There were no wardrobe malfunctions during the halftime show (but how you could have a wardrobe malfunction with very little clothing? HAHA).... The teams played a solid game that kept me on the edge of my seat... the power went out at the stadium (how does that even happen?)... AND the commercials were pretty good except for a few.
Big win goes to all of the writers for every commercial aired. I loved the Coca-Cola commercials with the "race" , the viva mas Taco Bell commercials (come on, nothing cuter than 80-somethings partying and carrying on like that) but my most favorite was the Dodge commercial.
There was one where we all reacted with a huge, "EWWWWWWWWWWW, GROOOOOOSSSSS!!!!" with the rest of America... Thank you Go Daddy for your horrible on air kiss. Maybe MTV will give you the worst.kiss.ever. award. I mean it was pretty gross but it got my attention. And any attention is better than none, right?
How many of you watched the Superbowl and you can remember the Go Daddy commercial because you were so disgusted by it, yet you don't remember what you had for breakfast on Saturday?
EWWW, seriously. Why must the Go Daddy commercial keep popping in my head. Hum...they are a local company. I wonder what they do. I should google them.
See what I mean? They got my attention and NOT in a good way...
Any attention is better than no attention at all... keeps coming back to my mind. Kinda like with my kids... if one is getting attention, the other one will act up to get MORE attention because they will get in trouble and have a time out... and what happens is the good child will wait for me to come back. So, how do we resolve this idea --- "any attention is better than no attention at all"...
I am going to really work hard on giving positive attention and making it count and minimizing my time with negative attention... to see if it works.
I will PRAISE my kids when they do something kind for someone else... I will do it right then and there and make them know how proud I am of their choice.
I will NOT spend over FIVE minutes when a child has an outburst, and for time out I will put them in a spot where they cannot see me (or bug their siblings).
I will encourage good choices and reward based on that. With Maddy, I will use more words like, "That was a great choice Madelynn... how does that choice make your heart feel?" She is my toughest one when it comes to getting negative attention... maybe it is being the youngest, maybe it is her age... But she is very stubborn and she can have a diva-tude. She honestly will do ANYTHING to get attention (she will even lick random strangers, or pretend to be a kangaroo....)
I will look over homework with each child and acknowledge the good things they did and actively help them with their struggle areas and homework.
I will start speaking in Spanish with Alex to help her with it and to have something for just us to share.
I will be silly from time to time and dance in the kitchen with them while making dinner just because they LOVE being silly.
Just a few fun things to do to award good behavior and give the attention to each child in the manner he/she will appreciate it most.
So kids... they are like Superbowl commercials. They just want your attention and they will get it however they can, even if they gross you out while doing it.....
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