Strange things you let your kids do to keep them happy.

**Glass half full** · September 22nd, 2011, 12:20 AM

So DD has just gone to bed with a lemon

She went to bed early and is now wide awake, keeps getting up and I keep putting her back. She found a lemon under the table from when she was playing at the table earlier, and now she has taken it to bed and is quietly entertaining herself with this lemon.
So I am wondering, what strange, random things do you let your children do sometimes just to keep the peace?

**organic-girl** · September 22nd, 2011, 12:30 AM

A lemon!?! Bahahahah dd1 would and still dies at 5 cuddle her books mm comfy! Dd2 cuddles her drink bottle...

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**Jennie13** · September 22nd, 2011, 12:32 AM

hehe thats cute

My DD has some bunny ears and a little mask that she likes to wear...all the time lol. and alot of the time mummy has to wear Bunny ears too -.- sometimes I just do it to save the tantrum.....the amount of times ive answered the door to confused faces

**Glamourcide** · September 22nd, 2011, 01:12 AM

Hehehe, that's so cute! I can just imagine her snuggling a lemon instead of a teddy bear

DD2 has an obsession with a particular top (that I think is meant to be a dress, but she's tall for her age) that my mum bought her a while ago. It's stained, and been worn to death, but she freaks out and throws a stage 4 tantrum if I don't let her wear her 'fairy magic and leggings' every day... so I let her wear it (with her favourite pink leggings, of which she has three pairs just to keep up with the constant wearing), and ignore the strange looks I get at my barefoot, messy-haired toddler in a filthy top/dress and threadbare leggings! :/

**TeniBear** · September 22nd, 2011, 01:15 AM

Tonight I let her chew the arm of the couch because she refused to breastfeed. I thought once she realised it wouldn't give her milk she'd come snuggling back into me. She didn't, just kept licking the couch happily

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**ElleJay** · September 22nd, 2011, 01:25 AM

Licking couch is another one here

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**helle** · September 22nd, 2011, 04:06 AM

DS takes his drink bottle to bed with him every night. And it HAS to have this grotty old stubby holder on it from DH (that reeks of smelly tree!) otherwise it's just not the same... Apparently.

He's once taken the sippy part of a magmag with him to bed to snuggle and various dinky toys.

Glam, DS can't leave the house without his crocs (I kick myself for buying those damn shoes. It's freezing so I've been making him wear them with socks. My little Bogan) and more recently his motorbike or pram. At the moment I have a "Harley" and a pram with his "baby" in it in the back of my landcruiser *sigh*

**Shades** · September 22nd, 2011, 05:54 AM

DS has been going to bed with his crocs on at least 3 out of every 5 nights lately. I don't get it. He has slippers... But crocs are apparently better.

**Glass half full** · September 22nd, 2011, 07:35 AM

Hehe, these are all so cute! DD used to always cuddle her water bottle too. I'm picturing all these little cuties dressed in their funny outfits and giggling just at the thought!

**OceanPrincess** · September 22nd, 2011, 07:45 AM

Went to the shops with DD in hot pink sparkly ballet flats. She got them to put on and I said "no, not those shoes! You can't wear them to the shops!" and she said "Why mummy?"

And I thought "why not?" so she wore them!

I had this on Fb for a while and got lots of comments

**Lily Dust** · September 22nd, 2011, 07:46 AM

Thank goodness, Im not the only one!!!! Mt DD wears her crocs (we call them uglys) everywhere and yep she wears them to bed too

We also recently bought a terracotta snail statue for the garden about 30 x 20 and she carried it around for days, home, shops, music etc etc

**Loveinamist** · September 22nd, 2011, 07:48 AM

My DS has to hold the vacuum cleaner when we vacuum. I can imagine the tantrums in years to come will be about holding the vacuum cleaner rather than not holding it!

**Glass half full** · September 22nd, 2011, 07:51 AM

Note to self, NEVER buy crocs

Aww OP, sparkly ballet flats sound gorgeous. Why not indeed

**OceanPrincess** · September 22nd, 2011, 09:48 AM

My DS has to hold the vacuum cleaner when we vacuum. I can imagine the tantrums in years to come will be about holding the vacuum cleaner rather than not holding it!

Oh my, we have this too! It takes me about an hour to vacuum because I have to move at about 1mm per 20 minutes...

Its so cute that he wants to hold it but I just want to whizz over the floors quickly and here's DS trying to "help" me!

**Heaven** · September 22nd, 2011, 09:56 AM

LOL. DD went to bed cuddled up to a calculator the other day.

**AngelPants** · September 22nd, 2011, 09:58 AM

Yes we have the croc issue here too, also with his gumboots but the opposite prob with the vacuum cleaner, DS hates the noise & insists I hold him.
Mum never gets sick of telling me how I used to go around in my boy cousins old tshirt & shorts, red gumboots, fairy skirt... sadly there is photographic evidence

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