH OTHER...JUST WALK.....DON'T LEAVE YOUR BROTHER!....STOP CRYING ABOUT THE LEGO MAN! IT'S CRUNCH'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRY AND WHINE ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE'S PRESENT....GO WALK GO...OK, ONE MORE HUG...OH HOW SWEET....GO!"
i think there is a good chance that i am going insane. mornings are frustrating, loud, no one minds me. it's like the kids are little remote control toys that have a "short" in them so i keep having to "jiggle the handle" to get them to move!
i feel like a mad woman and i feel so mean and yet "Butter" still wants a hug and a kiss! has he looked at what he is kissing. a mad woman with morning breath and a BLACK BELT IN CRAZY!
when they come home i will hug and ask them how their day was and hope that they will forget about Attila the Hun(sp?) from this morning.
Liz - I went through this, too, until I figured out how to bribe my boys into submission. IT has been WONDERFUL! At the beginning of school, I buy extra and cheap school supplies (like sports pencil packs, sports ball cap erasers, mini crayons, colored pencils, etc). Each morning after the child has eaten breakfast, there is no TV, he gets dressed to his shoes, brushes his teeth, spreads his bed up, hopefully runs a comb through his hair, and picks up PJs, THEN and ONLY THEN can the child come downstairs to request his bribe. After that, he is free to play on the computer, do legos, or whatever until I holler that it's time to go to school. For whatever reason, my kids LIVE for school supply bribes. Kinda' geeky, but it works!
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