It’s a Never-Ending Battle for Cleanliness
If you’re a parent, I imagine that one of the most frustrating things in the world is when you carefully clean your house in preparation for company coming over, and then in the hour between when you finish cleaning and when your company arrives, your kids manage to utterly destroy the house again.
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So I like this mom’s suggestion of just making them live in the backyard until dinner starts. It’s probably more humane than my suggestion, which is putting them all in those harnesses that you put on toddlers to keep them from getting lost at a zoo or at the mall and keeping them on a short leash all morning.