Helpful tips from Real Bad Mommies!

I read about a brilliant Real Bad Mommy in some humor column years ago -- can't remember where. This mom had a couple of kids who were too young to keep track of time in terms of the date and the day of the week and all that, so whenever the kids wanted to do something that the mom didn't want them to, she wouldn't tell them no or argue with them. Instead, she'd say that they could do it on Tuesday. The kids would dance around and sing, "We get to go swimming on Tuesday!" And of course by the time Tuesday rolled around, they'd forgotten all about it. Not that they'd know it was Tuesday anyway. I mean, it's not like Mommy was going to tell them, right?

I guess I should be sending this to your other site, but it didn't seem really evil enough for that.