While a midnight snack might help get you down, kids systems are quick to turn Mac and cheese into monster fuel. Here are five causes of bedtime frustration and what you can do about it.ġ. Find splice in that someday your revenge will come when they become parents and you get a chance to slip your grandkids chocolate chips before bedtime. If only they knew that after they go to sleep all you do is clean, pay bills, fix whatever they broke, and scourer the internet for what you are doing wrong as a parent and how to fix it-they might not be so sad to go to sleep. You would love to go to bed and get some extra sleep, but your kids probably fuss and want to stay up with the grown ups. Hell it sounds so good I may just flip the breaker when I get home tonight and play along. If you are one of the unfortunate people without power, we hope that your home is quickly restored back to normal, but also that you Stunt Dad (yes its a verb too) the moment by making the most of it and playing with your kids the way you played with your best friend a few decades ago with imagination. Remember? Remember when a paper towel roll became a sword and a toilet paper roll was a telescope? Do you even remember anymore how to turn a marker into a gun by holding it over your closed fist with your thumb? Think your kid knows that one? All we really needed was our undivided attention to the goal of having a good time. we made games up, changed the rules of dodgeball so it could be played with a potatoe and enjoyed whatever our imaginations could create. We played cops and robbers with our hands and feet instead of a joystick, tag was a game and not a way to categorize a Facebook pic. And when we were bored of that we played board games. When we were kids (us Stunt Dads) we played with cardboard boxes instead of X Boxes. We would also like to share that a power outage is a great time to teach kids what life was like before 500 cable channels, Wii, X Box, iPhones and iPads. Our thoughts are with all the Stunt Dads who are dealing with flooding, power outages and most important.closed schools.
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