When all else fails

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before.  Maybe even recently.  But it's so awesome it bears repeating.

When you have lost your patience and feel like you are at the end of yourself with your children, the single best thing you can do is switch to a British accent.  It doesn't matter if you have the worst British accent ever.  Your kids don't know that.  But something about switching it up like that grabs their attention and makes them focus on something other than the whining like nothing I've ever seen.

Now this may just work on my kids.  But it's at least worth a try on yours.

Pip pip cheerio old chaps!