Ten Commandments for Alarm Clock Users
1. Thou shalt always choose an alarm that sounds nothing like your partner’s cell phone ring.
2. Thou shalt never set the alarm too early to allow for snoozing.
3. Thou shalt always turn off the alarm before it wakes your partner.
4. Thou shalt never knock everything off the nightstand while attempting to silence the alarm.
5. Thou shalt always keep the alarm within reach.
6. Thou shalt never snooze more than once.
7. Thou shalt always remember to set the alarm before going to bed.
8. Thou shalt never turn a light on in the middle of the night to set a forgotten alarm.
9. Thou shalt always turn the alarm off before going to bed when it will not be required the next morning.
10. Thou shalt never snooze the alarm then carry it across the room and leave it there while taking a shower forcing your partner to stumble around trying to silence it and tripping in the dark making a racket then innocently asking “What’s wrong?”
Best and Worst Preschool Television
Busy B is getting older and is starting to actually pay attention to those crazy cartoons on the television. It’s fun for me to see him dancing and singing along, or at least trying to sing along, to his favorite shows. Unfortunately a lot of those shows drive me bonkers so I decided to make my lists of the best and worst of the kid oriented shows I end up absorbing during the day. The best are shows that I don’t mind sitting and watching with BB on my lap while those I’m naming the worst are shows that I will turn off even if I’m not in the room, or even in the house.
The Best
Yo Gabba Gabba
The Backyardigans
Olivia
Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends
Lazy Town
Little Einsteins
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
3-2-1 Penguins
Happy Monster Band
Handy Manny
The Worst
Ni Hao Kai-Lan
Max and Ruby
Imagination Movers
Charlie and Lola
Elliot Moose
Elmo’s World
Barney and Friends
Little Bill
Bunnytown
Caillou
These are not in any particular order because that would just be way too much work. I’m already feeling strained from providing links to each of the shows in case you see something you’re not familiar with and would like to check it out. Obviously everyone’s tastes differ so let me know in the comments if you disagree or want to add a few of your own.
