Bedtime Negotiator Mugs

'All right. I'll get forty winks, but not one wink more.'

"No, no, boy. It's Tuesday. Wednesdays are your nights to sleep on the big bed."

"After the fourth reading of 'Knuffle Bunny,' Ed went 'old school'... You are getting very, very sleepy... so sleepy..."

"Houston, we have a problem!"

'I'm pretty sleepy tonight, Dad - could we just skip ahead to the chase scene?'

'Early to bed and early to rise. I like a saying with an escape clause.'

'Early to bed and early to rise? It's a deal.'

"Can't I stay up for the news just this once? I'm on it."

"I realize you want to enjoy every last minute of summer, but it's not possible to stay awake until school starts."

"But I'm not even tir..."

"I'm just going to ring the doorbell so I have a chance of a spot in the bed."

"I'll go back to school if you go back to the office."

'Broccoli is biodegradable, you know, in case you want to throw it out before I eat it.'

"Instead of taking a bath can I wear a flea collar?"

"Of course, I'm willing to negotiate. . ."

"No, four glasses of water was enough. . . now I have to go to the bathroom!"

'But I'm not tired yet!!!'

'What if I promise not to look?'

'Sorry!...Recalculating.'

"Miss Rogers, Sally Green. Is it true my son's research project is 'the effect of too much television on a typical ten-year-old?'"

Playerpen - 'Naptime already?'

'What do you mean, it's good for me and I'll like it? That sounds like a contradiction in terms.'

Oh, come on. Don't think of this as 'going to bed.' Think of this as a short break between nighttime naughtiness and morning mayhem.

"Must you bring your work to bed?"

"Tonight the covers stay on my side."

'Stop biting your nails son and get to sleep!'

"We're offering twenty million plus incentives over a four-year period, Mrs. Morton. Can Timmy come out and play?"

'But I can't go to bed yet, Mom. Kids watch an average of seven hours of TV a day, and I've only watched five and a half hours.'

"See you in the morning."

'Spider-Man does too take baths!'

"Please! Just let me stay up one more hour. Then I promise I'll fall asleep right here in front of the TV."

"When you're President, then you can watch six hours of television a day."

'I don't care whether you think it's an affront to your 'Human Rights', I still want you to go to the naughty corner!'

"You're right. I should go outside and play. Buy me a laptop, and I will."

If you have 5 dogs, 3 will be asleep.