Riding the Buggy

A few weeks ago I took the children to see the movie "Nanny McFee". It was a trip! It made me wish I had magical powers like the Nanny. She taught those naughty children lessons FAST! For instance, the children didn't want to get out of bed and said they were sick. They went so far as to put red spots on each others faces! She knew they were full of it and hit her cane on the floor (which is the equivalent of Samantha on Be-Witched wiggling her nose) and the kids were stuck in the bed as if their butts were glued down! They stayed in the bed all day STUCK. So when kids want to be bad and disobey, it would be cool to FORCE them to DO exactly what they think they want...for a long, long time.
Which is exactly what I did...
Every time we go to any store, Matt jumps on the back of the cart. Pushing 80 pounds around on the back of a cart will break your back. I have told him OVER and OVER not to do it, but he always does it anyway. Well after the movie we went to Wal-Mart. AND not just to do regular shopping -grocery shopping too- with my mother. When you go shopping with my mother, it takes FOREVER. She is the QUEEN of reading labels. Anyway as soon as we went into the store I got my buggy and OF COURSE Matt jumped right on. But this time I didn't tell him to get off. I told him HOLD ON TIGHT! I refused to allow him to get down. After 1 hour of holding on to that cart for dear life, he was begging me to get DOWN! He keep asking if he could GET DOWN... NO! He also stuck his tongue out at Katherine and I told him," Oh, don't worry about putting it back in your mouth". So we were walking around Wal-Mart with Matt holding on to that cart with tight fists and his tongue stuck out his mouth! (He kept his head down so no one saw) Guess what? Matt NEVER jumps on the back of the carts anymore and the tongue thing was only the last 10 minutes or so, but I can't remember the last time he did that either.
These kiddie movies, they can be REAL educational for ADULTS...
Nanny McFee gets 5 stars!