The Post Halloween (candy) Apocalypse.
It's the trifecta of kid disasters - they were out late the night before so they are sleep deprived, the candy has left them feeling angry and amped - ready for battle with anyone and anything that even has the slightest appearance of moving in their direction. It's as though your typically calm and easy-going child has traded places with the fiercest badger known to man. And they are residing in your house.
If you share plight with any experienced mom and they will nod in a knowing way, with the corners of their lips upturned as if reveling in your pain.
The simple solution to this predicament you find yourself in is a combination of supersaturating them with water, and keeping them so busy and similarly isolated that they don't have time to focus on any one person or item for any one length of time...
How long you need to do this is dependent on how many pounds of the sweet sparkly and bright little doses of insanity have been ingested and how flushed your child is willing to let themselves become before they realize what you are doing and begin to resist in full force.
Good luck, and someday in your not too distant future, you too will acquire the upturned corners of a smile upon hearing from a newly trick-or-treat initiated mom.
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