Goodnight Mood

Goodnight Mood*

In the big beige room
There was a rocking chair
And a kangaroo
And the entrance of —

A boy with a bad attitude

And there were three unread books and two angry looks

And one crying brother
And a frustrated mother

And a noisy timeout
And a definite pout

And a shove that was rough and spilled bins full of stuff

And a cross-armed daddy who was sighing “enough!”

Goodnight brood

Goodnight mood

Goodnight boy with the bad attitude

Goodnight silly fight
Over kangaroos

Goodnight books
And angry looks

Goodnight brother
And goodnight mother

Goodnight sighs
And rolls of the eyes

Goodnight timeout
And goodnight pout

Goodnight shoves
And being too rough

And goodnight to the daddy sighing “enough!”

Goodnight frowns

Goodnight glare

Goodnight whining everywhere

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*If your children, unlike mine, didn’t make you read Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown until you wanted to weep, this will make far less sense to you.  But if you have children at all, I feel sure you will still recognize the end-of-day meltdown.