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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 160264" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We do the hand signals with difficult child 3 - volume control, or a hand (or finger) held in "stop" position indicating, "Do not talk for a second, I am paying attention to someone else."</p><p>With the younger kids, because they all went to a child care centre which counted to 5 for time-outs - I wouold hold up fingers, counting off. So I could be talking to someone, see my kids misbehaving, catch their attention with a finger snap then begin holding up fingers - it got fast compliance which in turn got some surprised responses from other people. I wish I could take the credit but the child care centre did the hard work, I just cashed in on it.</p><p></p><p>Our newest signal phrase is "I think I'll order that aerial in pink." Or something else referring to aerials. It means, "You just said something totally random and completely irrelevant."</p><p></p><p>And the kids have a phrase for, "We've heard it before, too often." It's "chocolate shale" because this is a rock layer which forms part of the Sydney Basin, it emerges to the north and the south, as well as the west. Near where we live is an emergence point (very small band) which I used to point out to the kids, obviously far too often!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 160264, member: 1991"] We do the hand signals with difficult child 3 - volume control, or a hand (or finger) held in "stop" position indicating, "Do not talk for a second, I am paying attention to someone else." With the younger kids, because they all went to a child care centre which counted to 5 for time-outs - I wouold hold up fingers, counting off. So I could be talking to someone, see my kids misbehaving, catch their attention with a finger snap then begin holding up fingers - it got fast compliance which in turn got some surprised responses from other people. I wish I could take the credit but the child care centre did the hard work, I just cashed in on it. Our newest signal phrase is "I think I'll order that aerial in pink." Or something else referring to aerials. It means, "You just said something totally random and completely irrelevant." And the kids have a phrase for, "We've heard it before, too often." It's "chocolate shale" because this is a rock layer which forms part of the Sydney Basin, it emerges to the north and the south, as well as the west. Near where we live is an emergence point (very small band) which I used to point out to the kids, obviously far too often! Marg [/QUOTE]
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