Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Santa, I've got your number



I would like to thank the genius who created the naughty list. They have made my life a little easier while making my 4 year old much more eager to help out. Today Elaine was struggling with listening/cleaning up/helping. My threats of the naughty list were not enough to get her back on track so I had to break out the big guns. I called Santa Claus himself. I told him that she did not need any gifts because she was being bad. She very quickly started trying to make for her bad behavior and when she was done doing everything I needed her to do she first asked if she was off the list and then wanted to know how I knew Santa's phone number. I gave the standard answer, "all mom's know his number" and we went on with our day. I am one of those parents now. I feel like I have joined a new club.

1 comments:

Susan Myhr Fritz said...

That is totally hilarious! I am going to be laughing about this one for a while. Manipulation skills: check!