Since being a mom I have become obsessed with just a few things:
1--outlets being covered
2--the toilet being closed
3--schedules
4--doing everything I can to ensure a healthy "sleep" environment
5--my floors being clean
6--the tub being clean
7--television shows being educational
8--shielding her from violence on TV
9--talking to her endlessly about everything
10-saving for her college education
11-safe driving
12-making sure she's social
13-making sure her finger nails are cut and clean
14-keeping sugar products to a minimum
15-keeping her away from coin money
16-choking hazards
Some common choking hazards are:
1-popcorn
2-raisins
3-grapes
4-hot dogs
5-hard candy
6-coin money
Now that you have all of that background information, here is a quick story.
Another family party went down this weekend. Several of the above mentioned choking hazards were served. (except the coins)
Between that, the in ground pool, and the large elevated deck complete with steep killer stairs, I'd say my nerves were tinkering between a 12 and 15 on a scale of 1-10. Boy, parties are just not what they used to be.
Can't anyone have one in a large room with some padded walls?
Anyway, Meg is aware that there are all kinds of good food items around her, so I quickly
chose the grapes, and instead of half-ing them like some parenting books recommend, I decided to sixteenth them, just to be on the safe side. Hey, if the host had a blender in site, I'd have been all over it.
Alas, I take to cutting up the grapes inside the kitchen in miniscule pieces and putting them into a tiny, unbreakable bowl and hand to Meg.
Enter sister in law and same age child. She proceeds to walk up to the grapes, grab a "vine" and hand them off to daughter. Meg looks at me, the bowl, her cousin, and her grapes and immediately goes for her vine. Child is afraid of my lunatic piggy, and drops grapes to run to her mommy. Sister in law hands vine to Meg and gets new vine for her daughter. Now I have to interfere and look like the maniac that only my husband truly knows.
After some quick diversions, I manage to get vine out of her hand and re-introduce beautiful and tasty grapes in bowl. It works!!
A short time later, my sister law is showing the crowd her daughter's new "habit", which apparently they find completely charming. Their daughter likes to scour the floors in their house for loose change and stash it all in her pockets. Thank god my husband caught me before my knees gave out.
There are certainly different kinds of parenting, but she breaks the mold.
Later, her daughter enjoyed a hot dog and popcorn as her side dish, while I, the weak at heart continued to break up everything into a zillion pieces and tried to keep the two away from each other. Imagine how this will be when one of them is thirteen and discovers make-up, booze and condoms!
1--outlets being covered
2--the toilet being closed
3--schedules
4--doing everything I can to ensure a healthy "sleep" environment
5--my floors being clean
6--the tub being clean
7--television shows being educational
8--shielding her from violence on TV
9--talking to her endlessly about everything
10-saving for her college education
11-safe driving
12-making sure she's social
13-making sure her finger nails are cut and clean
14-keeping sugar products to a minimum
15-keeping her away from coin money
16-choking hazards
Some common choking hazards are:
1-popcorn
2-raisins
3-grapes
4-hot dogs
5-hard candy
6-coin money
Now that you have all of that background information, here is a quick story.
Another family party went down this weekend. Several of the above mentioned choking hazards were served. (except the coins)
Between that, the in ground pool, and the large elevated deck complete with steep killer stairs, I'd say my nerves were tinkering between a 12 and 15 on a scale of 1-10. Boy, parties are just not what they used to be.
Can't anyone have one in a large room with some padded walls?
Anyway, Meg is aware that there are all kinds of good food items around her, so I quickly
chose the grapes, and instead of half-ing them like some parenting books recommend, I decided to sixteenth them, just to be on the safe side. Hey, if the host had a blender in site, I'd have been all over it.
Alas, I take to cutting up the grapes inside the kitchen in miniscule pieces and putting them into a tiny, unbreakable bowl and hand to Meg.
Enter sister in law and same age child. She proceeds to walk up to the grapes, grab a "vine" and hand them off to daughter. Meg looks at me, the bowl, her cousin, and her grapes and immediately goes for her vine. Child is afraid of my lunatic piggy, and drops grapes to run to her mommy. Sister in law hands vine to Meg and gets new vine for her daughter. Now I have to interfere and look like the maniac that only my husband truly knows.
After some quick diversions, I manage to get vine out of her hand and re-introduce beautiful and tasty grapes in bowl. It works!!
A short time later, my sister law is showing the crowd her daughter's new "habit", which apparently they find completely charming. Their daughter likes to scour the floors in their house for loose change and stash it all in her pockets. Thank god my husband caught me before my knees gave out.
There are certainly different kinds of parenting, but she breaks the mold.
Later, her daughter enjoyed a hot dog and popcorn as her side dish, while I, the weak at heart continued to break up everything into a zillion pieces and tried to keep the two away from each other. Imagine how this will be when one of them is thirteen and discovers make-up, booze and condoms!
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