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!
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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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.”
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.
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!
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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 😉
My oldest once yelled in a target store “I WANT A RED BRA!”
She was 4…I about died.
I just followed you publicly via GFC. under A Lil’ Of This A Lil’ Of That.
I have to poop mommy! While shopping. Enough said…
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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!!