Well oh my goodness. Carolyn Hax had something useful to say. But, of course, couldn't resist being obnoxiously snarky about it to someone who just needed to be educated. Polite persons limit snarkiness to the deliberately blind and those who refuse to be educated.
I like your write-up and would like to save it for future use, if you so allow.
You've read LMB's Barter yes? There are the occasional periods when I think about it all day.
I don't read her, so I don't know how things normally go. I do know that being asked "so what do you DO all day" makes me want to scream loudly enough to burst eardrums, so I'm willing to forgive a great deal of snark on this particular subject.
I haven't read "Barter", actually. Just about everything else, but not that one.
If the letter-writer -really- wanted to know what the stay-at-home mom did all day, I think she should offer to go over to her friend's house and spend a day with the kid. Get first-hand experience on making the bottles, changing diapers, helping the kid with Every Little Thing, and really seeing first-hand how exhausting it was. I don't know a single parent who wouldn't occasionally LOVE to have a friend offer to come over and be company and actually try to help take care of a kid, even if the friend is childless and needs to be taught some things
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I'm not proud. I bribe the kid with television so I can go to the bathroom and/or cook dinner. (What did people do to cook dinner in olden times with no TV? They put the kid in a baby-minder device, like a roofed playpen or caged-in chair, people, that is what they did, or they had extra relatives around to keep the children out of the fire, or they strapped the babies to poles with lengths of cloth. I AM NOT JOKING HERE. This has been a problem since humans started making fires, keeping children out of them.)
OH MY GOD. I feel so incredibly fortunate that Marcus has never found the contents of his diaper that interesting, nor considered them as a potential art supply ... on the other hand, the morning that both he and one of the cats had diarrhea will be forever burned into my memory ...
The shoe thing, though, and the production number that is Going Somewhere (especially a non-kid-centric location)? I so hear you.
Also, thank goodness for high chairs and Sesame Street :)
I don't think he thought of it as art supply; I think he just shoved his hands down there to see what was up, and then tried to clean them off by wiping them on stuff (he hates dirty hands).
Just.
Maybe don't put them down your pants next time, kid.
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I like your write-up and would like to save it for future use, if you so allow.
You've read LMB's Barter yes? There are the occasional periods when I think about it all day.
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I haven't read "Barter", actually. Just about everything else, but not that one.
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Seriously, haven't you read Dreamweaver's Dilemma?
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Yes. Pianos are much better covered in poo.
That baby is lucky he's so damn cute.
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Oh, dear God, yes. I fantasize about the TARDIS appearing so I can take just a 48 hour pocket to sleep as much as I want, and maybe pee by myself.
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In my head it's time dilation chambers (this is what happens when you watch SGA when you have a newborn), but yes. HELL yes.
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The shoe thing, though, and the production number that is Going Somewhere (especially a non-kid-centric location)? I so hear you.
Also, thank goodness for high chairs and Sesame Street :)
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Just.
Maybe don't put them down your pants next time, kid.
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