Here’s a sample of the phrases I find myself repeating to the boys ad infinitum these days:
a) The couch is ONLY FOR SITTING. It isn’t a place for jumping or standing and it’s most certainly not a place from which you can hurtle yourselves across the room!
b) Put your pants/nappy/shirt/socks back on.
c) No we cannot go to Naani’s house.
d) I love you guys!
e) Ok, you’re going to have to be quiet for a little while – I’m putting M to sleep now.
f) I said, “Quiet please.”
g) SHHH!
h) He isn’t going to go to sleep because he keeps hearing your voices. Please be quiet!
i) Ok well he isn’t sleeping, let’s all go to the spare room and play.
j) Choc chips are not breakfast food.
k) You can’t have choc chips for morning tea.
l) Ok ok! You can have choc chips for morning tea. *sigh*
I find myself saying the same things over and over, day after day. Perhaps I should just make recordings of the things I have to tell the kids so I can just play it all day long and save my voice and perhaps a little sanity.
Salaam Tasmiya,
I really enjoyed reading some of your blog. I like your Mom perspective and can totally relate. I have 3 boys of my own and I do feel like a broken record a lot of the time. Good job on the blog.
shazia
Salamaat,
this is hilarious!
Mine right now (with a toddler who is clambering all over the place)
“STOP”
“You are gonna fall!”
“Come here..”
“Aww..give mama a kiss”
“Not a slap, no a kiss!”
“No baby, not a bite!”
“No STOP BITING MAMA OUCH OUCH OUCH!”
okay, i am getting carried away
Thanks for the smiles 
I hope you are having a good Ramadhan
Peace and pie 
Lots of laughs, but sympathy too!
My classroom has some broken record sayings too.. perhaps I should pop them up in a blog post sometime !!
Ah that brings back memories
All I can say is wait until they are teenagers and don’t talk to you at all.
Ya Haqq!
You sound an awful lot like me!
I hope those are WHITE chocolate chips you’re giving/not giving him!
Salaam,
Surviving – a recording sounds like a good idea. If I played it over and over I could sneak away for a quick cup of tea and the boys would never notice!
Shazia – thank you for visiting and leaving such kind words. It heartens me so when I hear my words resonate with other mums out there.
Maliha – Heehee! Those toddler years are great, aren’t they?
Aly – I just KNOW what your broken record sayings would be – Pencils down. I said PENCILS DOWN! WALKING, CHILDREN, WALKING!
Irving – you mean there is more trouble to come?? Allah help us all cope with our teenage children.
b. –
I think it’s Ramadan – I’m too tired to use effective and consistent discipline and am giving in and my boys are LOVING every minute of it. Who am I kidding, I was never consistent anyway.
doctorsister – of course it’s white chocolate. He hates the “bwown” stuff!
Salaams!
Just wanted to say Ramadhaan Mubarak to you all!
Hope everything is going well, inshallah.
Its gettin cole here now… I hate the winter!
****** [doctorsister] still globe-trotting??
Zunaid
Walaikum asalaam Zunaid!
Gosh, haven’t heard from you in ages!
No, alas, no longer globetrotting, not that i moved around much (at all!) just stayed in Jordan for the seven months.
I returned home a few weeks ago, back to work *sigh* last week… it’s like i never left! (Except that I keep wishing i could go back).
When are you going to trot over the globe to visit US?!
DSAH
DSAH (i like the nicknames)!!
I know…. R.L. (who used to live here, then moved to Brisbane) keeps on asking that question!
Inshallah I’ll come over… I really want to visit the desert there, and of course go scuba-diving, which is my next activity to conquer.
Tasmiya: the cat STILL “marks his territory”
Z.