Cai, I use the smelly finger trick on Matilda now after hearing your brilliant way of dealing with lies. It works a charm!
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Cai, I use the smelly finger trick on Matilda now after hearing your brilliant way of dealing with lies. It works a charm!
We have lots of fairies in our house. Things magically dissapear in the middle of the night (like gifts of Bratz dolls).
I just tell DD that the fairies musnt like them and that she is too pretty and lovely to play with dolls like that.......
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OOO I am so going to use this one :D Excellent
love this thread
Oh I just remembered another thing I once did to my eldest son.
When he was about 7, we were in Big W, and he was being really naughty, taking off and hiding from me so I couldn't find him etc... he really just made my time there terrible.
Anyway, on the way out he was bugging me for the sweets that are near the registers, so while he was being annoying, I whispered to the lady on the check out to have a word to him, and told her what he had been doing. So, after a few seconds, the lady turns to James and says "Excuse me little boy... I have been watching you on the cameras in the store and this is your last chance. If you come in here and be naughty for your mum or anyone else again, I'm sorry to say you won't be allowed back in."
Ever since that day, I have not had one bit of trouble with my kids going into any shop. It was kinda funny though because the lady remembered him and James would behave so well whenever he saw her.
re - the smelly finger - we use the one on our daughter that her tongue turns blue if she's lying. Funny she won't let us see her tongue sometimes!!
I am so loving this thread!!! Comes at a great time as well...I'm going to be needing many of these soon I think. ;)
When Luke was about 3yrs, he used to have a pet axylotle (a mexican walking fish.. perhaps the ugliest thing you've ever seen in your life ;)) - He named him Peter Parker (Spiderman), as he was going through the Spiderman stage at the time.
Anyway, I do not know what DH & I did wrong, but we just couldn't seem to keep him alive :(
We replaced him once, and then when the 2nd one died, I decided that it was maybe time to attempt to explain what was happening...
DH & my brother decided he was still too young, and so my brother picked one up on the way up to our house the morning that Peter Parker #2 had died.
Peter Parker was a white one - the albino ones that you can almost see through... well by brother turned up with a black one with brown speckly spots all over him :cryinglaugh:
When I asked him how he was going to come through with that one, he told me to relax, he'd take care of it!
A few hrs later, when Luke finally realised that Peter Parker didn't look the same anymore, he asked what had happened to him... my brother said 'Gee, don't you know anything? Your Peter Parker is like the real Peter Parker... the real one puts his suit on and changes into Spiderman, your one puts his suit on and changes into someone else as well.... he's Peter Parker you know!'
(Pretty amazing comeback on my brothers part considering he had drunk the better part of a bottle of wine at this stage :D)
Well, Luke went for it, and to this day, I still don't know if he ever figured it out, he's probably forgotten by now :lol:
Peter Parker #3 ended up 'crossing over' as well... and it was at that stage I took it upon myself to tell Luke what really happened ;)
hahahahha NAI.. my dd is only 4 months old and she LOVES dora!!!! She will scream the house down if I take her away to change her nappy or give her a feed LOL
I used to do something similar for my kids, who were convinced there were monsters that came into their room from under their door and hid under their beds. I used to get carpet sprinkles, and add glitter and confetti, and I covered the container in contact, and I would sprinkle the "monster sprinkles" outside their door, and under their beds... I told the kids that when the monsters touched the monster sprinkles, they turned into dust, and we could vacuum them up and they would disappear forever. The kids would even bring the vacuum to me in the mornings and sometimes they would vacuum up the monsters themselves. My DS1 is now 14, and remembers it clearly and thinks it is cool that I used to do that... he wants to be able to put "monster sprinkles" down for Harrison if he ever gets scared of monsters.:
DD went through a stage of being scared of ghosts in her room at night.
She woke up early one morning, 2 am or something because there were "ghosts" in her room.
I'm half a sleep and a bit grumpy at that time of the morning had to think of something fast.
So I said "Look, ghosts don't like the smell of farts, if you fart then they won't come in the house, they will go next door"
SO DD rips out a huge one, where she pulled that from I don't know, and went straight back to sleep.
I went back into bed giggling, DH and I had a good chuckle.
Now if she remembers about ghosts which is rarely she will ask DH to come in and fart in her room because his are better and smellier, keeps the ghosts away all night.
