Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
What started as an innocent on-line baby book to chronicle Jill's stay-at-home days with her children, (Lily, Ben, and Evan) quickly transformed into a vibrant community of parents, brought together by a common theme: Parenting doesn’t have to be perfect. Learn more here.
@scarymommy
NYT bestselling author of Confessions of a Scary Mommy and Motherhood Comes Naturally (And Other Vicious Lies). Fond of curse words, sarcasm and Diet Coke.
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Lily: I really need some more money. I don’t have enough.
Me: OK, you can do some chores. The playroom needs cleaning, your shoes can be straightened up and Penelope needs to be fed.
Lily: Nah, I don’t want to do those kinds of chores. I could draw you a picture. You know how people pay artists for their art?
Me: Not quite what I was thinking, but ok… How about a picture of all of us? We don’t have many of those.
Lily: No. I want to draw a supermarket.
Me: Ooookay…
I paid her a nickle for it, admitting that it was a pretty darn good supermarket. I fear that I’ve set a very poor precedent, however. She just asked me how much she could get for drawing a whole city.
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So funny! And it is a great picture. Wonder why she chose a supermarket?
Kids are just the best negotiators.
I’d still try for that picture of the whole family.
was she dreaming of wegmans at least?
LOL I love this post. Maybe you should set up an Etsy shop for her. If she sells lots of cute hand drawn cards you can charge her to advertise on your blog!
SquiggleMum’s last blog post..A Cup of Rice
Hey a nickle sounds good to me. I wish *I* could go to work and say, “Nah, I don’t wan to do that. How ’bout you pay me to do THIS?”
And that picture is pretty good!
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I am all in favor of supporting the arts!
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HAH ya gotta love a kid who has a good business sense!
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LOL! How old is she? And she already knows how to negotiate? Lookout Jill.
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Please! An artist can never be given direction! They must allow their muse to move them! ;)
Great drawing!
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Too funny! Good for her, the girl’s already figured out to make people pay her for what she loves! =)
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An entrepreneur in the making!
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Aww… That’s adorable…
But you’re in for when she’s a teenager. :D
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That is pure awesome!
Too funny. I can always tell when my girls are aching for something, b/c they start suggesting new chores to be paid to do!
You must buy a lot of fruit – that’s the only thing in the basket and she is in the fruit section!
And I love the lights in the grocery store – very vogue!
Maybe she will be an artist and get paid for her drawings!
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Bahahahahaaaaa!!!!!! That girl cracks me up. Sounds like she prepared ahead of time for that discussion.
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She is quite the entrepreneur. LOL
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Very cute.
She draws better than I do.
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Listen – you can’t dictate vision. What’s next? “Draw a yellow one that will match the living room couch?” For shame Scary Mommy…
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At least she put fruits and veggies in the cart. LOL
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Does she know artists often go hungry?
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Clever girl- she is my inspiration! Never really had the courage to say “NO, but you can pay me for….”My friend actually made her husband pay her for -not the housework- that other thing. She made a bloody fortune- if she could have drawn this well she never would have had to be her husbands hooker. GRRRL power -oh yeah!
Oh ya…been there! Although they have never asked to draw for $.
That is funny!
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Great pic!
My mom used to pay me a quarter for each piece of clothing that I would iron. After I ran out of pants and shirts in the house, I moved on to socks and underwear. She didn’t think those were worth paying for though for some reason!
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How funny. Ironically my 6 year old was coloring on the front porch yesterday and she came in the house yesterday with a dollar bill. I asked where she got it and she told me she was selling her pictures to the neighbors. Boy am I glad I know our neighbors well or I would have had to die from embarrasment!!
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clever girl! if her supermarket trolley is accurate – now i know why you can never steer them straight! fun post
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Kids have this weird idea of what a “chore” consists of.
I want to be a kid again…
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Just think how successful she could be if she had an agent.
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Oh boy. See, this is why I’m not a parent. What do you do in this situation? Give her the ‘that’s why they call it work’ speech? Or let her push to find her own ways to make money? Raise a practical, grounded kid who might not follow her dreams? Or raise a dreamer who might lack a work ethic?
My god, how in the world do you mothers sleep at night? I just don’t know how you do it …
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I will hire her to draw pictures for the Birthday cards Kaish has to send. Just recently he has been protesting about drawing pictures. What in the world is going on? : ).
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I think that you are in trouble.
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Just a nickel? Wow, she should have held out. That is worse at least a quarter.
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Your daughter is beginning to learn the art of negotiation. It can be annoying at times but it is a very important life skill. I am very impressed by her response. My little girl’s favorite thing to do now is to ask for two of what she wants.
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Lmao! I loved that you actually paid her for her artwork. <3
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I haven’t done that when I was a kid.
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I think she deserves 50 bucks for this drawing – it’s great! Wow, she’s got talent! :)
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Ahh, that is too funny! You have a smart cookie on your hands :)
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