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Me with my littlest.
Some PABST's to get off my chest
IRL "friend".
I think I may have to stop being friends with you. I'm getting tired of you teasing me because I ask my kids if they're "okay" too much. I may be a helicopter mom, but at least I tend to my kids and change the sh!t in their pants. Maybe you should take a page from my book.
And I can't believe that you said "well, maybe it's because this is my second child" while holding your 3 month old. While my two [older] kids played not 10 feet away from us. I was so shocked, and wondered if you were an idiot, that I couldn't even say anything.
Not to be nitpicky, but at least I spell out "you" and "are" in emails, etc.
For MH: You said, of your own free will, that you were sorry you didn't do more around the house and that you'd do more. I told you that you did enough, which was true, but now you've done nothing for the past 3 days. Um, what? And when you say that you'll take over the making of the coffee, I was hoping that you'd actually do it. After 10 years, I'm tired of making the coffee. PLEASE start doing it.
Me with my littlest.
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Re: Some PABST's to get off my chest
xxoo
~Lisa
Mum to Owen and Lucas
"friend" stinks. I probably am a helicopter parent by some people's measure (definitely to graceandtho and sarah). I'm proud of it. To me the opposite is not something to be proud of.
And yeah to the moms of the bullying 4 and 5 year olds *I* have to tactfully get to lay off DS, frankly that IS your job to make your kids not be monsters, so why aren't you doing it?
My Mum was a helicopter parent to the extreme, probably too much not so much in style but in how long she did it for. I can't fault her parenting until I was 20. Really. At 20 she didn't let go fast enough for my liking but that's a minor thing. She's working on that.
Helicopter Parents CARE. Hell I should get a badge for that in my siggy.
And I hear you about the coffee.
I especially love the last part. 10 years of making coffee is a fuckinglongtime. My fix... we got a Keurig. Best.Invention.Ever!
Ditto. LOVE the keurig
I would hope most parents fall inbetween these two extremes. I would have to consider myself a "free-range parent." I am proud of it. That doesn't mean I let my girls run around in dirty diapers. And I do CARE.
Nope--I'm pretty sure MMML just implied that unless you hoover, you don't care....so I guess that means I don't love my kids either...interesting.
LOLOLOL. Drama in my PABST post.
Me with my littlest.
FWIW---I dont' care that you, Winery, helicopter. What bugged me was MMML saying that to be the opposite is something NOT to be proud of and then saying that it just shows she cares.
I am proud my kids are independent, AND safe. and they don't require me to walk on their heels every moment of the day. They can go play in their play room without me being right there and making sure they don't eat a toy or something.