Aug. 26, 2005
To the grocery store for me, with all the kids
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I
need to get ready to go, but I'm putting it off lol. I *think*
the kids will probably behave fine, but lately, it's been a nightmare
when I take them to the store w/me and I don't know why. Either
the older two are bickering or they're acting like complete idiots
 . And Nikol is sentenced to the front of the cart until he doesn't fit there anymore  ,
because I'm the mom and I can do that. *He* gets mad if one of the
other kids touches the cart anywhere near him. Or he wants to get
out. Read my lips (or my blog): N-O. Last time I had to go,
I threatened all of them mightily about the consequences and they were
all pretty good. Nobody really wanted to be spanked, eat their
dinner and go right to bed at like 6pm, so I had a pretty good trip  , all things considered. Maybe I shouldn't think so negatively about it before it even happens. It sounds like I have terrible kids who don't know how to behave AT ALL. This is not the case. On one of my homeschool tapes, the speaker says he has a theory about grocery stores - it's the automatic doors. Something in those sensors causes something to happen in the children's brains and they forget everything they were ever taught about behavior or *anything.* I like to include places like Walmart and Target, since their doors are similiar  .OK, off to truly get ready. I am going to try to think positively about this. I remind them frequently that we are examples of homeschoolers and we're examples of Christians (they know a Bible verse about being an example) and I ask them what kind of example they want people to see. This sometimes has an effect, but not as much as I'd like  . I guess we'll see. |
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