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Posted by: Shelley Gershoni Cekirge, March 5, 2010 in 12:38 am
I was craving something sugary and sweet so I was thrilled to no end when I reached into my bag and found a party favor from a baby shower I had attended the day before. I opened it up and discovered some pink and white jelly beans – just the right amount of sugar for an afternoon pick me up. I glanced at the tin and took note of how adorable it was. A metallic white tin with a hot pink pram rolling across the front and my friend’s name scripted along
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Posted by: JudyB, March 4, 2010 in 11:35 am
My 2 year old has recently started biting. I believe he is using it as self defense. One little boy always grabs toys out of his hands and my son’s initial reaction is to bite his hand to get him to let go of the toy. Supposedly it’s out of frustration because he can’t talk that well yet. I know it’s bad and I’m working with him but if one more person says something to me as if it’s my fault, i’m going to punch them (guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree). One mother asked how I was disciplining him, as if I haven’t read every book about this. I’m doing what you’re supposed to do. Punishing him immediately and giving more attention to the child that has been bit. Another mother asked what was going on at
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Posted by: EllyBean, March 4, 2010 in 1:56 am
Why do people think it’s okay to comment on your parenting whenever they choose? If it’s cold outside, people have told me that the babies need a blanket or a hat, or they should have mittens on… If it’s hot outside, strangers point out that the babies need shade, a hat, sunscreen…
One woman told me that I shouldn’t even be outside with them! I’ve had people comment on my stroller being too big, and the babies being too old for pacifiers. I don’t invite these comments but people, it seems, have lots of opinions about child rearing.
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Posted by: Ilona Siller, March 1, 2010 in 11:05 am
1. “As soon as you pay for one.”
2. ” As soon as you come over at 3 am every night to play “hide and seek” and “I am thirsty” with my now 2 kids.
3. “As soon as my first one can make herself and me a decent sandwich.”
4. “As soon as I decide that “ME” time is just not for me.”
5. “As soon as I block out that tiny thing called “labor” out of my forever traumatized head”.
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Posted by: Nyssa Hargrave Retter, February 25, 2010 in 6:02 pm
(Or how I almost became the Mommy Police)
My church has a little nursery room Moms can escape to when the little ones are antsy or cranky, and my daughter, Eliza, was getting tired of being trapped inside the pew, so we went there. Already inside was a two year old girl, let’s call her… “Bolivia,”* and a 13 year old girl watching her. My daughter loves to make new friends, especially with kids about her size (my daughter is 14 months.) So, automatically, she just adored this Bolivia. All was going well, until my daughter found a toy in the toy box. Suddenly, Bolivia grabs the toy from Eliza, and hits her on the forehead with it. Now, my daughter is a tough toddler (by virtue of being a toddler), and she has a big brother, so she’s had her share of toys being snatched away and it usually doesn’t even phase her. But when this little girl she’d JUST MET attacked her unprovoked (and after we’d shared Eliza’s coloring book with her!!), it really threw Eliza for a loop.
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Posted by: Ilona Siller, February 24, 2010 in 9:14 am
1. They slept a lot and late. I would get to wake THEM up and then relax on the bed for hours of parenting bliss.
2. They slept in their cribs OF COURSE. Where else?
4. They had teeth from the second they came out.
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Posted by: Shelley Gershoni Cekirge, February 19, 2010 in 1:33 am
Shit happens. Sometime it happens all over me. I was in the parking lot of a Target recently when I smelled something foul. It was very close to me. I looked down at my smiling angel and knew immediately from whence it came. By the time I figured it all out I was literally covered in it. My daughter and I both changed clothes in the car.
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Posted by: Julie223, February 16, 2010 in 10:47 pm
There was this woman in my playgroup who I became friendly with and if there’s a Mommy Police, she’s got to be at least a lieutenant. Anyway, she was always harping on me because I didn’t have my son signed up for any classes, (we were broke and I was spending money on babysitting so I could work). She was one of those mothers who had her 18 month old son in five classes a week!
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Posted by: Ilona Siller, February 12, 2010 in 2:43 am
1. “I am tired.”
2. “I was bored all weekend. Nothing to do.”
3. “I know how you feel. My dog is a bad sleeper too.”
4. “I like the natural look you’ve been sporting lately!”
5. “You know what you should do…”
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Posted by: Ilona Siller, February 1, 2010 in 8:54 am
1. If you let your son live with you until he is 60, he will never get laid. (”Cheers”)
2. Don’t treat your husband as an annoying extra child. (”Everyone loves Raymond”)
3. Your kids will stick by you even If you live in the woods with no electricity and flush your toilet once a week. (”Wife Swap”)
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