Comments on: Violent Acres: Comment on Making Light Promises

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:55 +0000

Hee. My kids are slowly learning that although I pay lip service to Daddy as the “boss of the Ohana”, Mommy is really the Supreme Court when it comes to what goes and what doesn’t.

Gretchen’s last blog post..Epicenter.

By: goinglikesixty

goinglikesixty — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:00:58 +0000

@Gretchen: The rule of thumb at our house (empty nesters) is that if Nancy says it out loud… it will happen.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:40 +0000

As I often do, I agree with VA, and you don’t even have to couch a promise as a promise; if you tell a kid you’re going to do something, you’d better do it, or be prepared for him to tell you “You lied to me.” I take this very seriously with my kids. I’m also trying to teach Ben that when raising the possibility of an outing to me in front of the kids, he’d better spell it or use code words, or THAT will be taken as a representation that we’re actually going on the outing in question.

Gretchen’s last blog post..Epicenter.

By: goinglikesixty

goinglikesixty — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:58:37 +0000

@K8: she doesn’t accept comments, so you can comment here and I link to her and she ignores you. See? Simple!

By: K8

K8 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:27:54 +0000

Oh my good lord but this is an excellent post you linked to. Thank you muchly. Now if I can only figure out how to leave comments on the other blog!!! Is the comment link staring me in the face? It is, isn’t it?