Bed Time Bedlam...

"If you have an itchy foot, are you allowed out?"

"No!"

"If you have a sore finger are you allowed out?"

"NO!!"

"If you have a red spot on your finger are you allowed out of your room?"

"NO!"

"If you THINK you have a sore tummy are you allowed out"

"NO!!"

"If you are bleeding from the eyes are you allowed out of your room?"

"NO!!"

Seems the kids were taking my threats very seriously tonight!

We have been having this issue lately with the kids (mainly Kaitlyn) making up fantastic excuses and coming out of their bedroom at night time. The rule in our house is and always has been that once you are in bed that's IT!! And in the morning you stay in bed until mum or dad comes to get you out-it's been this way since we had Kaitlyn. They are allowed to read a book or sing songs in the morning but they don't wander the house or come and jump into bed with us...unless we go and grab them for morning cuddles. I just think it kinda teaches a bit of respect-mummy and daddy have the right to our own personal space and time together, when they go to bed it's our time to watch our tv shows, have adult conversations and relax.

I'm over their crap though. Bradley will say something to Kaitlyn for example; "look Kaitlyn I have a red dot on my arm" and Kaitlyn will make him come out to show us, Bradley gets in trouble and gets sent back to bed.

This happens multiple times a night. And then the last couple of weeks has been starting anytime from 5am onwards.

And I'm bloody tired of it. We have had a good talking to Kaitlyn about her manipulative, rude behaviour. And we have also had a word with Bradley about being dumb enough to listen to her.
Seems neither of them seem to think I'm serious. In our last house we had these plastic door knob covers (that you're supposed to use to stop kids going IN to a room) we used to stop them coming OUT of their rooms, but here we have door handles not door knobs so we can't do that anymore.

So now we go through this drill at bed time. Not that it seems to have worked very well....

Although until further notice our Friday afternoon milkshakes are also off the cards-they love their Friday afternoon milkshakes, I wonder how many they will miss out on before they stop wandering the house.