The other night I jokingly posted to Twitter that I was curious if the girls would ever notice if I moved all the clocks in our house 15 minutes ahead and alluded to the Dr. Evil pink to lips pose.
I was cranky.
They were cranked up.
I may or may not have been under the influence of raging once a month hormones. Ahem.
When Miss C was little and could not yet read I’d sometimes skip over entire sections of a particularly monotonously painful to read bedtime book. (Think Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss.)
I may or may not have told the girls a certain kids’ show just disappeared from our DVR.
Just wondering if you ever have these Dr. Evil parenting moments.
I can’t be the only one.
Oh yeah. I totally do stuff like that. I’ve started putting the kids to bed earlier to get ready for Kindergarten next month (and to help my sanity) and Baby Girl said, “but Mom, look outside. There is just so much light.” I told her it wasn’t my fault that God hadn’t turned the lights off yet.
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Oh yeah, guilty here – many times. Amazing how we used to ‘loose’ those long books they want to hear. Those annoyingly load firetruck used to always dissapear too. Many times loud toys found their way to grandma’s house and never came back.
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I have threatened to suck up a wild toddler in the vacuum cleaner, which the toddler feared, and which resulted in an immediate leap to the sofa and sitting still for a bit until the “danger” had passed.
This has worked on all three of my kids.
Oh yeah! I can “skim” a book pretty quick at bed time! 🙂 For now he doesn’t notice. I think we will start the early bedtimes again next week since school starts Aug 4!
My first time over. Love your blog! And, I have to thank you for giving me the title to my own blog-post this week, about making good foods evil!
As far as parenting goes…well, we are probably considered evil by our teenagers. We like to call our form of parenting, “Shock and Awe parenting-style”. It may not always get a big round of applause from our kids, but the adult daughter we’ve raised up so far is finally singing our praises.
I’m curious, where do you live in Tennessee? Our family is taking a trip in a few months and I’m curious about why you have to take your adorable kindergartner into Kentucky for school?
I look forward to coming back for a visit!
I used to tell kids I baby sat that movies I didn’t want to watch were broken.
I’ve shoved a book under the nightstand so I wouldn’t have to read it to Hudson for the 4,000th time.
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Oh lol. I can’t get over this post. haha. We all had our share of evil parenting of course, or at least I did. I once told Beatrice to go to bed because her show won’t be on that day. Lied to her that the TV people are on a holiday just so I could watch TMZ. lol
I may have told my son that Walmart was out of batteries for a certain nosy toy.
Oh, yeah. We skipped HUGE sections of Berenstain Bear books. Sometimes, they are WAY too preachy for me at the end of a long day.
I often let the air out of balloons, too. That always makes me feel a little guilty.
I always tell the kids they had better pick their toys up before I vacuum. It has a mind of its own and it eats what it wants. I can’t control what it sucks up. 🙂
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i used to skip over entire lines and only read a couple of sentences per page.
they all read on their own now…thankfully. i couldn’t get away with that anymore.
certain videos disappeared for extended periods of time…cinderella and power rangers back in the day…
now?
they are too old.
they pull stunts on me now.
sigh.
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Yeah, too many Dr. Evil moments to mention, and I’m sure with the Baby, they’ll be many, many more to come. The clock thing is the norm around here for my sake more than anyone else’s.
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LOL! I can’t get away with skipping pages anymore when I read to Becca partly because she’s got most of the books memorized now and partly because there’s usually a big sister looking on and they can read now. 😉
I have my own Dr. Evil moments though – mainly when I go through their rooms and throw away a bunch of stuff that I think is trash but they don’t think is trash. If they do ever (rarely) come and ask me later on where something went, I can honestly tell them that I have no idea where such-and-such is right now.
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Oooh, I totally skip over sections in the book at bedtime too just so we can “try” to speed up the process. So glad I am not the only one — okay so there’s one more “Mommy Guilt” thing I can erase off my list. Hee hee
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Yup, skipping sections in books was a practice we got into, but now my eldest has started reading, she’s beginning to spot it! I think we’ll have to move the clocks forward too from now on! 😉
On the plus side, my eldest is almost able to start reading bedtime stories to her sister, so maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel…!
When i was a child my parents used to do the same for me.I am little wise that all.Because i used to change the clock slow before my parents do.
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