Tsunayoshi's Journal: Child's solution to a problem

The wife and kids have moved up the DC area so we are one happy family again as of Jan 6th. We went from a ranch to a 2-story so the kids were (still are) fascinated with the stairs, running up and down and up and down and up...They even refused to use the downstairs bathroom because they wanted to use the stairs to go to the upstairs bathroom. Of course, mom and dad were sick of stairs after 2 days of moving boxes up and down.

Apparently their mother instituted a morning rule where no kids go downstairs until after 8am since they would wake up before her and run downstairs to play (they are 3 and 5).

Situation:
My son (the 5 year old) wakes up between 7-7:30 normally, before his mother

Problem:
He wants to play, but can't go downstairs until 8am.

Solution:
Press the buttons on the alarm clock to make it say 8am. It is now ok to go downstairs.

I wish that solution was applicable at work :-)

Sweet!

[nizo]

(Time to set my work clock ahead several hours)