But then there's also, "I want to sit here and read books for awhile. You go back to bed and sleep some more."
In honor of Women's History Month, a selection of:
Things My Kid Has Said Which May Indicate Smallish Parenting FAILs of Various Kinds:
--I go over to her where she's scribbling away on a piece of construction paper and say, "Hey baby, whatcha doin? Can I get a kiss?" and she, without looking up or stopping her scribbling, says flatly, "I have too much dammit work to do."
--Putting on her socks, she says pleasantly and conversationally, "Pink goddamn socks today."
--As somebody ignores the rules and laws of the road and of common decency and barges into a four-way intersection out of turn, she pipes up from the backseat, "IT'S NOT YOUR TURN MADAM! YOU ARE A BAD DRIVER, LADY!"
--Picking up her apple juice and toasting me, she trills, "I have beer like Grandpa! Cheers!"
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Hat tip to the fabulous Sundry.
Things My Kid Has Said Which May Indicate Smallish Parenting FAILs of Various Kinds:
--I go over to her where she's scribbling away on a piece of construction paper and say, "Hey baby, whatcha doin? Can I get a kiss?" and she, without looking up or stopping her scribbling, says flatly, "I have too much dammit work to do."
--Putting on her socks, she says pleasantly and conversationally, "Pink goddamn socks today."
--As somebody ignores the rules and laws of the road and of common decency and barges into a four-way intersection out of turn, she pipes up from the backseat, "IT'S NOT YOUR TURN MADAM! YOU ARE A BAD DRIVER, LADY!"
--Picking up her apple juice and toasting me, she trills, "I have beer like Grandpa! Cheers!"
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Hat tip to the fabulous Sundry.
Labels: clean livin, cryin' amazacrazy, demoralizing confessions, first-world problems, half a dozen awesome, things that are great
posted by Gleemonex at 3:39 PM
5 Comments:
I dunno... I'm no parenting expert, but it sounds to me like you're doing it exactly right.
Agreed. Parenting: ur doin it rite.
She could have said, "I have beer like Mama!" So, let's put that one in the "Duh! Winning!" column. Bow-kay?!
Heh! Thanks, y'all ... I do wish she hadn't said the thing about the socks in front of her fundamentalist evangelical grandmother, but them's the breaks.
No question whose kid she is!
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