Bad Mommy
Posted by: , September 8, 2009 in 1:39 pm
The lazy days of summer are gone and the Back To School industry has arrived with all of the crap that goes with it. You can’t just send your child on the first day of school anymore with the clothes on their back. It seems like days of preparation are needed. First you’ve got to get all your school supplies. I don’t know about your school but we had about 20 items that were needed for my 7 year old! Did he really need 10 glue sticks for the first day of school? 8 “strong plastic” folders? Eraser board markers? A clip board? And then there’s the enticement of a new backpack, new lunchbox, new thermos, etc. Because how can you put all these brand spanking new supplies into last year’s backpack! (Don’t tell anyone but we did.)
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Posted by: , August 4, 2009 in 1:48 pm
Last night on Showtime’s WEEDS, the main character (Nancy) finds herself in a bind when her breast pump breaks in the bathroom of a restaurant. ?She enlists the help of her brother-in-law (Andy) to suck out some milk and relieve the pressure. ?(The episode is aptly named, Suck and Spit) First of all, let me start by saying that I breast fed two babies for over a year, suffered engorgement many times and ?NEVER considered asking my husband to suck my breasts! ?I especially wouldn’t ask someone I wasn’t romantically involved with. ?And believe me, I’m not a prude. I don’t know anyone else who would stoop to that level. ?
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Posted by: carol, June 22, 2009 in 2:48 pm
This article about a mother on a junk food crusade got me riled again about the situation at my son’s school. ?They have such a strict food policy that you can’t bring store bought cupcakes for a birthday party – you have to bake it yourself with various replacements like little sugar, apple sauce and fake butter. ?The Halloween party is candy-less (sad) and the end of the year party features apples slices instead of ice cream (depressing). I’m the first person to support a crusade against child obesity but things are getting out of control. ?Everything should be in moderation. ?Withholding desert as a punishment only messes with kids relationships with food. ?And forbidding something completely makes a child only want it more. ?I grew up in a house that had pita bread and grape nuts. ?I would go to friends houses and scarf twinkies. ?I give my kids lots of healthy food and throw in some sugar every now and then. ?And ya’ know what, sometimes they turn me down. ?Our school removing the cake and cookies from celebrations only serves to empower the sugar. ?I took the power away from the sugar in our home and so should the lady in this article. ?She obviously has let it consume her life!
Posted by: Bad Mommy, May 2, 2009 in 9:56 am
I have been having major problems with my 3 year old at pre-school. It seems that he is too “busy” and doesn’t “listen to instruction” and “won’t sit in circle” for long periods of time. The teacher he has is very strict. She has the room divided up into centers and there can only be 2 children at a center at a time. For some reason my son doesn’t get that rule. I don’t blame him, I don’t understand it either. I mean, how do you tell a little kid that he can’t play with the trains with his two friends. He’s not agressive, he’s not angry, he just does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. They tell me he’s “impulsive”. WHAT DO THEY EXPECT FROM HIM! HE’S ONLY 3 YEARS OLD!!! There are many theories about how schools are designed for girls. Teaching is geared towards quiet, mellow children who can sit still and listen for long periods of time. Teachers are mostly women. Active behavior (usually found in boys) is discouraged and looked down on. My son is only 3 and he’s already been labeled.
