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  • #1

    And the gold medal in parenting goes to...

    ... Definitely NOT this household!! Here is our situation today... in the car, baby having fever for third day and NOT happy, twins very stir crazy and NOT happy, mom about ready to pull everyone's hair out, including my own!! We are driving home from a very long bout of errands and meetings. Twins get in a fight. Seth bites Sarah (he has been in and out of this phase - driving us crazy!), mom, in a gut reaction, reaches back and gives a little spank to his leg to get him to stop and says (in her not-so-nice-voice), "stop biting!" Now he cries. I say, "don't bite!" He says, "but mom, you HIT me!" (we have also been on a big crusade to get him to stop hitting, a HUGE no-no in our house.).

    Ummm, Ya.... great example being taught there. When we stopped the car we had to do a little 'tri-sorry' episode, Seth sorry for biting Sarah, mommy sorry for 'hitting' Seth.

    I do have to say that it ended cute, we all hugged and Seth said, "Mommy, you make me happy!" (something that we tell them after they have said sorry for something they have done). Ya, I felt about 2 inches tall.

    Ya... no gold medal winners here today. Sometimes I wish I could go back to being the kid again, just for a day .

    Jen
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  • #2
    You made it through. That deserves a gold medal.

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    • #3
      Been there/done that! I hate it when those kinds of things happen...but neither one of us is alone in occasionally reacting to these kinds of things.

      I'm sorry for your bad day...hopefully, today will be better! is

      kris
      ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
      ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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      • #4
        oh yeah - I know your pain. you're still on the medal stand -- you set the right example 99% of the time -- and Seth noticed.

        we're all in this together!

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        • #5
          Gold in my book!!
          Luanne
          wife, mother, nurse practitioner

          "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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          • #6
            Yep, we've had those kinds of moments in the car. It sounds like you made it right, which probably teaches them more than if we behaved the way we were supposed to 100% of the time. At least I keep telling myself that when I have my slip-ups!
            Awake is the new sleep!

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            • #7
              Sounds like a typical bad mommy day.

              They stink (the bad mommy days - not necessarily the kids or the mommies themselves ).

              But, you know what your kids are going to remember? That Mommy makes them happy and that you love them enough to apologize for mistakes.

              Aren't kids great? (When we aren't ready to kill them that is :> ).
              Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
              With fingernails that shine like justice
              And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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