Who needs Aly-Nanny?

Just got finished watching Super Nanny. I just don't get some of these push-over parents! "I don't want her (8 year old daughter) to be mad at me so I am apologizing for making her get dressed for school!" Waaa! The sad thing is these "parents" are cowards... cheating their children out of a good upbringing which ultimately prepares them for life, society, career, etc! They need a swift kick in the rear... the parents not the kids.

Parenting tip... don't argue with your child. That is the danger zone of the power struggle. Just stick to the core message you are trying to get through to them...


Kid "Can I have some Sour Skittles?"
Parent "Not right now."
Kid "But I want them! I'm hungry!"
Parent "It is right before supper."
Kid "So! I'll still eat my supper! I promise!"
Parent "No you won't, and it's not good for you to fill up on candy."
Kid "I wouldn't fill up... just some! I ate good at lunch! Please!"
Parent "No. "
Kid "You never let me have what I want!"
Parent "Now you know that is not true!...
and on and on and on... gross.

Or the convo could have gone like this...
Kid "Can I have some Sour Skittles?"
Parent "Not right now."
Kid "But I want them! I'm hungry!"
Parent "The answer is no and if you ask me again you will have no TV or video games tonight. Say 'Yes Mam' to Mommy."
Kid "Yes Mam."
Parent "Good job!"
done.

Pretty soon your children will accept your "no" as "no." My kids actually have fun with it... I say no and they have this funny way they say, "darn." And we giggle and that is it. You don't argue with the parental unit in this house.


WANT TO ENTERTAIN YOUR SELF WHILE DEALING WITH MUNDANE PARENTING SITUATIONS? ... Try answering all the kiddies questions with 8-Ball answers...

Kid "Mommy, can I watch Sponge Bob?"
Parent "Outlook cloudy."

Kid "Are we having chicken for supper tonight?"
Parent "My sources say yes."

Gotta have some fun with this stuff.

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Ooo I can't stand that commercial where the little boy wakes up his parents to stand in their doorway and scold them about their investing... how smug. Guess if you aren't doing everything the little big-head boy is saying then you are just an idiot. But what do I know... my 12 year old daughter has been bugging me about teaching her about investing for 3 years . Check out this site... KID MONEY FUN!

Where are you Vera?

When is the last time you watched reruns of "In Living Color"? Every Sunday night my sister and I would tune in to desperately try to mimic the "Fly Girls" moves, watch Homey the Clown, Fire Marshal Bill, Vera D'milo, Men on Film and... my favorite ("I said I got 'chu!")... Wanda. Could we still have a hilarious show like that now? In the day and age of politically correct? Don't know, but would like to think the bonus of a good belly laugh would trump any hurt feelings.

Enjoy the videos... Vera's stretch is especially... um... heinous?

OOOOoooo that SMELL!!

If you want the whole story behind this grizley photo... click on...
MY MAN WAS SKEERED SO I HAD TO MAN UP AND TCB!

(please sing the following with the tune of Me and my Shadow from Peter Pan...)

Me and my Possum! My Possum and ME! We all fit together as close as can be! We make pictures on the floor and the wall, like rabbits and dogs... and that's not all! Where ever we go we have com-pa-ny! Me and my Possum! (da, da, da, da, da, da, daa!)
My Possum and ME!

New to You Tunes

Went to Noble Savage this weekend to hear "Dirt Foot" play... wow! What a good band! Enjoyed them... probably too much. If you have an opportunity, gather your friends and have a listen! When is the last time you tried out a new kind of music? There are some of us that are still stuck in the 80's, some of us that are still thinking the radio is the only place to hear music... top 40! Woo Hoo! No... stop it.

Here is some off brand-ness that I really like... Pete Yorn, The Editors, Muse, and Coconut Records.

Just because we aren't in high school and college (our kids are) doesn't mean we can't continue to develop our fav's. In fact, with MySpace, Youtube, etc, there is more new, interesting music choices than ever! Share some of your new finds with me...

Reply to Bookston!

Recently this man... MIKE BOOKSTON...
wrote a silly opinion piece in the Shreveport Times that I strongly disagreed with. Here is my reply which the Times will be printing this week sometime...


I read that Mike Bookston lives in Dubberly… that couldn’t be more obvious from his recent opinion piece titled, “The Louisiana Boardwalk policy takes a dark turn.” Take it from me, Mike, a resident that lives less than 10 minutes away from the Boardwalk and frequents that area, it is nothing but common sense that the management decided to make another rule concerning teen patronage there.

Try taking your family of five down there on a Saturday night see what kind of crowd you have to fight through to get to your destination. Have you, Mike, ever tried to walk through a sea of teens under no supervision with small children in tow? There were times I literally could not get through the mass, had to back out and find another route. It is dangerous and scary. They are impressing each other with free flowing vulgar language including vivid descriptions of various genitalia, sexual positions and other creative, foul uses of language. They are bumping into you AND your small children as they chase each other. They will push you or your child if you don’t move fast enough to get out of their way.

Before the “Youth Pick-Up Zone” was put into effect that is exactly what it was like. The new rule helped quite a bit, but further enforcement was clearly needed so The Boardwalk wouldn’t end up like Shreveport’s Downtown entertainment district… a failure.

Here is another hint, Mike... I spend more money on myself and my family than a teen with their "$20 of spending money." Management at the Boardwalk no doubt considers this when trying to maintain a pleasant and welcome atmosphere.

If you don’t approve of the new rules and feel these teens deserve an all access freedom, maybe you could volunteer to be at the Boardwalk on Friday and Saturday nights to look after them… because their parents aren’t doing it. Until then, do not knock Boardwalk management for dealing with a huge problem that has been dumped in their laps.

What do you think, Oh Blog reader? Leave your message at the tone... Yes, I mean comment. sheish, you try to be creative and look what happens.

Am I sick or...

Am I the only one that thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is one sexy man? He is the former prime minister of Israel also! See... it's safe to think he is dreamy because he is completely unreachable. If he were the mayor of Haughton, or someone, you know, local, it would not be prudent to admire him so.

Who is your famous "the only dude I think is hot besides my husband?" And don't be trashy and talk about dancing with the stars fairies! Leave your message at the beep...

April Bools!

Bool is a made up word from the cavern of spook that is Stephan King's mind. He uses in a few of his books and explains it has the same meaning of a "Gotcha!" moment. BOOL! There is something about that word that creeps me out. It just has a feeling to it... like something I might hear a scary clown say to me one night... after I find him standing in my closet.

help

Just creeped myself out again.

Speaking of creepy, we have had yet another ghost sighting. Oh, you don't know about our ghost? The first sighting was, unfortunately, by my daughter. She woke up one morning, sat up in bed and looked in the reflection of the mirror that hung on the wall across from her. She saw a little girl hunched over the head board behind her. Spook-diddley. We have all heard things also. Fletcher and I have both had instances where the "ghost" used the other's voice to call our name (I heard Fletcher's voice call my name when he claims he did not and vice versa... when we were the only ones home).

The most recent incident happened last week. We had a friend walk up to our home and ask who the girl with the long dark hair was sitting in a chair in our front room... we don't have any furniture in our front room. It's empty because I teach dance there. Plus, no one in our family has long dark hair. Um... yikes again.

SO... at this point we have a ghost hunter team that wants to come down from Arkansas to evaluate our home. Bool? Are we just freaks if we do this? Should we wait until Halloween?

Anything happen to you on April Bool's Day?