Posted by: BadMommy, April 25, 2009 in 1:07 pm
My son is 3 years old and loves to drive me crazy by NOT EATING. Well not eating healthy that is. He will eat chicken nuggets, french fries and pizza. But I’m happy to get something in his stomach, as long as a few food groups are represented. Anyway, I was out to lunch with some friends and our kids yesterday. One of the moms gave her daughter sushi! (not raw fish) And the other kid was eating cut up steak. Meanwhile my son must have eaten three french fries. So I made a joke about my son being such a picky eater. One mom (who I don’t know very well) says to me, “Kids will eat what you give them so you shouldn’t offer bad choices.” Wow, this woman obviously should not be wasting her time eating lunch with people like me, she should be traveling the world spreading her parenting wisdom. I tried to poke fun at her. I said, “I guess I don’t think that french fries are that bad… potatoes are vegetables you know.” I laughed at my own joke but said mom didn’t even crack a smile. She looked at me like I was failing miserably at nourishing my child. Meanwhile her kid was the one eating steak so I said, “You know that steak clogs your arteries…”
Posted by: BadMommy, April 10, 2009 in 9:39 pm
I wanted to share this with you because I can’t believe the response I’ve been getting. I put an ad on a local message board to find some part-time help. I requested someone who could watch my two children and also do some housework during their down time – naps, school, etc. I offered $10 an hour – for 4 days – which is what I pay my sitter right now. (she’d stay but she’s having a baby). I was shocked by the response! Here is a sampling of the hate mail I’ve been getting:
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Posted by: BadMommy, April 1, 2009 in 9:44 am
I win the bad mommy award for this week. It was 6:30 AM and to be fair I was half asleep when my 4 year old son told me that he wanted to wear his pajamas to school. I told him to put his clothes on. Then he said that all the kids are wearing pajamas to school and I said, “ha, ha, very funny, get your clothes on.” Needless to say, he went to school with his normal clothes on. We have a driving drop off at our school so I didn’t see anyone in his class when I brought him. But when I picked him up I saw his teacher come out in a full nightgown and slippers. Then a friend of his emerged in spiderman sleepies. Uh oh. Then he came out and happily jumped into the car. I told his teacher I didn’t know it was pajama day and she pointed out that it was on the calendar. Who checks the calendar every day? Apparently every other mom in the class. I asked her why they didn’t call me when he showed up without pajamas. I would’ve come back with them. She told me that he announced he didn’t want to wear his pajamas. So basically my son covered for me. How sad is that! Yup, bad mommy award.
Posted by: Bad Mommy, March 24, 2009 in 11:38 pm
Is it wrong to enjoy a sick day? My son had the stomach flu and so I kept him home from school (first grade). He was throwing up all day so it wasn’t a hard decision to make. The next day it was a little more tricky…he was fine. He woke up in a good mood, wolfed down his breakfast and asked if he had to go to school. It was 7:30 AM, I had a lot of work to do that day and thought about all of his commitments. I would have to pack him lunch, snack, make sure he did his homework, rush out of the house to get him to school, pick him up from school early (it was a half day), take home him and his friend, give them snacks then take them to Tae Kwon Do, drive his friend home, make dinner, and the list continues. If he stayed home sick I would not have to do any of the above. I would just let him veg in front of the television all day (getting his strength back) while I was a productive mother without the usual distractions. I wouldn’t even have to make dinner (”I couldn’t drag him to the grocery store, he was too sick!”) and could order in my favorite Chinese food. It was a no brainer. He got to stay home and watch a Super Friends marathon and I finally got the time to pack away my winter clothes. Did I feel a little guilty? Nah…
Posted by: Bad Mommy, February 26, 2009 in 10:20 pm
I received a call from a parent in my son’s first grade class asking for a playdate. I said sure. I asked my son if he wanted to play with the little boy and he was excited. All was good until we got there. The little boy opened the door and looked at my son. They both didn’t look happy. Then the boy yelled out to his mother in distress, “I didn’t mean BIG Jason, I meant LITTLE Jason!!” My son, the unwanted Jason, looked at me and said, “I don’t know this boy. Please don’t leave me here!” and he started to cry. The mother finally emerged and we realized that the boys were in fact not in the same class. There are three different kindergarten classes. She had mistakenly called our home instead of the more desirable LITTLE Jasons’s house. Apparently Jason is a common name in our town. I of course never checked to see if the kid was in my son’s class but I assumed she had done her playdate legwork! In any event, we both laughed it off and I took my rejected yet relieved child home.
Posted by: Bad Mommy, January 18, 2009 in 11:31 pm
Last week I didn’t get the phone call that school was cancelled. Or maybe I just slept through it. Not sure. Either way, I didn’t know! There wasn’t that much snow so I thought nothing of it. I packed the kids in the car and drove to school. When I got to the school, it seemed eerily quiet. I waited…and waited… and waited. Thought I must have gotten their earlier and then checked the clock. Nope. School should have started! I called a friend to confirm. It was a Snow Day! I drove the kids back home and we all put our pajamas on and pretended it never happened!