Lazy Parenting
I am feeling seriously blue today but this post made me smile. The comments in particular — all the lazy parents out there admitting to their sneaky lazy parenting methods. I can’t deny that I am right there with them…I just try not to admit to my grave parenting flaws since I have a co-parent who watches over my shoulder, clipboard in hand, taking careful notes for our inevitable court battle to save my children from the evilness that is me.
I don’t think I ever mentioned how much better I felt about my parenting when my boys’ dad left town and I was no longer under his magnifying glass. I still keep my lazy parenting cards close to my chest, though, because when you don’t have another person to confirm to you that yeah, it’s probably okay that your kids don’t get bathed until actually stinky, you worry that everyone else is doing everything right and you’re treading into some vaguely amorphous territory of child abuse.