These are great! I'll be checking this thread for when ds is older!
My mum used to pick up the phone and threaten to call the boarding school if we were naughty!! It worked up til I was 12 or so and said "Fine!" No more threats of boarding school!
lol at ll80 - what a crack up!
Ha ha ha, This has been so funny.
We have done a similar thing to Cailin with our nieces and nephews in that you could tell a lie by looking in their ear. It really worked! But it was just a joke to us at the time.
We got Lindsay an absolute pearler a while back. We live on a property for those that may not know, and we have a gate at the end of our drive that is shut if we have sheep out etc. So this day the gate was shut and we had to go out for the day and Lindsay volunteered to open the gate when we got to it, so we stop, he gets out and opens the gate and then just as he closes it, DH starts to drive off, leaving Lindsay behind. Poor kid didn't know what to do. Probably a bit cruel actually, but both DH and I had parents that did that to us when we were kids LOL.
I've also done the usual too with not being able to open lids/bottles etc and faking that there is any chocolate left in the house when they find the wrappers.
LOL sooo funny...must ask Mum what things she would tell us.
Charlie is still a little young, but this I thought was great.
Whenever DS or DD does something they shouldn't tell them "if you don't stop that Santa will take away a present & give you a potato instead!!" each time they muck up "that's another potato".....then at Christmas when all excited to see all of their presents & a couple potato's they will wonder what they missed out on (nothing naturally), but next time you tell them "that's a potato" they will think twice.
hehe got to use the smell a lie thing sooner then I thought and it worked
This thread has great chuckle value..
We've been giving DD teething relief before bed the last week or so and the other night DS wanted "medicine" too and when we said no he chucked a massive tanty so DP went out to the kitchen and put in a medicine cup a couple of drops of cordial in water & DS bought it.
Definately a Wall of Shame though is when DP was a kid his Dad would tell him that if he didn't toughen up he'd have to have spoonfuls of cement for breakfast
My DD is a bit young but I heard a hillarious one the other day; I was out for a walk and I saw this woman pushing a pram and her older toddler was putting her fingers in the prongs of the wheel, so the mum goes "Don't put your fingers in there, they'll get caught and snap off!" I didn't know how to react at the time but looking back, it was rather hillarious!
DD was having a tanty at a resturant the other night and a security guard just happened to be walking past. So I made the most of it and told DD that if she didn't behave the security man would have to take her away. She stopped long enough to look at him and he told her that he would leave her alone today and so she kept on with her tanty!!! :wall: Then we saw him pick up a little girl (who was lost and her poor mother was frantic in another room) so I siezed THAT moment and told DD it was because the little girl had been naughty. She behaved then ;)
My mum and dad got my brother and I a good one when we were young. We were fighting in the back of the car and wouldn't stop no matter how much she yelled at us, so she pulled over and told us to get out and then took off. She only went around the corner but it frightened the life out of us. For a long time we were very well behaved in the car lol.
DH and I absolutely cracked up at this.:
This thread is hilarious. I will be saving up some of these tricks for when my ds is old enough.
On a train recently, DS picked up a mostly drunk bottle of Coke and wanted to drink it. I was not getting anywhere saying 'yuck, it's rubbish' cos he was just mimicking my words...until I had a flash of genius and told him it was 'dirty water, just look at it'...no more asking to drink it, just happy to roll it on the floor of the carriage the rest of the way home! Probably not that shameful, as I wouldn't mind if he considered it dirty water for the rest of his life...;)
On the way to the swimming pool in the freezingness of the suddenly-autumn city i told DD that "they only let you in if you've worn your hat there, if you take it off we won't be allowed to swim" - i sympathise, i HATE headwear too, but seriously, it was FREEZING! Lol.
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DD has just discoverd TV :rolleyes: and we have a small collection of Disney movies (YES I'll admit .. it was bought for ME, not dd :redface: )
So everytime she wants to watch something .. and I don't think it's a good time, or the weather outside is better or something like that .. I tell her "No, hunny, can't watch Simba .. he is sleeping" "No, Ariel is sleeping"
Poor Disney characters in my house is almost permenatnly sleeping ...
I wonder for how long I would be able to keep this up, until she can operate the DVD-player herself :think: