The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 30, 2013

Throw them out of bed, dad.

1 “Bucket” of water, coming right up.

In my college days, there was a very big difference between asking someone to wake you up, or to get you up. Wake you up required only a verbal acknowledgement that you were awake, while get you up meant “by any means necessary,” as in ShortStraw’s four buckets of water. And you couldn’t change your mind in the AM.

We didn’t really need four “buckets” of water!

I threaten to sing the good morning song to my son if he doesn’t get out of bed. That usually gets him moving pretty quickly.

hmmm for me, the “worst thing” was having the blankets removed from my body while a window was cracked open in winter. That was how you get kids up.NOW what I do, is I will sometimes put my alarm clock far enough away that I physically have to get up and turn it off.

My threat, three times a week, is that when I return from my workout, any kid NOT dressed and getting breakfast gets… THE SWEATY HUGS!

::snerk:: my dad always made MUCH more noise than my mom. A shout and a light switch.

Aw come on guys!

The phrase, " if you don’t get up, no more allowances." would be very effective. (Note: the words video games, television, etc…. can be substituted for alloawnces)

Based on the division of labour in the morning… Toby is right. You only get up when mom yells..Or in my case…. lies about the time. Don’t want to be late for school..@Allan ….. opening the window wouldn’t have worked on me. We didn’t get insulation for the house until the 70’s. Windows open in the summer. Frost on the inside in the winter.

I hit submit ONCE