{"id":102,"date":"2006-01-09T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/using-children-for-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:19:49","slug":"using-children-for-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/using-children-for-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Using children for entertainment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Comes highly recommended!!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend has been so hectic but my darling son has kept me amused. On two occasions this weekend Jordan has had me in hysterics and I just have to share..<\/p>\n<p>Saturday he wanted to play on his Gameboy but it needed to charging so he comes into the kitchen to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>J :    Mom have we got a spare plug I can plug this into please?<br \/>Me:  Yes sweetie under the table in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>Off he goes into the living room and reappears 30 secs later.<\/p>\n<p>J:     Can I use the extension lead so I can play while its charging?<br \/>Me:  Yes hun its by the table but you&#8217;ll have to plug it in.<br \/>J:      Ok I can do it..<\/p>\n<p>Off he goes back in to the living room sort it out, I follow on a couple of minutes later to find him sitting on the floor looking totally confused as to why he couldn&#8217;t get any of it to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;He&#8217;d plugged the extension lead into its self!!! I got the giggles and hda to calm myslf down to explain to him why there was no electricity to work the game!!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening, (and in all fairness this wasn&#8217;t Jordan being a child to amuse me this was &#8220;Mommy(??) Steph&#8221; encouraging him and his friend in some totally inappropriate behaviour!!)<\/p>\n<p>It was Joshs&#8217; (Jordans class mate) birthday party at the local bowling alley and after spending 2 hours trying to teach 15 kids aged 6 and under to play we gave in and had a game ourselves, while winding the kids up completely threatening to throw them down to knock the skittles over, running round the pool tables screaming and stuffing them full of E numbers for when thier parents returned to pick them up, Finally 8pm appeared the kids dispersed and we left, me sitting the back of Shelleys (Joshs&#8217; Mom) car in between a very wound up birthday boy and my eternally over excitable son, It was a mistake on Shelley and Jays part to think that I could be trusted with them!! We were heading back to theirs for a glass or three of wine so the kids could wind down (ha!) and we parents could relax after the party!!<\/p>\n<p>In the back of the car we hatched a plan&#8230;.as we pulled on the drive I showed the boys how to let the helium out of their balloons and what fun could be had by sucking it down and running round the garden singing at the top of thier voices&#8230;.&#8221;There&#8217;s a worm at the bottom of my garden!!&#8221; It took Shelley a couple of minutes to figure out what I&#8217;d done and It took Jay even less time to find a balloon and join in!! Again I dissolved into a fit of giggles.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you had to be there to fully appriciate how funny these scenes were but how I laughed!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Comes highly recommended!! This weekend has been so hectic but my darling son has kept me amused. On two occasions this weekend Jordan has had me in hysterics and I just have to share.. Saturday he wanted to play on his Gameboy but it needed to charging so he comes into the kitchen to me&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/using-children-for-entertainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using children for entertainment&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/the-weekend-has-landed\/","url_meta":{"origin":102,"position":0},"title":"The weekend has landed&#8230;","date":"January 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This last weekend has been BRILLIANT, It was again spent in front of the TV and in the company of random friends at my house, Friday I spent wrapped in front of the tv again continuing with Season 4. 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