HOW TO FORCE YOUR CHILDREN TO DO NICE THINGS FOR EACH OTHER AND NOT GET ARRESTED

With our monsters, especially, it seems to be ever a Herculean task these days to get them to do something nice for one another that doesn't have some sort of benefit boomeranging back on them.

So, partially because I was mostly anti-Valentine's Day this year, and partly because, well, I just forgot to take them to buy gifts for one another, and partly because no children -- NO CHILDREN -- need as many THINGS as these children have, I decided they both could stand a little lesson in humility in the gift giving and receiving arena, and instructed them on the fine art of making coupons.

NO! NOT **THOSE COUPONS**, PEOPLE!! Come on, now. I may cuss a little, but this is still a family show, for crissakes!

So, here's what they came up with (I thought they actually did pretty well -- and with only a teensy bit of "coaching," too):