As the boys have grown and I have tried to give them the opportunity to be more independent.
Independent = not screaming for me every moment of every day.
One of the things that is EXTREMELY helpful in this independence endeavor is the stool.
Because I believe that there is no excuse for ugly ANYTHING, I look at the stool as a work of functioning art. I walked around the house tonight taking pictures of the stools strewn around my house (most of them are located in bathrooms) just for fun…
I have collected them over the years and find that they boys pick them up and take them where they need them.
It is a form of stool migration.
Which brings me to the point that if you have kids, you can’t have too many stools.
Today I am giving away A STEP STOOL FOR KIDS from Step Stool Supply.
A random comment will be selected to win their choice of a stool from the STEP STOOL SUPPLY Kids Step Stool page with free shipping.
You get a super cute stool to match your decor and less screaming for mommy around the house.
I am simply here to help.
Here is my favorite:
It is easy to enter (please leave a comment for each entry):
- MANDATORY (scary word, eh?) – leave me a comment about one of the crazy things your child has yelled at you (or something you have heard from someone else).
- Tweet/Facebook this contest.
- Subscribe to the June Cleaver Nirvana RSS feed (and/or join my Google Friend Connect).
The contest will end midnight on next Monday, August 2, 2010. You may tweet/FB once a day if ya wish.
I will contact the winner via email and obtain their contact information for Step Stool Supply who is sponsoring this contest.
Good luck!
Great post and fun contest. I shared it on my Facebook page and called it “One Step At A TIme”
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As of recent it was sticker please.
My 2 year old likes to YELL at me, “YOU’RE MEAN!”
Step stools around here are used mainly by the “littles”…my minature dachshunds…so they can keep up with the “bigs”, my yellow labs.
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But my kids are bigguns now, so no need for me to take a giveway slot.
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My almost two-year-old screams BOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOB all day long! All he wants to do lately is watch Bob the Builder. 🙂
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Cute stool….my kids would love it!
My 5 year old daughter shrieked at me “I’m SO tired of listening to YOU!”
My daughter tells me “Crazy mama”
My 2 year old son yelled at me for Spraying his shoes…”DON’T GET MY SHOES ALL WET, I SAID!” *sigh* Gotta love this 2-year old business!
My daughter’s favorites at the moment: I don’t know how, I’m not big enough… This just after she’s done what I’ve asked, but she doesn’t want to do it again.
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I think the worst one to hear is always “I HATE YOU!!!” Awwww.
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MAMA, MAKE HIM STOP WAVING HIS PENIS AT MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
for. realz.
you can’t make this stuff up.
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My 6 year olds right now is “Buuut Mooommm!”
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Oh thankfully I have nothing to disclose since my daughter’s not yet yelling at me! But she has told me, rather huffily, “come ON mommy, let’s go” 🙂
Eat Bak Bak (eat chicken) Thats a big deal for a child that 6 months ago was almost non verbal.
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Lately, every time we ask our 9 year old to do something she doesn’t want to do, she says “What?? I can’t hear you!” back at us. Obviously, she heard us she doesn’t want to do what we asked at that moment.
My 3 year old yelled to me that he was done being patient !
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I heard.. You’re Mean!! I guess my son didn’t get his way.
Since school let our for summer vacation my 9 year old is regressing and starting to scream about anything, especially her 13 year old sister. All we can think of is that there was a girl younger at school who did a lot of screaming and the whole school knew who she was.
Just the other day, my son got mad at me and yelled, “Fine! then I won’t let you play super hero with me anymore!” Oh darn, how I will miss playing that 50 times a day. Of course, one minute later he sheepishly came back and said, “I’m sorry. I’ll let you play super hero with me but you can’t be the bad guy.”
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My son has picked up says arshole lately. No matter how many times I explain that is a noddy word; he screams it when ever he is ticked at me. UGH
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the other day whilst arguing with my two year old about who was coming over to our house he got a real angry face and yelled “I gonna (s)pank you” odd since he doesn’t get spanked. but it made me chuckle…probably not the appropriate response I’m sure.
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My youngest son who is 10 just this morning yelled to me “Mom, I think we are going to have to cut these pants off of me!!”
He tried to put a pair of shorts on that were in a giveaway pile from last summer he got them up to his behind and could not get them back off!!
I was laughing so hard I could almost not help!
My son likes to quote Kung Fu Panda at me. Specifically, at the top of this lungs “AM I?” (to which you are supposed to reply Are you?!)
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My favorite right now, is when my 2 yr old screams in public: “Mommy pooped!!!” Gotta love it!
“EH” —- she’s only one.
One of my grand sons (will that count?), when seeing a thin Santa Clause, yelled:
“Look Nonnie – Santa went to Weight Watchers!”
