How to get your way with me

Try a few of these, my children have:

Wait until I am on the phone and then bounce up and down saying, "mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom," until I make eye contact and shoo you towards the pantry to get whatever you wanted.

Wait until I am in the shower and then do whatever the heck you want because what can I do about it when I'm in the shower?

Hide behind the couch and eat your forbidden snack and then come and tell me you did it. And because you told me, I have to think that's progress so you go unpunished.

Give me a big cheesie smile, a hug, and an I love you, and you're pretty much in.

Use your 6th sense radar to know when I am feeling down and then cry about how everything is unfair and your life is miserable. This isn't always fool-proof, but most of the time there is middle ground to be found.

And last but not least, wait until we are in public, then defy me running around like you're playing a game. Then I just have to smile and act like I'm not going to let you have it when we do get in the car. Usually by the time I remember where I parked, and we make it out there, the steam is gone and I've blamed myself for taking you somewhere when you're tired or hungry. (Isn't that all the time?)