Let’s take a minute to talk about our Mommy-sanity-secrets.
We all have them, some of them we dont like to admit to… maybe you reuse your kids socks 2-3 times before washing them or maybe you bribe your kid with chocolate 3 times a day… whatever the trick is, it keeps you sane right?
Well I want to let you in on a secret weapon of mine….a weapon that I call “Daddy Do” — originally known as “Mommy’s stupid sweetie”, but I thought that was a bit harsh. Not to mention untrue, because I’m pretty sure this trick makes me and anyone else who uses it a genius.
Sometimes when things break… or I just don’t want to deal with something…. like finding batteries for a really noisy toy, I utter a statement that my son, at 4 years old has come to learn as a solid fact of life:
“Mommy doesn’t know how to do that sweetie, when Daddy comes home he can do it”
And we all know kids don’t forget anything right?… so when Mr.Complicated comes home from his “hard day at work”, The Complicated Boy right away pushes him into his moonlighting gig, swapping out his tie for his “Handy Manny” hat as the Complicated boy begins spewing out a list of all the things he’s been waiting for him to do all day, because you know- that Mommy– she can’t do NUTTIN!
Seriously, the Complicated Boy doesnt even fight me on it, sometimes- he doesn’t even ask… he just brings me whatever it is he knows that Mommy doesn’t know how to do and say “Mommy, when Daddy comes home from work I will ask him to fix this. Right?”
The short list of things that the rule of Daddy-Do apply to:
- Batteries
- ANYTHING electronic
- ANYTHING Noisey
- ANYTHING Broken
- Board games that I know will get the boy frustrated & end in a tantrum
(like the Monopoly Town Game– what a horror show that is, car coming off the track, miscounting spaces… ugh… Daddy Do)
I’m sure there are tons more…. but, a las the children— and the pile of laundry waiting for me in the basement calls… cause laundry is something that Daddy DOESN’T do!
