Wouldn’t you love to be me:

I got my sleepy rear out of bed at 7:45 this morning. By this point my children had already: gotten up and made their beds, gotten dressed, helped each other straighten their rooms, made themselves cereal and then rinsed their dishes in the sink, and brushed their hair and teeth.

All of this by the time I got up.

Are my children possessed? Nope. I found one of the most awesome things a mom can buy. Seriously, I know I’m going to sound like a commercial… but holy crap, this works.  I found something called Children’s Miracle Music. I can’t sing it’s praises enough. It’s a “system” that comes with two CD’s (one for morning and one for bedtime) and a dry erase board with a chart. When my kids wake up in the morning, they start the CD themselves. It guides them through their morning “points”. They get a point for making their bed, a point for getting dressed, ect. They race the music on the Cd’s, for instance: “Point number one is make your bed. You have two short songs.” When they are all finished, they record their points on the dry erase board. Once they reach 100 points, they get whatever “prize” they’ve written. (My kids generally write something like : “Go get ice cream with Dad”)

I’m telling you, everyone with kids should get this. It’s $30 and I gladly would have paid double. Each dry erase board accomodates up to eight kids. In my opinion, kids as young as three or four would be able to do this with a little parental assistance, eventually working up to doing everything themselves. My five year old can do the entire thing on her own, and my eight year old–who is at the stage where he thinks that most things are “dumb”–thinks the Cd’s are cool. It’s really quite amazing. The only draw back I have seen is that my kids eventually get a little sick of the same songs each day. But according to the site, there is new music coming out soon.

Buy this!

3 Comments »

1. Sounds like a pretty neat thingy. I may have to pick it up!

   Comment by Leslie — June 12, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

2. Could this work for our husbands too….

   Comment by Casie — June 12, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

3. I just ordered mine!! Thanks for posting it. You told me the website once but I forgot it. Anyway, yeah!!

   Comment by Sam — June 12, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

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