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What gets you through “hell” hour?
 
Jan 14, 2008  04:27 PM
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In today’s column, Beer is good for you, I wrote about getting through “hell hour “with my kids. Hell hour is that time just before dinner when everyone in the family is tired, hungry, and whiny. I bring out the beer. And I often give my kids a healthy appetizer to keep ‘em quiet.

Anyone else got any good solutions for dealing with “hell hour”?

 
Reply #1 • Jan 14, 2008  06:19 PM
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for me, it was (sorta) loud music while i was cooking supper ... hip-hop/rap, preferably ... when the whining commenced, i would scruntch up my face and say, “whaaaat?! i can’t HEAR you!”

plus it inspired us to dance ... dancing together with the kids around the kitchen and the living room broke the tension many, many nights ...

 
Reply #2 • Jan 14, 2008  06:28 PM
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Nice, Lumina! We’ve done some music therapy as well, although now the kids have opinions. So I, unfortunately, know all the words to all the songs on BOTH High School Musical CDs.

 
Reply #3 • Jan 14, 2008  06:39 PM
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by the time my girl was 5, her dad and brother had both moved out, leaving the house very peaceful most of the time. it was just her and me, and i often had her sit on the kitchen counter and read to me (her older brother had read aloud to me from the kitchen table many nights, and it advanced his reading level from 1st grade to 8th grade in one year!) or “help” with stirring and such. i had it easy by then ... :)

 
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I definitely bring out the beer or the vino.

If I can’t get my son out of the kitchen altogether, I ask him to help me make dinner. He’ll be over there scrubbing taters or chopping something up…and then….suddenly, he’s nowhere to be found.

My problem is keeping them out of the food while I’m still trying to cook it. They’ll dig the food right out of the cooking pot and then run off before I can give them a good smack ;0)

 
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Giving the lil’ rugrats back to their parents…

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Reply #6 • Jan 25, 2009  09:50 PM
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Shoving them back inside of mom.

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That might be the grossest mental image I’ve ever been confronted with….

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Me shoving a baby back in side or the thirty something that had that baby’s desperate fight for relevance?

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Jason Bugg - 25 January 2009 09:57 PM

Me shoving a baby back in side or the thirty something that had that baby’s desperate fight for relevance?

Anything that has to do with you touching infants in any manner, actually.

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Reply #10 • Jan 25, 2009  10:28 PM
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I love babies. I even was one.

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With much larger genitals.

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I can’t wait till EM gets back to this thread…

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She doesn’t read this stuff. She’s out overthrowing governments and being Edgy.

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She doesn’t read this stuff. She’s out overthrowing governments and being Edgy.

*sigh*

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What?

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