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You see, the 8 o’clock fairies live in the willow tree at our local park. At 8 o’clock every night they peak out from the hollows then fly around with clipboards and pens, checking that all the boys and girls in our neighbourhood are asleep in bed.
If you’re not, the fairies place a cross next to your name (with their glitter pens of course) and the list goes to Santa to help him decide just how many presents you deserve at the end of the year.
Desperate? Yes.
A bit scary for the little people? Potentially.
Effective? Definitely (please feel free to try).
I’ve sometimes worried if my use of the 8 o’clock fairies might be a little on the extreme side. That was until a good friend recently confessed her own imaginative parenting technique when shopping with her children: ‘Santa Cam’.
Yep, that’s right. Big brother, or Santa in this case, is watching your kiddies’ every move from his control room in the North Pole. Just one tantrum captured on the nearest security camera could end Christmas dreams of Dora dolls and Dinosaur Trains. Inspirational! (Can’t believe I haven’t thought of that one before.)
While parenting purists - usually old people who have forgotten what it’s like - would deem these techniques ‘dubious and best avoided’, we are only human and occasionally desperate times call for desperate measures.
So, just to make me feel a bit better about myself, what elaborate techniques do you terrorize, I mean, entertain your children with?
Used to tell them they were keeping their toy tiger/dolly awake and they would be angry with them in the morning.
ReplyDeleteNot much works anymore as they are 8 and 12, so I just hide upstairs and keep shouting down "go to sleep!!!!". Not working either. Wine sounds like a good idea - and turning up the tv.
Another lol funny post :) Nothing to fabulously creative to report here. But will keep the fairies in mind for the bad nights. Mine will be coming at 7.30 thou!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the 8 o'clcok fairies and will so be using them. I've gone from a "go to bed when you are tired" mum to a "7 on the dot" mum. I need those fairies.
ReplyDeleteAs for other tricks...I confess I've told the Darlings that there is a tooth monster who removes the unbrushed teeth out of sleeping children's mouths. How I came up with this one and how the Darlings haven't ended up in therapy yet, I don't know. But they do brush their teeth ever so nicely now.
That pic = pure gold!
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