Wise (and hilarious) words from ‘real’ parents.
There is stuff we do that just works right? It works for our kids, but might not necessarily fit in with the modern do-everything-by-the-book styles of parenting we tend to try and conform to.
A recent Reddit thread was filled with some of the crazy parenting lengths we go to – and we thought we’d share a few, because hey – they might just work!
1.YouTube ‘em.
If your child won’t do what you say tell them, you will film them and put them on YouTube.
Wife: “Get down from there before you fall!”
Son “I won’t fall.”
Dad: “I’m going to get the camera so I can laugh at him falling all over again in a few days.”
Son: “I’m getting down!”
2. Get a police siren.
“I got tired of my son sleeping on the couch, he’s 4 years old and I have tried everything from flipping all the furniture over in the living room at night so he had no choice but to go to his bed, at my last wits end I put a police siren soundboard on my phone and rang it at night when he wasn’t in bed…. told him they were coming to get him for not sleeping in his bed.”
3. Google the bad guys.
“I had a friend who wanted to stop her child picking at a scab on his face. So she googled up a picture of Freddy Krueger.”
4. Tell them you will take their legs away.
“My knee-jerk reaction is to say I'll take something away. So when my then 2 1/2 year old was sitting in a shopping cart kicking me, I asked him to stop twice before I said "Stop kicking me or I'll take your legs away."