Bad parent score: 8/10
Jun. 8th, 2006 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheIt's 3:30 pm and I've just turned the telly on.
Mind you, so far today we have played in the garden (laundry, sandpit, watering the plants with the rainwater from the paddling pool), walked to the shops, done painting-and-sticking (Andy Warhol move over; Linnea has discovered making prints All By Herself and we now have three prints of a blue painting in the dining room), washed all the paint off, done the whole teeth and hair and clothes and nappy thing, picked a dandelion, found a stick on the way to the shop and stashed it behind a lamppost for retrieval on the way home (it was still there), listened to the baby kicking, read books, cut ALL her fingernails (they look longer with blue paint under them), had snack, lunch, other snack, tidied up several times (though you can't tell), and, er, other stuff I've forgotten.
Still, turning the telly on is a sure sign of failure.
Mind you, so far today we have played in the garden (laundry, sandpit, watering the plants with the rainwater from the paddling pool), walked to the shops, done painting-and-sticking (Andy Warhol move over; Linnea has discovered making prints All By Herself and we now have three prints of a blue painting in the dining room), washed all the paint off, done the whole teeth and hair and clothes and nappy thing, picked a dandelion, found a stick on the way to the shop and stashed it behind a lamppost for retrieval on the way home (it was still there), listened to the baby kicking, read books, cut ALL her fingernails (they look longer with blue paint under them), had snack, lunch, other snack, tidied up several times (though you can't tell), and, er, other stuff I've forgotten.
Still, turning the telly on is a sure sign of failure.
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Date: 2006-06-08 03:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-08 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-08 04:13 pm (UTC)No way, no way, no way....
It's a sign of a Mom who has tried it all and a child that doesn't nap inb order to give said Mom a break. I was exhausted just reading about your day.
Don't beat yourself up over the inability to be a SuperMom--they only exist in some fictional world.
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Date: 2006-06-08 04:15 pm (UTC)Linnea is now sleeping approx 12 hours of 24. This is unprecedented bliss.
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Date: 2006-06-08 04:17 pm (UTC)Earlier, while resting before going downstairs after changing my shoes (days like today make me glad not to have a child to look after), I read Before Baby Walks again and wibbled a little and enjoyed the whole thoroughly.