Getting evener with the kids

Today I thought of an even better way to get back at my youngest child for being irritating. For some reason all of my children have gone through a stage where they feel the need to poke me when calling my name. Since most of them are not much littler than me, they always seem to poke me either in the stomach or dircectly in between my ribs. I find almost nothing more irritating than this. I've spent 10 years saying stop poking me. So today when my youngest decided he would repeatedly poke me and go momomomomomomom, I decided I'd had it and sang "The song that never ends". This is a song from a show called lamb chop with sharry lewis that was on pbs for a very long time that nicholas and I used to watch when he was younger. It's a very simple song... This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because... this is the song.... ok so you get the hint. My husband actually joined me in about 20 verses of this song until said youngest child slapped himself in the forehead, shook it in shame then screamed STOP PLEASE STOP PLEASE STOP MOMMMMM STOP. I was at that point satisfied and in tears from laughing so hard. We've decided the next time they're all bickering we should just go ahead and burst into a few hundred verses of this and see if they get the hint. Being a parent can be so rewarding.