Friday, July 15, 2011

My rapidly escalating parenting failures

My wife decided to go to a wedding in California this weekend. Being brave I agreed to watch all four kids for the weekend. After being in charge for only 18 hours, here are some of the incidents in order of lack of parenting skill



My 7 year old son got some Mountain Dew out of my truck, put some in a sippy cup and gave it to the 16-month old baby. She wouldn't go to sleep last night and I couldn't figure out why. This morning when I found the sippy cup I figured out why.



This space gun complete with flashing lights and ULTRA annoying laser sounds kept the 4 year old and 7 year old laughing for an hour when they were supposed to be sleeping. Stupid me should have realized that by merely taking away the gun I could have averted all of that.



This frightening KKK look-alike doll-baby is just plain creepy and weird. I thought it should make the list even though nothing happened with it.




Lastly, a huge met-down brawl between all of my boys occurred over these two lego guys.

2 comments:

colinkun said...

Sheesh. I hope you can survive until your wife returns. Thanks for sharing your parenting adventures.

Becky Cox said...

Um, that was Maddys pink baby dolly and Gracie likes it just fine!