Top 5 Strategies For Enlisting Help With
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5) Explain to them they will just have to miss a day of school – it can’t be helped.  Then move out of the way as they bolt to their room to pack.

4) Offer to fly them across the country to a big city.  Just don’t tell them until they are on the plane that they no longer show movies on cross-country flights.  And they’re going to have to pack their own snacks.

3) Buy them Book #4 in The Twilight series at the airport.   It’s the new hot series – sort of the next “Harry Potter.”  I know you probably haven’t heard of it.  I hadn’t.  Just trust me on this.  Of course what kids today don’t know is that it is basically a remake of the sixties TV soap opera  Dark Shadows!

2)  Pay $10 a day for Internet at the hotel.  I know it’s outrageous, but believe me, you DO NOT want to spend four nights in a small hotel room with a teen who can’t check their Facebook profile.  It wouldn’t be pretty.  (OK I admit it, I would have been a bear without it as well!)

1) Arrange for the host of the Amazing Race TV show, Phil Keoghan to stay at your hotel.  Just when the crankies were about to set in as we packed ourselves like sardines into the hotel shuttle bus to endure the long flight home, who shows up but TV host Phil Keoghan from the Amazing Race.  I couldn’t have planned things any better if I had slipped his agent $1000.  He stood around outside our van, chatting to his driver…and my daughter got take it all in within eight feet.  I am now officially a hero for having taken her to Philadelphia.  Wait till all her friends hear about this on Facebook!

P.S. I love you Lacey –
and I couldn’t have done it without you! 

Below: Lisa & Lacey,            Right:  Phil Keoghan