I admit it – I’ve done it. When my kids acted like jerks, I suggested that they were going to get bricks and onions in their stockings. And you know what? It worked. It stopped them in mid-meltdown.
"But I don’t like onions," my then-3-year-old son said.
"Then pick up your blocks," I said.
Variations of this scenario have gone on at Ye Olde Snyder household in early winter for years now. And even though the parenting books warn against bribing kids at any time, bribing seems to be the most tempting – and let’s face it, the most effective – during the month of December.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
