Being a practical and efficient woman I have to say Mum’s voice is the choice I have been making with my 2 year old lately over my normal voice.

I am sure all you mums reading this understand exactly what I am talking about when I say, Mum’s voice.

Mum’s voice is the half scream, very direct voice that snaps our kids in to line almost instantly.

Where as normal voice when it comes to parenting I find you repeat yourself in this voice about five times. After the fifth time you still are not guaranteed a positive result. Talk about a time waster!

With my daughter the second Mum’s voice comes out asking her the exact same thing as I was asking with normal voice she jumps to and obeys. Now don’t get me wrong I do feel Mum’s voice has a expiry date. I’m thinking between 2-4 years old. After that the basic ground rules for existence should be established. Some examples:

• Please do not draw on our couch with a permanent marker!
• Please do not use the toilet brush to hit our family dog!
• And my latest favourite. Please do not fill the toilet with a whole roll of toilet paper then flush it and flood our bathroom!

Normal voice in explaining the extreme ‘that’s not cool’ of these situations seems like a complete waste of time. I mean to be a multi tasking mum we need to be efficient right?!

So ladies when that Mum’s voice is required, even though we hate the sound of it ourselves, I say, it’s ok.

In two years from now you will have many new and exciting challenges with these little ones!

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