We did our spring cleaning today. The kids weren’t happy about it, but we cleaned ALL DAY.
So, we rewarded the kids with a trip to Walmart. Now, you may be thinking it’s not cool to bribe your kids or to reward them for things that they should do anyway, but think of the genius in this: We rewarded them with $25 gift cards for Walmart that they got for Christmas.
It was their gift card, they were just rewarded with being able to spend it... I know, evil genius.
Well, it seemed like a genius idea until we realized we were going to Walmart with four kids.
So, there we were in the parking lot giving the kids the “zero tolerance for bad behavior” speech and praying we would make it out alive.
We were in that store for almost two hours, and we have never been more proud. There was not one tear, not one whine, not one fight and did I mention four kids?
So we called Guinness because we are pretty sure that is some kind of record.
At the end of the day we had happy parents and happy children.
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