Comments on: Guilty as Charged

By: Alicia Webster

Alicia Webster — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:57:39 +0000

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By: Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:31:50 +0000

I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?

By: minnemom

minnemom — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:26:22 +0000

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Tomorrow I will have finished off the box of Lucky Charms single-handedly. Hey! All they do is eat the marshmallows!

Thanks for a dose of reality in letting us know we’re not alone.

By: Kelly Lininger

Kelly Lininger — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:50:37 +0000

Love this list…It’s called being a mom!

By: Melissa Camara Wilkins

Melissa Camara Wilkins — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:13:57 +0000

I love this list! Here’s my addition: if we’re out of the house until bedtime, everyone may sleep in their clothes. (My older ones get themselves into pj’s anyway, but my little ones are asleep in party dresses tonight!)

By: Alisa Bowman

Alisa Bowman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:17:26 +0000

Thanks for making me feel normal and less guilty. While we are sharing: I only bathe my daughter once a week because that’s how often I can get up the strength to force her into the tub.

By: Elizabeth Edwardsen

Elizabeth Edwardsen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:50:45 +0000

I thought of a couple more:
- I routinely lie to my daughter about what she’s eating. Even though she’s 12, when she asks about the pink lines running through her chicken meat or the bumps on the turkey skin, I say “those are just marks.” I may be missing an anatomy lesson opportunity, but it’s in the name of protein. She’ll figure it out soon enough.

- When she was tiny, if I was tired and our bedtime routine demanded that I read a chapter or a book, I wasn’t above turning more than one page at a time. I swear, I only did that a few times. She caught me, and I had to stop.

And yes, she really did have no idea what an iron was. But she could, I’m sure, identify much more interesting things.

By: pen4hire

pen4hire — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:25:57 +0000

I had a friend once tell me that the only time HER mother mopped the floor was if she spilled a glass of water. I always held that up as my “At least I’m not that bad” standard. Otherwise, you are right on track for being a sane mother. Take it from this grandma.

I also broke child labor laws by starting the kids out at age three with emptying small wastebaskets and graduating them to putting away all their own clothes (which I at least folded) when they were five.

I’m not a morning person and by the time they were in5th grade, they were getting up and making their own breakfast and getting off to school without interference.

By: lisamann

lisamann — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:30:28 +0000

My mom used to have an ironing basket where we put clothes that needed to be ironed. Once a year, my grandmother visited and ironed everything in it. If the basket got full before my grandmother visited, my mom threw away everything in it. (I recently found that basket behind the water heater in my mom’s house. It still had my girl scout uniform in it. I guess somehere about then we caught on to not filling the basket). My mother’s daughter, I save a step by tossing any clothes that we accidently buy that require ironing right into the goodwill basket.

By: marthaandme

marthaandme — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:58:03 +0000

My ironing board is behind a bunch of junk in the garage. I haven’t ironed in years! And we never ever make the beds either. I used to rely on Caillou on PBS to allow me to get work done when my son was home with me. And we have nights where everyone just has to find food on their own too.