Kid Scoop
Today was a rough day — started with a very sleepless night then worked through tantrums, sibling fights, disciplining and so on. I know that tomorrow will be a better day but there are times where I wonder if I know what I am doing. Overall, yes I think I am doing a great job but it can be hard to really believe that when you come out at the end of the day feeling like you all barely survived it.
I know there are some people who will throw their judgy nose at me for some parenting choices I make — but I’ve grown into really believing that I don’t care. Today, my kids watched 2 hours of television while I sat upstairs, alone. I needed the break. I needed the quiet space and I refuse to feel guilty about that.
I asked my friends — fellow mothers and parents what they refuse to feel guilty about even if there will be others who question their choices. I loved their answers — and would love to know how you would finish off this sentence too.
Click through to find out how my friends and Babble readers finished this sentence:
If I keep saying it like that, over and over again, will that make it come true?
My head is stuffy, my ears are plugged, I’m exhausted and I just feel…off. Like last night, I went out for margaritas and tacos with my girlfriends and after one margarita and a taco, I felt awful. I was sure I was going to have to run to the bathroom to be sick. Four glasses of water later, I felt somewhat better but the room was still kind of spinny and my stomach was not a happy camper. I’d blame it on the margarita, but we all know I have better tolerance than that. Ahem.
Anyway, I don’t have time to be sick.
Chocolate milk, anyone?
When I first compiled a list of the silliest things that kids believe, I had no less than a bajillion (yes, that is a technical term) things to choose from. I picked my favorite 10, and, as I figured, Babble’s readers came through and let me know what other amazing ones I had left off.
So, in an effort to further entertain us all, I went ahead and pulled together a few more that were left by readers on Facebook and in the original comments.
You can check them out below.
Would you like a peanut butter sandwich or turkey sandwich for lunch?
Do you want to wear your yellow shirt or blue shirt today?
Would you rather have a penis or a vagina?
Let’s play a game. One of these questions doesn’t belong, circle the question that doesn’t fit with the others. The answer should be obvious, but times are changing folks.
Apparently, for young children, the option to change their sex is becoming more feasible. Newsday reported that kids as young as 4 years old are getting sex-changes.
As I read an article on CNN about how to stop your kids from stressing, a line caught my eye:
“Children are innately wired to be happy people, and they tend to live in the moment. We as adults have so much to learn from them.”
I finished with an overwhelming feeling that I am doing okay.
Not perfect.
But certainly okay.
My parents divorced when I was five. I was one of the only kids in my elementary to have divorced parents. While I don’t remember details about a lot of it, I do remember an overwhelming number of arguments and screaming matches between my mom and dad, and later my step-mom. It was a rough situation all around and I have to believe they were doing the best they could with my sisters and my best interests at heart.
Our family lives a very simple existence. We don’t do too much and nothing we do in life is to any sort of extreme. God comes first, family a very close second, friends third and everything else falls into its appropriate place. I spend my time with like minded friends and their families and while some may say we live a sheltered existence, I say we live with a very manageable existence.
We’ve got a problem. It’s one of those delicate situations that I know I’m supposed to handle all calm and even so I don’t give my kid a complex. The good mother in me, the one that gives Anders a hug and tells him he can try again tomorrow, knows that. She does. But the bad mother in me, the one clipping Febreze coupons and doing a half dozen extra loads of laundry each week, wants to get kind of, well, scream-y. Continue reading »
Did you ever watch the movie about the dancing penguins thinking “Fun! Dancing and singing penguins!” only to get to the end and be sideswiped by a very serious message about global warming and overpopulation? Suddenly it’s not so fun to see penguins dance and you sort of feel bad for ever wanting them to boogie in the first place.
I’m all for strong messages in movies, but at least be up front about it.
With all the excitement surrounding the upcoming release of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Universal Pictures is using the attention for good, specifically for Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, which after years of mass deforestation the once enormous 330 million acre forest is down to 7% of its original size. That’s less than 24 million acres to house over 2,000 animal species and 20,000 plant species that can only survive in this forest.
By using the power of social media, the Nature Conservatory is working towards planting one billion trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, one facebook profile photo and text at a time.
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