Parenting Confessional – Part 3
Written by whoorl · Filed Under confessional
1. On Monday, Wito’s lunch consisted of some Cheerios and string cheese because I wanted to eat HIS beloved leftovers from a Mexican restaurant the night before.
2. I get secretly pissed when he announces that he doesn’t like the song playing in my car. I HAVE STELLAR TASTE IN MUSIC, KID. ONE DAY YOU WILL REALIZE THAT.
3. Wito calls cereal bars (Nutri-Grain bars and such) “handlebars”. I know I am supposed to correct him, but there is nothing cuter than a kid asking for a strawberry handlebar. Carry on, son!
4. If I’m looking like a disheveled mess and/or hobo and need to run errands, I prefer to take Wito so that strangers will assume I look this way from being an overworked parent. Truth is, I probably spent all of my primping time reading Harper’s Bazaar and rearranging my shoe collection.
holly
May 21st, 2009 1:03 pmha! i wouldn’t correct him either. handlebars, gahhh love it
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Jill
May 21st, 2009 2:08 pmHa! I do that last one too. I caught a glimpse of myself in the Target doors the other day and realized I looked like a hot mess. But then I quickly consoled myself with the notion that I had my kids with me so I was expected to look like that. At least their faces were clean. I’m always forgetting to clean their faces after they eat.
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Kaleigha
May 21st, 2009 2:32 pmWhat’s worse is when you don’t have a kid as an excuse and look disheveled to boot.:)
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hi kooky
May 21st, 2009 2:51 pmHobo!
Gretchen
May 21st, 2009 4:43 pmHandlebars! HA! That’s even funnier than the fact that Scott calls Nutrigrain bars Graitrinune bars.
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Kristin
May 21st, 2009 6:19 pmLove the handlebars! My little girl is close in age to Wito – love reading your posts about him :)
I don’t correct some things she says either – I figure eventually she’ll figure it out and then I’ll be sad that she doesn’t say it that way. For example: we have a grey remote for our TV and she calls it the ‘grass kah-mote.’ LOVE it!
Deidre
May 21st, 2009 6:41 pmI called appendages falling asleep being “dizzy” for years and no one corrected me (I also called risotto – Rosetta but I was a lot older…) Handlebars is adorable.
I had tater tots for breakfast because I wanted a vehicle for organic ketchup. Also, I’ve been hanging out in my PJs all day until about 5 when I have to go to class. It’s a pathetic existence.
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Robin Gedman
May 21st, 2009 7:19 pmMy 4 year old daughter calls littering “glittering” and I think it is so cute. She talks about how bad it is to glitter and even lectures people on it. I don’t agree with her though, the world might be a much prettier place if people glittered. :)
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rachel
May 21st, 2009 7:59 pmI really love the new parent confessional posts. hilarious.
Linda
May 21st, 2009 8:01 pmMy four year old son calls girls “grills”, and I can’t bring myself to correct him either!
sizzle
May 21st, 2009 8:15 pmI kind of can’t imagine you looking like a mess honestly. As if! :-)
Handlebars is so cute.
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metalia
May 21st, 2009 8:56 pmDuuuude. Strawberry Handlebar could totally be a band. A great one, at that.
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Rhi
May 21st, 2009 9:01 pmThe handlebars thing reminds me that my best friends kid used to call yogurt ‘ogrit’ and how very sad I was when he learned to say the word correctly. Also sad? He no longer calls me “Annie Wee”, he can actually say Rhiannon.
SOB!
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gorillabuns
May 22nd, 2009 9:31 amI’ve worn the same pair of pants for three or four days straight. No make-up. You can only guess what my hair looks like. Sadly, I HAVE BEEN GOING INTO PUBLIC LIKE THIS!
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Stephanie
May 22nd, 2009 10:47 amLike your number four, I find that I can get away with returning things without receipts if I have my kids with me– you know, harried mom with young kids, I’m sure she misplaced it!
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Kerri Anne
May 22nd, 2009 11:06 amI’m pretty sure I subsisted entirely on Cheerios and string cheese all throughout elementary school.
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Robin
May 22nd, 2009 11:32 amMy son calls granola bars “gorilla bars.” I don’t correct him either.
I’m always sad when my kids start pronouncing words correctly. I almost died when my two year old started properly calling her stuffed kanga roo “kanga roo.” Before that it was kiddly woo. :(
katie
May 23rd, 2009 4:25 pmMy son calls them “canola” bars and we totally don’t correct him, because it’s kind of awesome :)
ali
May 24th, 2009 9:38 ami cannot bring myself to correct the mistakes. they are just too cute. i don’t know if anything ISabella says can beat handlebars, though ;)
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Anonymous New York
May 24th, 2009 2:18 pmI love when kids mispronounce things. So cute! My brother called grapes “beeps” and Raisin Bran “ram ram.” I called pretzels “peetatoos.” We still don’t know where I got that one.
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zizi
May 25th, 2009 10:50 amThanks to Whoorl, we still say flever for fever.
Undomestic Diva
May 25th, 2009 12:51 pmMy 4 year old uses the word “bastard” regularly as a term of endearment towards his brothers. I should really consider trying to put an end to it being that I just signed him up for holy rollin’ Christian preschool in the Fall, but eh, I have all summer right?
Aimee Greeblemonkey
May 25th, 2009 7:43 pm1, 2 = me.
3 = skabetty.
4 = me too except I am fucking around on the internet.
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mariah
May 29th, 2009 2:30 pmHi, I’m new here and just wanted to say ‘handlebars’ is the cutest and I look like crap most days and my youngest is 10 so I don’t know who to blame it on
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