TORTURING THE CHILDREN

I love to torture my kids! (This is not a picture of me by the way)

I get so much pleasure out of it! Why not?
They’ve been doing it to me for years!
Right now they're all teenagers, so I figure why wait for them to have children of their own so I can enjoy the curses I’ve placed on them? It’s pretty entertaining and it instantly takes the stress off me.
For instance, every parent goes through this. You’re on one side of the house and one of your children calls out for you from where ever they are. MOM….MMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOMMMM?
I don’t know about you, but that used to dissolve my skeleton. I’d get upset, have to stop what I was doing and yell back STOP YELLING FOR ME FROM ANOTHER ROOM UNLESS YOU’RE BLEEDING OR ON FIRE! Come and find me if you need me.

After years and years of this, they still don’t get it। So now, instead of getting upset, I remain quiet. Quiet as a mouse forcing them to get up and search for me, still calling out for me at the top of their lungs of course. I hide. I literally hide in a closet or under the bed and snicker while I listen to them search for me. Then when they are out of site I return to what I was doing still quiet so they wont find me right away. When they find me its: “Wow mom, where were you? Didn’t you hear me calling you? I was looking all over for you”. I simply say “oh sorry…didn’t hear ya!”. :0) I’m not a great liar so they knew I heard them which made it even better. I still had to hear the ear melting, nerve splitting hollering but it was a small price to pay to see their exhaustion and to know that the tables were now turned.

It doesn’t happen very much anymore. Now they just yell out “Mom, which room are you in?” I don’t think they’ve caught on to the hiding aspect yet.
I have so many different ways to torture them. It’s the little things that help keep my sanity in tact. Try it sometime. If they catch you hiding, what is the worst that can happen? Lots of laughter and hopefully they’ll get the point. (Don’t try this with children under the age of 12). They might mimic you with the hiding part. Totally defeats the purpose!