"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
--Harry S. Truman

Friday, September 24, 2010

the New Cure All

On Fridays I try to catch up on laundry and cleaning so that I can enjoy the rest of the weekend and so that I don't have anything distracting my thoughts when I'm working on my graduate work.

In order for me to be productive, I have to have cooperation from the two little Cables in the household. But, they are usually more tired on Fridays than any other day because of the busy school week.

Today, I found a new approach to tackle tantrums: As it started to get really hairy in a can't-turn-this-ship-around way, we took a time out to rock out to some Aerosmith... with ballerina skirts on. What a mighty 15-minute distraction.

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