You know you're in a drought when it finally rains and your toddler has forgotten what that's like. My daughter was so excited when she woke up one day last week and it was raining! She kept wanting me to pick her up so she could look out the window at it, exclaiming, "Hey rain!
I never thought I'd be one of those parents who think the earth revolves around their child. But several times lately I've caught myself wanting other people to behave in ways that make my daughter happy, without little regard for whether it makes THEM happy or not. On the flip side, I begin liking people I was not previously crazy about when my daughter has fun with them.
My daughter has started a funny pretending game with her Little People Sesame Street set (before you get excited, this set is circa 1977, cleaned up and pulled out of the attic). The characters get all the same injuries that she does. She skins her knee all the time, so Ernie walks out the door, falls on the sidewalk and then she waves him around saying "Knee! Knee!" Last week she lost her balance…
Now that I'm a mom, I have to ask: Do people who design parks have kids? If so, do they ever take the kids to the park?
As the heat of summer blazes down, I struggle to find somewhere to take my 2-year old to meet her endless desire for "Slide! Swing!" (Then she clarifies, as if I might misunderstand and make a mistake otherwise, "Swing HIGH!")
I saw a commercial that made me mad the other day. The theme was about making a regular day special by using a particular product to interact with your child; I think the one I saw was about chocolate Rice Crispies. It is one of a genre that annoys me because I think what the advertiser is really trying to sell me is how awesome my kid is. And that's not a commodity that's theirs to sell. I alread…
