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If you don't start to behave, I'm going to give you soup!
How on earth did that threat work?
Over the weekend, we had an impromptu get together for some beers are my place. One of the guys his wife is in Spain and another brought his wife, who mostly talked with mine.
After a bit, we invited another guy 2 doors down. His wife was working night-shift (Trauma Nurse), so he ended up taking his daughter (5 yrs old) as well.
The daughter is maybe bi-polar, or something. She is terribly shy. But then like flipping a light switch, is not longer shy, bouncing off the walls, etc. When she reached the stage of jumping from one sofa to the next, and hitting my wife in the face with pillows, my wife had enough.
"If you don't start to behave, I'm going to give you soup!"
How on earth did that threat work?
Does her grandmother make really bad soup? Why did my wife even come up with saying that?
But it worked.
Anyone else with an unusual and successful way of controlling the kids?
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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