I learned early on to listen to my son when he has to go potty. One time I was in the supermarket with him and he had to go. I told him just a second, while I waited for the meat dept. to bring out fresh ground beef. After about 30 seconds of fidgeting, getting increasingly more agitated, my son very loudly proclaimed to the world, “I’m ’bout to ‘splode!” He’s 23 yrs old now and we still joke about that. 🙂
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Bathtime with 5 year old brother stopped after *this* gem….
“Mommy… there is something wrong with Jacobs vagina!”
Yep….. so proud… *facepalm*
She told me she didn’t like me unless I gave her presents.
Throughout the day my four-year-old will yell “You’re My Sweet Mommy, Right?” several times. He can be in the bathroom, playing in his room or sitting across the room, but he just need it confirmed I guess.
Her girlfriend is moving and she said to her mom and me (in her angry voice since she’s upset she’s moving) – “next time she needs to get a house with stairs on the inside!” (since they have an upstairs apartment and there’s a million stairs to get to it lol
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In the middle of Wal-mart yesterday my 6 yr old ask “Mom, why is sister (2 yr old) taking her diaper off?”
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My 2 year olds new Thing to yell is HELP ME!! Can’t wait till he pulls that one in public! Oh man
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When my oldest daughter was 3, she called out from the kitchen, “Mom! Can I eat daddy’s peanuts?” However, when a 3-year old says peanuts…it sounds like a different word. There was also the time she told me about the white hookers in the back of dad’s car. It took me a bit to figure out that hookers meant hangers.
One of the things that have been screamed at me is “poopoo head” and my favorite “you booger!” Funny.
I need this stool – awesome!
When one of my older boys (I will protect his identity on this one) was little he would yell that he had to go poop then take off all his clothes & throw them outside the bathroom door (no matter where we were) and say, “I am ready” so it wasn’t the words as much as the actions. It got us everytime.
My children yell at me all the time to get them cups from the cabinet. i hate when they yell at me.
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“MY NOSE”… Just recently heard from my 5 yr. old after sticking a small piece of toilet paper up her nose a little too far! I had to have her blow her nose several times hard to get it back out- thankfully it was only toilet paper. Oh, the things kids do…
I love when my 2 year old hollers Mama I love your boobies when we are shopping. Nothing gets me moving faster then that.
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My 3 yr old son thinks flies talk to him. So when he gets mad at me or his Daddy when we tell him to do something he will scream “THE FLY SAYS NO!” It is pretty amusing but people look at us like we are crazy when we are in public.
Just last week my daughter wanted a popsicle. I told her “no” for the 100th time. And she screamed at me “don’t you ever tell me no again” It wasn;t too funny at the time but looking back I giggle.
My daughter yelled at me that she was quiting ballet because the audience at the recitals want to much from her….she is 4.
My just turned TWO year old son yelled “mean mommy” at me because I wouldn’t let him eat junk for dinner. The kids can’t say much but was able to put those two words together. I wanted to cry 🙁
My 3 year old’s new favorite thing to yell is “Don’t be a party pooper” loudly and often! Who knows where they get this stuff?
My son used to say “truck” but it sounded like…uh…replace the TR with a F…and complete the word. So while in a Target, I believe it was, he yelled “LOOK MOMMY! _UCK!” Yeah. That was fun. Yes, a TRuck, honey, a very nice TRuck!
My son recently yelled at me from across the room… “You don’t know anything.” My response… ” I know that you just lost the TV for a week!” Frankly I think I am pretty smart!
My three year old yells at me multiple times a day that he DOES NOT WANT TO BE MY FRIEND!!!
My daughter asked me what country texas was in!
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I was at a swimming pool and some other little boy came up to me and said, “Niiice butt!”
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As we walked into Target one day, my 4 year old son loudly proclaimed “Hey mommy, I FARTED” as loud as he could.
My twin sister and I used to pretend we were kitty cats and use my mom’s potted flower plants for litter boxes..”meow” “meow” She would ask what we were doing as we scratched around and we would just say “We are a kitty kitty!”
My now 19 year old once yelled, rather loudly, in a grocery store, my gina hurts, my gina hurts. The buggy was hurting her…LOL>
My 8yo son told his 1 yo sister, “You go girl!” because she did all of the animal sounds he requested perfectly all right in a row.
My 4 year old son loves to ask me, loudly, if I have to poop or pee. He asks me in public restrooms, but sometimes for no reason.
We were camping and watched the lady let her dog poop on a campsite right across from our site. My mom started to make a big deal about the lady not picking up the mess. A few minutes later, the lady came back to pick it up, and while she was doing that, my 5 year old hollows to me, “MOM! She picked up the dog poop!!!”. I wanted to crawl into a hole. 🙂
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I hate you and you sat on me when I was a baby. ON PURPOSE!
