If your kids keep asking for every thing they see at every store, and you’re tired of telling them no most of the time, take them to the library and say YES YES YES YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT!!!
my mom tried this on me when I was little, and then said no when I wanted to check out with ~10 books, I was so mad
This is the one area where my mom really did great. Every week she’d rent 3-5 new books from the sci-fi section, I literally read 6 floor to ceiling shelves of books between 4-9th grade. I literally read or discarded every commonly released sci-fi book up to that point… It might’ve ruined my eyes, but it opened my mind
(not like she was a bad mom, she had lots of love but terrible advice…)
with a ‘no late-fees’ policy, truly is ‘100% off’ (…your first ‘purchase’ only, probably)
