Suggestions for Boredom

Ever notice that in the dead of winter kids go a little stir-crazy? No? Maybe it's just my kids, but good golly almighty, Caitlynn and Miles act like maggots on garbage this time of year. They're everywhere I am and I can't seem to shake them.

You know, we tell them to play outside in the cold, but they don't want to. They want to bother us from the minute they return home from school to the moment their heads hit the pillow. With the help of Joe, I've come up with suggestions to help them kill the boredom and their willingness to swarm around us while we either study, write, or watch old episodes of Lost. It isn't like they don't have entertainment. We have TV and a computer and they have thousands of toys and books.

Since the toys and books are not working, Joe and I are giving the kids suggestions to pass the time:

• Go have a farting contest.*
• Go annoy each other in the freezing cold.
• 1000 Thumb Tack pick up.
• 208 Card Pick Up.
• Try to teach Dexter the Cat to use the toilet.
• Gather up all the dust bunnies in the corners and under the sofa and make yourself a pillow.

*The farting contest was an actual suggestion Joe made to the kids. He and I were in our office doing some work (really, we were working and studying) and the kids came barging in to bother us about something urgent (like they just discovered the Moon -- WOW! AMAZING! WE NEED TO NOTIFY NASA!). Joe suggested they leave us alone and go have a farting contest. And... you know what? They actually got excited about it and went into the other room to see who had the most smelly... well... you know.

Caitlynn won.

That's my girl!

See... these suggestions do work but they don't come with a money-back guarantee.








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