My 2 year old daughter used to yell what sounded like “hate you!” but she was really commanding me to “hold still.” Not sure which one is worse… 🙂
My two year old is just now really starting to talk. She was in her room with her brother playing and I walked in. She turned to me and said her first complete sentence: “Mama out, not you room, my room”. What a great first sentence…LOL Showing independence already!
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Oh, my kid yells so many strange things I can’t remember them all. One time in a public bathroom he yelled (or at least it seemed like yelling at the time), “Mommy that was stinky.”
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My 3 year old son is Autistic and repeats things over and over, just last night he was yelling at my husband to “Go Over A Bridge” Hubby was playing World of Warcraft and he had to keep finding bridges to go over every 2 minutes.
I can’t tell you how many time “MOM, MOMMY, MOM, MAMA” is screamed at me during the day.
Last time I saw my nephew (4), he asked if I was the one who drove the truck. I replied that Grandpa did, and my nephew denied it, saying “No…Grandpa’s shorter and rounder than you!” I don’t get the logic, but I totally took it as a compliment! 🙂
My 2 year old is eager to do things he’s not yet fully capable of doing. When I tried to stop him, he yelled “I can do it myself!”
My then 3 year old daughter was a little smelly at Taco Bell. I told her we should go to the potty because I thought she was poopy. She yells at me, “I’m not poopy, Mom—I just have big toots!”
Yikes!
My daughter use to have the habit of telling me everytime she farted, lol. We were in the middle of the cereal aisle at Walmart, and of coarse there was a great looking guy right down from us, when she started yelling, “Mama, I farted.” I told her ok and to be quite, but no, she wouldn’t take that….I had to finally say, “Ok Madison, you farted. I heard you. Are you happy now?” And she was happy…I on the other hand was red as a beet.
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Oh man you want me to narrow it down to just one? hmmm thats hard… I would have to say it would have to be ” MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM I’M DOOOONNNNEEEE” that my youngest would yell when he was done going poop. or the made up songs he sings to himself while he is in there going poop ( why? I have no clue!) I knew that when i heard those words and entered the bathroom there wood be my youngest with his hands on the floor and back end up in the air waiting for me…so glad those days are over!!
I have to poop mommy! While shopping. Enough said…
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My oldest once yelled in a target store “I WANT A RED BRA!”
She was 4…I about died.
I love this step stool!! I’m always looking for additional ways to keep my kids from screaming at me. There are so many things that they say/scream. Once in a public bathroom he said very loudly “Momma! That lady pees loud!” We stayed in the stall until the lady left 😉
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I think my kids now do more yelling at each other than me, but our bathroom stool is still a little short for my four-year-old. He frequently yells “Help Mommy” while dangling from his elbows at the sink because he leaned into it and his feet don’t reach the stool!
My kid yells at me: Lemmelone!!! (Adult translation is leave me alone) She does this when I look at her, speak to here, breath near her, etc. I love toddlers.
Most scary thing I have ever heard- My now 12 year old, maybe 6 yrs old at the time, decided to pile all the pillows he could find in the center of his bedroom floor then jump into the pile from the top bunkbed. I heard the thump and ran to his room, where he sat on the floor yelling, “I’m hurt, I’m Hurt”, over and over again. Once I got him calmed down, I asked him if we needed to go to the ER. He bounced up off the floor and said, “No, I’m fine.”
Since my child doesn’t say very many words yet (he is 1) the craziest thing my son has yelled at me is “MAMA!” “MAMA!”- sorry, not very interesting. However I do have a cute story from yesterday- The little girl I nanny for yells “Jessica, come here NOW!”- so I run back to the bathroom, and she is standing on the toilet and my son is covered in water… from the toilet! UGH GROSS!
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My 7 year old and 2 year old were watching the Jeff Dunham Christmas special (he’s a comedian, if you don’t know) and now my 2 year old walks around screaming “I KILL YOU!”
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Ha! I have to narrow it down to ONE thing my daughter has said? Ok..here goes…(any Mom that had grown kids will fall over with this one)
“I am never going to have kids!”
Hmmm, didn’t WE once say that too?
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Well my daughter is only 2 but she is constantly YELLING weird things. The first one that pops in my head was actually to her dad. We were doing a little video of her riding her trike and she was singing happy birthday to my husband, however it was father’s day not his birthday, she was sort of close. He was quizzing her what day it actually was and she said Father’s Day, finally then turns around and YELLS at him “You are NOT my father! Mommy is.” I love two.
hi! thanks for the giveaway. my son has yelled ” i’m just a cowboy, and cowboys dont need mamas!!!” xx
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” Mommy but I WANT TO BE A GIRL. And you WON”T LET ME” Screamed my 3yr old son. He then went on to find me 3 people who would let him be a girl.
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