Hahaha.. that is GREAT!! I used to tell my kids that their words or actions said such thing - though not quite as bad as that. But I never thought to make them hold a sign up and tell others. What a great way to drive home a very serious point. Better to hold up a carboard sign one day than to sit in jail later on.
Thanks for the great ping.
Hey, I just had an idea - I should make a sign for the infractions of my son and his best friend I told you about! Make them stand at the end of the driveway with signs. One could hold one saying
"HI! We're 4 & 5 years old and we like to break things! We want to be sent to our rooms forever!"
while the other's lists the destruction -
"This month we've
1. bashed a wiffle ball bat to death
2. gotten countless toys stuck up in trees
3. broken 3 wooden train track pieces
4. tried to break a ceiling fan with projectile objects
5. poked 3 large holes in 2 window screens
6. displaced every bit of sand from sandbox into yard
7. thrown dozens of crabapples onto the roof (and probably into the gutters), into the yard, on the porch, into the garage
8. scattered mulch all over every cement surface available
9. peed in the cat's litter box
10. practiced the fine art of using mild bathroom words inappropriately (and finding it hilarious while no one else does)."
:)
Actually I'd better go check on them - they've been left unattended in the back yard for all of ten minutes. I expect to hear breaking glass at any moment.