Why being a slacker mom always backfires.

[heathrowga]

I'd picked up a few 12 packs of soda on sale yesterday at the grocery store. They hadn't been put up in the pantry, and Katie was playing with them on the kitchen floor making them into letter shapes. "Look, mama! I made an O!"

"Yay, Katie!, " I said vaguely as I tried to squeeze in another minute of Livejournal before I had to really engage. Tom has had to work most of the weekend, so I'm a little grumpy.

She continued to move around the 12 packs into more letter shapes.

All of the sudden, I hear the sound of fizzing. One of the 12 packs was bad. Sodas started fizzing all over the kitchen floor.  Slack never pays off.

Comments

[ximinez]

:( I still think slacker parenting is worth it overall.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

For the most part, yes. However, with the child already reverse engineering most locks and contraptions, it's a dangerous balance. :)

[ximinez]

Neat!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

*hughughug*
It does make you more human though. You're one of a handful of mothers I don't feel weirded out by. *hughug*

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Same here, gorgeous. :D

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know about those zen moms. I'm always a bit frazzled. :)

[knobody.livejournal.com]

look at katie go! letters! get more soda so she can spell whole words! or just skip to the corn nuts and beer.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

She can identify all letters and numbers up to 12. She's also reverse engineering most locks.

I'm _so_ screwed. The girl is 2.25 years old.

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

Everybody wants their children to be clever, but when they turn out to be so, you realize it's very much a two-edged sword.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

You're so right. :)

I have one people-pleasing child and one "Screw you, copper!" child. When I saw Katie break her first child-proof lock at 15 months, I was pleased and chilled at the same time.

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

Slacker Mom would be if you didn't clean it up. :)

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

True, true. :)

[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

oooo fizzy mess. sorry. hope it ws diet so ti's not fizzy sticky...

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

It was diet, so not horrid. Just a lot. :(

[jimmyether.livejournal.com]

unrelated to anything, but my friend posted this and I thought you might be interested:

http://ravengirl.livejournal.com/2327086.html