The most freeing words I ever speak ...
Someone posted about muttering to themselves "Not my problem. Not my problem." or something to that effect and it made me think of something I find myself saying fairly often.
The three most freeing words I ever say to the skids: "Go ask daddy."
I use it over and over again to great effect. If I'm sick of whining and feeding them and everything else, it's so simple - I pawn it all off on the real parent for a while.
Sometimes, I'll even use, "Go ask daddy and don't ask me anything else this morning (or afternoon, evening) I'm busy working on such and such and he's just being a bum."
Nothing drives me crazier than him having a lazy Sunday afternoon amongst active kids when I'm trying to do something productive and who do they of course bother? The adult who's not just a lump on the sofa. It's great to be able to shove them off on him and go about my business (mostly) uninterrupted. Most times I'll even end up with a "helper" when I use this tactic. It's so wonderful.
What about ya'll? Any favorite phrases or tactics you use with skids you'd like to share?
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I also use the "go ask your father" phrase...but snowshyte has this annoying little habit of needing to know the exact location of her father at ALL TIMES. If he's not in her line of sight she'll walk around the house shouting,"daddy? daddy? daddy?" Then she'll say to me,"Barbie do you know where my dad is?" The phrase I use IN MY HEAD is, "I'm not sure sweetie, why don't we find out about getting a lojack chip installed in his testicles so you'll ALWAYS know how to find him??"
Oh how I wish I could use that out loud to her. But I never will...so currently it's my private little inside joke with myself.
"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.”
"Where's MY dad?"
SS7 asks me this all the time, of course when I'm busy doing something. Here's my response:
"I don't know; I don't have him on GPS. Where do you think he is?"
Usually SS7 knows exactly where DH is BTW. :?
I've also taken to turning the tables on him. Now when I see SS7 but don't know where DH is I ask, "Where's your dad?"
He usually looks at me in shock. It's too funny. }:)
~BettyRay
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You guys crack me up...
WOW! So many things on this site are sooo much like my life. SS8 will come slamming out of his room yelling, where's daddy? He'll even try to go sit by the door of our master bathroom to wait on him if he's in there. If BF is inside hanging out, he'll ask over and over, "Are you going to the barn?" To get him away from me. I've even seen him trying his best to hold his dad back from coming inside by heading him off at the front door when he comes home.
My phrase is, I know you know how to do this on your own. If you won't try to help yourself, don't expect me to help you either!