Why is it every time the phone rings, I become magnetized and my children are the magnets, following me while screaming "I talk," "Is it for me?" "I hold it," etc., grabbing for the phone and crying when they're not allowed to talk on the phone because it's someone important for their Dad. The kids are usually playing all over the house but as soon as they hear that b-rrrrring, there they are! So I run around the house, trying to find a quiet spot and hide in the bathroom but the crying and door pounding echoes too much. Out of desperation, I once again say "hold on, I still can't hear you," sneak into my closet and stand behind my dresses where the clothes slightly insulate the mayhem outside only to find the person has hung up because she hasn't heard a word I've said the entire phone call.
Maybe we should study this phenomenon because I have heard that I'm not the only mom who has experienced it. We'll call it phone magnet syndrome and develop some sort of pharmaceutical solution and make millions! Hee! Hee!
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I have the same syndrome! I even have it in reverse. When the kids are all busy somewhere and I think "Great! The coast is clear-I will call so and so..." I pick up the phone and whoosh, they all come running and want me to talk to them about the science project we finished a month ago or the cool thing they saw outside three weeks before last Christmas...weird I tell you!
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