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@Catllar Kids don't bother me, surprisingly as grumpy as I tend to look, which is why I think I wind up with a lot of them. When I have had several for the final try on, I get as loud as they do and explain it all. I let them move, tell them not to knock over the flowers and mind the table. I can also whistle loud, and can hail a taxi in NYC with it. And I am not afraid to use it...I can't yell anyway, so whistling at my own kids is easier then losing my voice.
But I have my own who does it, and the 8 year old is a lot better. (Thank you, try the veal.)
Usually, I l give general instructions: "Check to make sure the name tag matches your child, put zipper to the side, tag goes in back, the hook and eye will close the top part like a wire button and make sure it pulls tight where you'll feel like a click. When you get it on, I got to see what you look like and make sure you are perfect! So give me a few to take you all in before we get to work, ok! *clap, enthuse*". Then I wait, there is always one or 6 that needs help getting it on, and I go handle that. And then I work from a list, a couple minutes of showing off, and I call one kid off the clipboard, and go on. Kid and mom come, get kid on the platform and in front of the mirror, talk to them, answer while I do whatever or explain what I am doing, tell them to stop for a second while I do XYZ and then thank them, tell the child they were wonderful! What a good job of standing still (and they don't, I mean, like ever).
I personally have found that in a group by streamlining some of it and making it a routine for the others, moms leave me alone to do my job. But I don't make them stand still the whole time, just for seconds at a time if I can't catch them still enouhg between moving and admiring themselves. But I have to do that with the adults, too! And making it seem like old hat, under control, same old, same old...it keeps the moms at bay, too.
Boys don't want to be there, girls want to do it all...
And I don't even LIKE kids.