Super-Annoying Kid Habits.

You know those habits that kids have that are not only annoying, but dangerous? They just don’t see what COULD happen. The staircase, you know the one you use daily to move your body from the first floor to the second, usually toting a laundry basket?  Yea, that’s the one, well at our house it’s also used for an indoor slide in the winter, they come flying down the stairs on their tiny butts, not realizing that there is a steel door near the bottom of the stairs. “But Mom, it was an accident!”

The staircase spindles are also a popular attraction. I usually catch one of kids hanging on the spindles as if they were going to bend it back and use it like a bow to catapult something in the next room, most likely to attack surprise an innocent sibling.

To kids, the inside of the house is like a playground. One of my all time favorites is when you ask them to get a snack from the pantry and they thought you might have said,”Sweetie could you just swing back and forth on the doorknob until the hinges rip out of the wall?

Another accident waiting to happen is the Pergo slide. Little Dude is the champ in this category, sliding more than 30 feet from the family room to the kitchen in search of that perfect snack. Don’t even think about crossing in front of him.

Do your kids have issues with sitting on chairs? I know it’s a weird thing, but my kids don’t sit, they perch on the edge of the chair, while eating dinner, in fact any time they approach a chair, they perch. Sometimes I see so much space between the desk and the chair, it looks like a canyon. They don’t even realize they have just spent two hours perched on their toes playing computer games.

Dude you got your snuggie on backwards!

Last year my son got a snuggie for Christmas, one that was way too long for him, he didn’t notice that when he was walking downstairs looking like Obi-Wan-Kenobi, carrying his laptop, mouse and power cord, that there was any chance that he could trip. “But Mom, I’m not gonna trip, really!”

Thanks, Mom and Dad!

I’m thinkin’ if we could just squeeze one of these playsets into the family room somewhere, just for the winter, our house may have a chance of surviving, oh and our kids too.