How To Freak Out Your Kids

In today's episode of How To Freak Out Your Kids, I used two different techniques.

First, I took The Little Mr's to a location far, far away and left them for a long, long time.

Translation: They're at grandma and grandpa's for about a week.

But they're a little skittish about being away from home for overnights and for more than oh, say a day.

Next, I let Little Miss fall asleep in the arm chair in front of the TV while I tried to get Little One to go to sleep. The had decided they were the only ones home with me, so it was all about rebellion. No one was going to just lay down in their beds and go to sleep like they normally do, no way, they had me captive!

So here's how you freak them out.

Wait for The Little Mr.'s to call on the phone. Answer. Let them say about 2 words, then cut them off, tell them how much you love them, but you have to run because the tornado sirens are going off and you need to haul 2 babies and a dog to the basement.

Part 2. Wake up those 2 sleeping kids and drag them to the basement, along with the dog, the "storm" bag and hang out. Let them sleep in their big brother's bed while listening to the weather alerts on the special weather radio.

Yup. That's how we do it around here.

Oh yeah, and don't forget to make sure your spouse in on a plane trying to land at the air port where they're reporting seeing tornado's. Super cool.

It's even better if you manage to let it slip to the big kids that daddy is still in the air.

Freak out.

Total freak out.

That's the way we do it around here.