annieology

I want to be a great mom.  Happy and fulfilled by being a mom.  I want perfectly behaved children, at home and in public.  I want to find that perfect balance between nurturing them and turning them into responsible members of society.

I watch Super Nanny because she can get a child to behave in 30 minutes and I think that is just awesome.

However, I realized that I am going about this all wrong.  Discipline is hard.  It requires me to always be one step ahead of six different kids whose goal it is to out wit me.  I think they are winning most days because of the sheer numbers.  Currently there are only three kids in the house and it is quiet and peaceful.  Two of them have teamed up and are playing house.  The other is quietly playing his video game.  I am getting laundry done, I am installing dishwashers.  I am even making the bed and the thought has crossed my mind that I will bake cinnamon rolls later today.  Plus we are going to a friends house.

Anyway.

I have decided that there can never be more than three kids in the house at any time.  Yes that presents a problem, and is unrealistic.  So I got my brain to working on a new plan, and when my brain is working I tend to want to let it.  So I have to turn it off and watch tv.  Then I had my AHA moment while watching The Mentalist.  The kids don’t need more discipline.

I need to learn how to hypnotize them.

It’s brilliant.

I just plant in them some post hypnotic thing and when I set the trigger as “good morning” then when I wake them up, boom compliant children who are programmed to do what I say when I say it.

The enjoyment I have received from this idea is really disproportionate to the idea itself.

Now I’m off to use the Google and find out how to hypnotize children.   And more laundry.

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