I recently started using a parenting expression that I never thought
would come out of my mouth: “Don‟t make me tell Daddy.”Once upon a time I was a calmer and more collected mom. But now things are ________I have three kids— ages 7, 5, and 15 months — which is only part of the _________. The bigger part: My husband and I used to______children together.Then about a month after our third child was born, he _______a sales job that required a long hours, leaving me with the lion‟s share of _______
Without him around to _______, keeping the kiddos in check has been more _________and the “don‟t make me tell daddy” thing just kind of started. My five-year-old was the first to _______those five words.. She‟d
do__________ like kick her older brother repeatedly and when I asked her to __________,she‟d say, “You‟re not gonna tell Daddy are you?” I never
indulged her. Then one day my kids were climbing on the snow banks in our driveway,__________to get into the car for school and when I started to get mad, my daughter mentioned “Daddy” again. So I said ____________“ Don‟t make me tell Daddy,” What ______me was that It worked.
The more I ________those five words, the more I suspected it was wrong and, it turns out, I was_______.“When a mom says, „Don‟t make me tell Daddy‟, the child concludes that the ______ is the source of power, Laura Markham, a child psychologist, told me later.“You‟re________your kids that their father is to be ________ and their mother is not in charge
This is not _______ for Mom and not fair to Dad.And I don‟t want to lose my ________ to kids whose shoes I still tie.
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