Don't resist the urge

Do it.  Let the silliness overwhelm you!

 

There is something about being around kids that drops that "Maturity" Filter I have worked so hard to forge.  I feel like being silly, making faces and fart noises. 

 

When I am in the grocery store, and I pass the broccoli - I want to break out into Dana Carvey's "Chopping Broccoli" Song.

 

I have in the past week had a completely gibberish conversation with my son that sounded kinda German, kinda Scottish, with a little Wisconsin thrown in.

 

Can't keep the dogs off the back stairs?  Water guns are awesome and the kids will BEG to do it.

 

When my kids are acting up in public, I pretend I am the supreme redneck and threaten to "beat 'em with Granny's Cane" or cut their legs off.  It gets them giggling like crazy, but I have had more than one person approach me, with caution, and give me their parenting opinion.

 

When me and the kids are in the car, we find some hardcore metal and just head bang like crazy.  I had to take off the headrest this last time cause I nearly knocked myself out.

 

 

For all that craziness that I put out there, and for all the bad looks I get, I do have a few tricks I have learned.

If your kid is crying, pick them up and proceed directly to the checkout. Period.

If your kid wants something, and you don't want to get it for them, don't have an argument in the middle of the toy section.  I say, "Sure!" , put it in the cart and then when their back is turned take it out.  They usually have forgotten about it by the time we check out, and if they haven't, then I can argue with them in the car instead of in the middle of the damn store.

 

MWAH, BLAH, BLAH