Kids are smart.
They can usually figure out how to get what they want. I wonder how long it took daughter Mindy to decide she had enough ammo to pop the idea about having her 11th birthday party in a hotel. She waited until I was up to my nosehair in housework before she explained how it would be less work. I remembered how much work Mindy s last slumber party was for me. Not a room in the house was spared a disaster.