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Our IS department has a monthly lunch out together to celebrate that month's birthdays. Our end of the table had a couple of parents at it. After fielding my 32nd call of the morning from my 3 (home-from-school-on-xmas-break-can't-get-we-all-just-get-along) oldest children requesting mediation services, the conversation turned to punishment and redirection techniques. The non-parents among us (well, just Biz-P really) started taking notes. "Pit them against each other, not you." "Let them choose each others punishment." "Do not be afraid of the phrase 'death match'."

OoRah told us he had recently started making his girls write out the US Constitution. He'd give them an Article or Section and they'd have to copy it out. I piped up that we used a similar technique, but that our little offenders had to write what they did. "I will not kick my sister" 100 times each or "I will not start fires" 500 times each.

The conversation continued until a few moments later, when OoRah handed me this napkin:



Then all conversation stopped, as we were all laughing too hard. Only at an IS lunch could a joke like this go over so completely and so well.

However, I'm not sure which is sadder funnier:

A. That he actually wrote it down.

B. That I immediately declared that I had to blog about it.

C. That he realized he forgot to increment i and asked for the napkin back to fix the bug in his code.

D. That I let him fix it because leaving an endless loop would have bothered me intensely.