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Any ideas?
5 children awake, it's midnight.
3 playing mario on the wii and two watching a film.

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tell them to go to bed before your u bring out the belt and take all of their video games away.

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Originally posted by jman566
tell them to go to bed before your u bring out the belt and take all of their video games away.
I have to be nice! Two of my own and two guests (never again, one at a time, if there is a next time). I've told them to use their quiet voices if they wake the sleeping giant he'll be tired for work in the morning and that means grumpy.
One tried to laugh quietly but it was too funny for them all πŸ˜•

One is asleep now (hurray!)

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lets them stay up until 4 and then wake them at 6. you'll never have to worry about it again.

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Originally posted by yo its me
Any ideas?
5 children awake, it's midnight.
3 playing mario on the wii and two watching a film.
Pull a fuse out of your switch board and pretend it's a powercut.

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Originally posted by trev33
lets them stay up until 4 and then wake them at 6. you'll never have to worry about it again.
πŸ˜€

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Bribe them.

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Originally posted by yo its me
Any ideas?
5 children awake, it's midnight.
3 playing mario on the wii and two watching a film.
Try using, uh, you know, parenting skills.

Tell the kids they can play for 15 more minutes and then its bedtime. If they don't like it, turn the game off tell them you are the parent, they are the kid, and now it's time to do what they are told. If they still don't listen, the sleepover kids get a ride home immediately and your kids are grounded.

When did parenting become so hard?

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Originally posted by uzless
Try using, uh, you know, parenting skills.

Tell the kids they can play for 15 more minutes and then its bedtime. If they don't like it, turn the game off tell them you are the parent, they are the kid, and now it's time to do what they are told. If they still don't listen, the sleepover kids get a ride home immediately and your kids are grounded.

When did parenting become so hard?
i presume you don't have any kids?

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Originally posted by uzless
Try using, uh, you know, parenting skills.

Tell the kids they can play for 15 more minutes and then its bedtime. If they don't like it, turn the game off tell them you are the parent, they are the kid, and now it's time to do what they are told. If they still don't listen, the sleepover kids get a ride home immediately and your kids are grounded.

When did parenting become so hard?
Why complicate everything, when a bribe will werk.

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Have them read Debates or Spirituality for 10 mins.

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Have them listen to Blackamp, that should put them to sleep inside 10 minutes. πŸ˜‰

Second thought, have a mod go over the posts first.

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I don't want to be mean. I've told them 5 more minutes, then it's time to go to sleep. But they don't seam sleepy, still excited. I'm exhausted I just cleaned up all the toffee popcorn, surprisingly horible mess that stuff makes!

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Originally posted by Very Rusty
Bribe them.
Isn't that illegal? πŸ˜•

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Originally posted by yo its me
I don't want to be mean. I've told them 5 more minutes, then it's time to go to sleep. But they don't seam sleepy, still excited. I'm exhausted I just cleaned up all the toffee popcorn, surprisingly horible mess that stuff makes!
toffee popcorn + late night + friends together for a night = not going to sleep anytime soon.

trust me, let them stay up for as long as they like and then wake them up at 6am.

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