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Oh and I forgot a really great one - if your child is really scared of monsters, and keep on getting upset every night, get a $1 water sprayer and print a picture of a monster to stick on it, and then fill it with water and maybe a few drops of lemon or euculyptus (so they don't suck it) and say it's monster spray (keep it up high if you don't trust them not to drink it...). Then you spray it under the beds and in their closets to get rid of the monsters! Just like fly spray!
My brother and I grilled them over Christmas lunch after a few bottles of wine and they stood their ground!! Mungo went to a farm!!! It's funny because it was only a few years ago that I went "Hang on a sec!!! As if!" - it worked right up until I was about 18!:
Paris' finger smells REALLY bad if she's told a lie. Strangely though she won't let me smell it sometimes...
I remember reading the funniest story one day. A little kid was in a line at a bank with his mum, and he was chucking a major wobbly. He looked up and saw the security camera and stood very still. He then turned to his mother and said "Mummy is that how Santa watches us?" She took it and ran with it. And after that no matter where they were all she needed to do was point out the camera and he was as good as gold.
Fantastic thread topic. Love it!
When Devrim was naughty (he doesn't fall for it anymore though, shame!) i used to pick up the phone dial an absurd number and talk to the police telling them to come and get Devrim because he was naughty. Mind you i was speaking in Turkish as that was the language he would understand then. I would get him to listen to the voice over on the other side saying "p o 7 8 3 your call could not be connected, please check the number and try again". He wouldn't know what they were saying, he thought i really called the police and would behave. He never questioned why they never came though.
Now he uses that scare tactic on us when we misbehave by him. He says "i'm gonna call the police and tell them that my mummy and daddy are being naughty and to come and get them!"
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.