Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Go Mom!

Hey! Look! Here's one meaner than me.
Meanest Mom on Planet Someone should give this woman a trophy.

3 comments:

Scotty said...

Hehe, good on her, I say. Aren't we always told that kids need boundaries, want boundaries set by their parents? And yet, those same kids will scream blue murder when you enforce those boundaries, right?

I once wondered if I would qualify as the meanest Dad; why? My daughter had a habit of repeatedly slamming her bedroom door when she had a dummy spit. One day I told her, "Slam that door again and you'll be without a door until you apologise for deliberately annoying me."

SLAM!

When she went to school the next day, I took the door off; boy was she pissed off when she got home.

It took her 3 weeks to offer me an apology (one that I felt she actually meant) - the door was never slammed again.

I'm not mean but I do mean what I say, and I can be agonisingly consistent with it too.

:-)

Dennis Bryant said...

If my mother had caught me with alcohol while I was living under her roof, I'd have lost a lot more than my car. It makes me shudder to think about it...

Mary O. Paddock said...

Oooh! Inventive parenting, Scotty.
And she also learned that you mean what you say.

I hear you Dennis. It's nice to see that tough parenting hasn't totally gone out of style, don't you think?