Naptime Negotiators Gifts

Playerpen - 'Naptime already?'

'I'm not playing 'Bride and Groom' unless you sign this pre-nuptial aggreement!'

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

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

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

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

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

"Houston, we have a problem!"

"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?'"

Sleeping at the computer.

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

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

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

If you pony is difficult to catch...take a good supply of lump sugar with you...and eat as much of it as you can.

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

"All night I dreamed I was at work. Do I get overtime for that?"

"Tonight the covers stay on my side."

"You tell me where you hid the remote and I'll tell you where I hid your phone."

'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.'

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

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

"I wish you wouldn't interrupt when we're trying to decide which channel to watch"

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

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

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

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

"We had the union meeting here because I felt this was the most appropriate place to present management's contract offer."

If you have 5 dogs, 3 will be asleep.

"I say it's genetically altered, and I say the hell with it."

Okay, little miss I-Hate-Everything-We're-Having-For-Dinner, do want the pouting or non-pouting section?

"No!"

"Here's the plan. I use white noise to cover your snoring and you use earplugs to cover the white noise."

"I'll trade you one note of loving maternal encouragement for a bag of corn chips."

"I'll read you a story but on condition that you convert and download my vinyl record collection onto this blasted thing."

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