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ALERT!! There are wild children on the loose and they
will not stop for nothing to annoy you. They are
slowly gaining on you and are invading your personal
life. They're not just gonna disappear but these 6
tips could get them to finally back off. This is your
only chance so I would take it.

DEPRIVE DESSERT
Cakes! Cookies! Candy! Some of the
things we love most in the world. I
mean everybody loves having a
mouth watering sweet sometimes,
but some people take their obsession
with dessert way too far. There's only
one culprate and that's little kids.
Kids and Candy
Ya, i’m talking about those crazy
maniacs who run around causing
chaos in every way. This gets even
worse when it comes to candy. Little
kids lose their literal minds. This
drives us crazy, but have we ever
considered that we could actually use
this against them.
An End To The Madness
You probably want to know how.
Well, it’s actually quite simple, all
you have to do is this. When your
siblings are bothering you, pretend
they're throwing pillows at you and
elbowing you in the gut. You're
probably in pain and greatly
annoyed. You probably think this is
never going to end, but all you
actually have to do is
say this “ You will lose dessert if you
don't stop”. Right when you say this
they will freeze up and stare at you
intently. Right when you say this they
will freeze up and stare at you
intently.
The Follow Through
Make sure to look serious even if
they get on their knees and are
begging with tears pouring down
their eyes for you to not take away
dessert. Tell them then that if they
leave you alone, clean up their mess
that they could earn it back. If this
goes as planned, they should leave
you alone but if it doesn't just
threaten you will take it away for
another day or they can’t earn what
they already lost back.
This will leave you in a great position
to go forward with what you want to
do without having any annoying kids
in your way.

PROMISES
We make promises all the time right and there
are either 2 choices you can make involving
these promises. Go through with them or
don’t. You have to make this same choice for
this tip too.
Play Time All the Time
Your siblings always want you to play with
them and let them be the center of attention,
but sometimes you can’t and they just don’t get
that. They might throw a fit or even bother you
so much that you lose your mind. You can
solve this problem though, by doing one
simple thing. Making a promise.
The Lifesaver
When your sibling wants to do something with
you but you just can’t right now promise them
you will do it later or at another specific or
nonspecific time. This is where it gets tricky.
You can either go through with that promise
or don’t. If you go through with it then your
sibling is happy and so are you. We all know
that sometimes we just don’t want to go
through with it because we're tired or such.
The trick to not going through with your
promise is constantly holding it off for
different things such as sports until they
eventually forget about it. Be careful though
because some kids remember everything and
will make sure you go through with your
promise.
“In the end promises
are just words”
Forgive & forget,
because life goes on

TOYS AWAY FOR THE DAY
Little kids love toys, definitely the new or
super cool ones. Some toys are probably
their prized possessions. This is an area of
weakness that you can take advantage of.
SAY BYE, BYE
Siblings fight all the time and being
another kid does not give you much
authority to stop the madness. When it
comes to telling them if they don’t stop
that you will take away their toy though,
your status automatically changes. Most
kids would stop then and beg you not to
take away their toy but some kids will keep
going and pretend like they didn’t even
hear you. That's when you strike.
GO ALL THE WAY
Go through with what you said and take
away a toy. Make sure you keep in mind a
toy that they actually care about. Once you
take it away they might start trying to grab
it from you or through a fit. This becomes
annoying so to stop this tell them that they
can earn it back later if they calm down.
Make sure you actually give it back at the
end so in the future they trust your word.
Odds are this tactic will work.
“Toys are
children’s
words and
play is their
language”

IT’S IMPORTANT
Life can be stressful sometimes like when you
just got a lot of homework assigned and it’s due
tomorrow! You and your parents probably
understand that getting your homework done is
very important but your younger siblings
probably don’t.
CRAZY SIBLINGS
They're going to be constantly bothering you and
complaining that you never play with them. This
probably makes you feel bad but they're really
just trying to trick you, so this is the way to get
them out of your hair once and for all. Just make
what you're doing sound extremely important.
Just say something like I have
been outside all day and just want
to relax or something like I have
to start homework in a few
minutes and this is my only time
to relax. Some siblings will
complain but fall for it. Just make
sure you somewhat go through
with the time period of relaxation
and such or they will figure out
you tricked them.
GET YOUR ACT ON
By saying things like if you don’t finish it you will
get a bad grade and by talking in a nervous voice.
You can do this with things that are not really
important like watching TV too.
Annoying
siblings, am I
right?

CRY BABY
When we think of people crying, the first
thought we have probably goes to little kids
who cry all the time. Older kids cry too
though but when little kids cry everybody
starts to feel bad for them and most of the
time they end up giving in to what they want.
This almost never happens when older kids
cry. Little do you know you can use this same
tactic in a different way though.
A END TO THE MADNESS
For instance, let's say your siblings were
jumping all over you. They weren’t hurting
you, it was just very annoying. Well in this
scenario you could start acting like they're
hurting you by dramatically acting in pain
and crying. They should fall for it and get
right off you or your parents will intervene
since you're hurt and make your job much
easier. Make sure to keep up the act for a
while until they apologize and finally leave
you alone. You can do this for many other
scenarios in slightly different ways too. I’m
telling you, it works.
“It’s okay
to cry as
long as
you're
faking it”