Anonymous_IHB
New member
Thought I'd start a thread on clever parenting tricks you have discovered. Here are two of mine:
1. When kids want something totally impractical in the store you don't want to buy (ex. want to buy the whole collection of Smurf beanie babies or something like that), tell them they can't buy it, but you can take a picture of them with their cool things. Then take out your cell phone and take a picture and have them put the things back. Works well, sometimes they like to see the picture later - they are happy to have just taken the memory of it with them via the photo.
2. If you need to discipline your child, but in a totally politically correct way, give them the uber healthy food treatment. That is, for one day, you will follow the doctor recommended dietary stuff to the letter all day (ie. no sugar, no added salt, no sugary drinks - milk and water only, whole wheat instead of white, no added fats or sugars which means no butter and you get a tomato slice instead of ketchup, etc, no candies or dessert, and so on). Works like a charm.
1. When kids want something totally impractical in the store you don't want to buy (ex. want to buy the whole collection of Smurf beanie babies or something like that), tell them they can't buy it, but you can take a picture of them with their cool things. Then take out your cell phone and take a picture and have them put the things back. Works well, sometimes they like to see the picture later - they are happy to have just taken the memory of it with them via the photo.
2. If you need to discipline your child, but in a totally politically correct way, give them the uber healthy food treatment. That is, for one day, you will follow the doctor recommended dietary stuff to the letter all day (ie. no sugar, no added salt, no sugary drinks - milk and water only, whole wheat instead of white, no added fats or sugars which means no butter and you get a tomato slice instead of ketchup, etc, no candies or dessert, and so on). Works like a charm.