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Bribe Your Kids to Bed

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The person you don’t need is Nanny McPhee.

Just give the kids some cash.

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There are many struggles involved with parenting. One of the most frustrating ones in our homes is getting our children to go to bed at a reasonable time.  It appears to be a global problem, too. But as the attached article points out, some British parents have the ideal solution – bribery. The blog below reports that “the British company Munch Bunch recently released a study of 3,000 British parents, showing that more than one in five moms and dads resort to bribing their kids to go to bed.” Some of the bribery tactics include:

  • Letting kids stay up later on the weekend.
  • Letting them watch a bit more TV. (Hmmm, Letterman perhaps?)
  • Offering brownies and other sweets (unless they have Sominex in them, this is not a wise decision).
  • Signing the deed of their homes over to their children (Ok, we joke, but you get the point).

Have you ever bribed a kid to bed? Come on, be honest.

  • 17 percent of parents say they promised a later weekend bedtime
  • 28 percent let the kids watch TV “a bit more”
  • 6 percent bribed the little tykes with brownies, cookies and other sweets
  • 17 percent of parents say they promised a later weekend bedtime
  • 28 percent let the kids watch TV “a bit more”
  • 6 percent bribed the little tykes with brownies, cookies and other sweets

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