As parents, hearing stranger’s parenting suggestions are like nails on a chalkboard. On the other hand, my infant daughter, Penelope, doesn’t understand our frustrations, and welcomes any and all opinions. In this post, Penny and I “discuss” when it’s appropriate for strangers to intervene and the duty to rescue.
My husband eats everything. I always expect the one thing I look forward to at the end of the day to not be there when I get home, but I have yet to become inured by my everlasting disappointment.
Childhood is short. But friendship, true friendship, is worth taking a pause from parenting from time to time. If nothing else, it helps teach children the importance of cultivating relationships that last beyond the time we have with them.
I can honestly say, I’m not a great mom. I’m not a bad one either. I’m an adequate mom whose trying hard to be a better one. And that’s ok.
This time around my mom can sit back with all the other traumatized parents, simply enjoying the fact that it isn’t her, and probably giggle a bit that I’m finally getting my just deserts.
