Originally posted 10/23/06. Updated with strikeouts.
Love this idea from Lindsey at Surburban Turmoil.
I’m certainly not a textbook parent. Here are some of my "guilty secrets" —
1) I bribe my kids with dessert to get them to eat their dinner.
2) I serve Kraft mac-and-chemical several times a week. It’s my daughter’s favorite. I also let them have gum almost every day. And sometimes we have pizza two nights in a row.
3) I still nurse my daughter to sleep for naps and bedtime and then I still rock my 2-year-old to sleep for naps and bedtime.
again in the night sometimes. Yes, she’s one. She usually sleeps thru
the night, but there are still exceptions. I also nurse her during the
day sometimes just to get her to stop fussing.
4) We let our 3 4-y/o daughter sleep in our bed when she comes in during the night.
5) I forget to give the kids their vitamins. In fact, I don’t think I’ve even filled a prescription for them in over a year.
6) Last year I kept my son out of school several times so we could do something fun I wanted to do.
7) Sometimes I let my kids have Coke. Not very often, though. I let
them have chocolate milk for breakfast, and sometimes I make chocolate
chip pancakes too.
8) I only bathe the kids a couple times a week. Actually, Hubby does
the baths. I use scented detangler on the kids’ hair, and that keeps it from
being stinky.
9) My kids hear me cuss way too often. I tell them not to say those
"naughty words", and so far they don’t. I really have been trying to do
better with that.
10) I don’t let my kids paint because the mess sends me to the looney bin. That’s what I pay preschool for!
Alright! Let’s hear your guilty secrets!
I don’t have any. I do everything right and perfect. Other parents try to emulate me because I am so amazing.
Jamie
I’m with you on the paint! I eat out with the kiddos more than I should just because I can’t bare to cook another meal.
I don’t think nursing your baby should be a guilty secret. She’s only one. The average age (worldwide) for weaning a baby is 3 or 4. It’s just us North American’s that are too prude about it.
I am with you on the baths! As long as they don’t stink 😉
Yall are making me lol.
As far as the nursing, yeah, I nursed my 2nd for 26 mos, so I’m no stranger to EBF, but it’s amazing how many people get weirded out by that!
I wrote this a year ago. I should do another updated one, I suppose. Eh.
You are awesome. Thank you for making me feel like a normal mom! (I don’t think I’ve ever admitted to how infrequently my kids bathe – especially in the winter!! LOL) I think we’d get along just great IRL! LOL! I don’t cuss, and I don’t mind the paint – but other than that – I could have written this post!! Thanks for being so real!
Oh so yeah. Mine are – #1 – I see no problem with kids watching TV while playing. I just don’t.
#2 – The cussing thing, yeah. The other day I spilled an entire LARGE coke on my floor. I yelled a not nice word LOUDLY, and then realized my neighbors were home. And their three kids. (I am just hoping they didn’t hear me.)
#3 – I am SOUTHERN BAPTIST (all capitals on purpose) and I drink wine. And sometimes martinis/margaritas.
i shared my secrets today! i totally bribe my kids and don’t bathe them.
oh yes, we share many quirks, you and i. 🙂
I nursed my son until he was 2 1/2……however, if you look at the picture on his arm on my blog today, you’ll wean immediately. Oh, yea, he also slept in the bed with us!
Alright, you want a guilty secret…I wash my hair once a week (yuck right). I spend about three days a week with hair in a ponytail and a baseball hat. Who has time to wash and dry their hair with two babies? No one knows this, I hide it, now you know;)
Sometimes I wash it twice in one week, I mean, I am not a total cavewoman!
#6 should not make you feel guilty! My mom was the same way and I am a better person b/c they knew that there are times when family or church are more important than school!
#1 – Baths 2x a week for my kids
#2 – I always make a double batch of pie-dough just to eat one half
#3 – My son and I eat reddi-whip straight from the can.
#4 – If they let me sleep in on weekends, I see nothing wrong with ice cream for breakfast. Just make sure it’s out away after.
aaack! Again, with the posting without checking my spelling! “put”