Tuesday, October 04, 2005

an open letter to parents of small children...

Put your kids to bed. Please, from the rest of us - those with our own children and especially those without - put your kids to bed at a reasonable hour. Hell, better yet, put them to bed ridiculously early. They deserve their 10-14 hours of sleep. We deserve our time without them. Why deny that?

They won't go to or stay in bed? Then 9 times out of 10 you didn't do enough to tire them out during the day. Turn off the annoying Barney video. Step away from Nick Jr's morning programming. Your child standing during the Wiggles DOES NOT COUNT.

2 comments:

Jege (Jen) said...

One word: chloroform.

...and if that doesnt work...

Two words: tranquilizer dart

dawn said...

Ah yes, it was a sad day when they stopped putting codeine and alcohol in children's cough syrup...