If at some point in your life your diabolical children are sitting quietly, playing together like little angels, while educational television hums soothingly in the background, you may think, "Hey! I bet I could sit down for a minute and check my email for the first time today and maybe just let my high red alert simmer to a pleasant yellow."
When this happens, don't do it. Just. Don't.
Because as soon as your back is turned someone (Thing 1, I'm looking at you...) is going to find the one colored pencil you missed when you grabbed them from Thing 2's grasp earlier before she could shove them down her throat. (It will be the red one. It's always the red one.)
Then they will systematically cover as many square inches of your parent's new plasma flat screen TV with intricate scribbles and designs. Even if it means scaling the wall of toy pianos, lego wagons, small stools, and rocking horses you have carefully constructed around it.
Yeah, it's not worth those five minutes of semi-relaxation that you desperately needed. The time-out and scolding are going to be at least 15 minutes total. The cleanup from Thing 2 dumping the last dredges of your coffee cup all over the table while you were disciplining her sister will cost you another 10. Not to mention the frantic wiping off of the TV before your mom sees it so that you can at least pretend to be a good parent.
Don't get lulled into a false sense of security.
Be vigilant.
Be ready.
When this happens, don't do it. Just. Don't.
Because as soon as your back is turned someone (Thing 1, I'm looking at you...) is going to find the one colored pencil you missed when you grabbed them from Thing 2's grasp earlier before she could shove them down her throat. (It will be the red one. It's always the red one.)
Then they will systematically cover as many square inches of your parent's new plasma flat screen TV with intricate scribbles and designs. Even if it means scaling the wall of toy pianos, lego wagons, small stools, and rocking horses you have carefully constructed around it.
Yeah, it's not worth those five minutes of semi-relaxation that you desperately needed. The time-out and scolding are going to be at least 15 minutes total. The cleanup from Thing 2 dumping the last dredges of your coffee cup all over the table while you were disciplining her sister will cost you another 10. Not to mention the frantic wiping off of the TV before your mom sees it so that you can at least pretend to be a good parent.
Don't get lulled into a false sense of security.
They are waiting for you to show weakness.
Don't let your guard down.Be vigilant.
Be ready.
1 comment:
Oh, gosh how this brings back memories of when Ciara and Cruz were little and so close in age (thank God I am old and we had no such thing as plasma TV's) Hang in there amazing Mom, things will get easier (until they hit the teens). <3
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