I find myself repeating myself often these days...not quite sure why...not quite sure why...wait did I say that already? I can't seem to figure it out! It's like I have 8 kids or something....
Wash your clothes.....WASH your clothes.....
Clean your room....CLEAN your room....
Take out the trash......TAKE out the trash.....
and the list goes on and on and on
So I've changed my strategy after all these years! It's starting to work! I now use the "Mommy asked, not she's pissed" strategy! Otherwise known as the "Make them feel guilty" strategy...
This is how it works, I may be preaching to the choir at this point, but somehow I feel accomplished that I've finally figured this out!
Now all I do is ask ONCE! "Can you please take out the trash?"....If nothing happens, like it usually does, then I start with the "under the breath guilt dissertation"
It goes something like this (bear in mind that if you're going to use this method, you really need to perfect the level of sound in your voice, up for the capital words, down for the lower case words, it works I promise):
"All I do around here is take out the garbage! I cook for them, I clean for them, I teach them, I NOW wash some of their clothes cause they just won't LISTEN to me...and NOW I have to take the TRASH out too!!! You'd think that just ONE of them would see all that I do, AND that I carried them for 9 months in my body, gained all kinds of WEIGHT, had cravings for stuff that any normal human being would get sick on, then went through the PAIN to bring them into this world, got PEED on, pooped on, SPIT up on, and I, their lovely mommy now has to take out the trash! TOO!!!!"
Usually at about three steps downstairs I have at least one of my kids running behind me to take it from my hand and bring it out for me!!! And their excuse is always, "Gee mom why didn't you ask ME, you know I would have done it!" (suck up!!!)
This has become a tried and true strategy....I suggest it to the world of Mommies....I have more, but try this one first, see the outcome and pass it on to those that are flying by the seat of their pants......they will thank you one day!!!
Wash your clothes.....WASH your clothes.....
Clean your room....CLEAN your room....
Take out the trash......TAKE out the trash.....
and the list goes on and on and on
So I've changed my strategy after all these years! It's starting to work! I now use the "Mommy asked, not she's pissed" strategy! Otherwise known as the "Make them feel guilty" strategy...
This is how it works, I may be preaching to the choir at this point, but somehow I feel accomplished that I've finally figured this out!
Now all I do is ask ONCE! "Can you please take out the trash?"....If nothing happens, like it usually does, then I start with the "under the breath guilt dissertation"
It goes something like this (bear in mind that if you're going to use this method, you really need to perfect the level of sound in your voice, up for the capital words, down for the lower case words, it works I promise):
"All I do around here is take out the garbage! I cook for them, I clean for them, I teach them, I NOW wash some of their clothes cause they just won't LISTEN to me...and NOW I have to take the TRASH out too!!! You'd think that just ONE of them would see all that I do, AND that I carried them for 9 months in my body, gained all kinds of WEIGHT, had cravings for stuff that any normal human being would get sick on, then went through the PAIN to bring them into this world, got PEED on, pooped on, SPIT up on, and I, their lovely mommy now has to take out the trash! TOO!!!!"
Usually at about three steps downstairs I have at least one of my kids running behind me to take it from my hand and bring it out for me!!! And their excuse is always, "Gee mom why didn't you ask ME, you know I would have done it!" (suck up!!!)
This has become a tried and true strategy....I suggest it to the world of Mommies....I have more, but try this one first, see the outcome and pass it on to those that are flying by the seat of their pants......they will thank you one day!!!
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