How about "I hid 2 quarters in your room. If you find them in the next 30 minutes you can keep them, but you have to find them both." Make one somewhat easy and the other super hard.
Married, 40ish mom of two (or three, or four, depending on how you keep score) who stepped through the lookinglass and now finds herself living in curiouser and curiouser lands of Marriage, Motherhood, and the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
January 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM
OOOO good one!!
January 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Oh that's funny!
Reminds me of something my mom use to do to the neighbor kids. When she wanted them to go home, she'd say to them, "Go tell your mommy she wants you."
Worked every time.
January 21, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Awesome. I will definitely remember that one for the next time the neighborhood kids come over.
January 22, 2008 at 2:41 AM
How about "I hid 2 quarters in your room. If you find them in the next 30 minutes you can keep them, but you have to find them both." Make one somewhat easy and the other super hard.
Cheapest babysitter ever.
January 24, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Brilliant, yet so easy.
January 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I am stealing that one.
January 25, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Thats a good trick! I'll have to remember that!