Do as I say, not as I…oh, *damn.*

There are an awful lot of things that nobody tells you about parenting.  I suspect a high percentage of those are things you wouldn’t believe anyway, lol, but it seems like we’re making new and exciting discoveries all the time.

One is how very difficult it can be to set rules that you yourself want to break.

My living room floor is once again covered in crumbs, and it’s because I have totally failed to set any limits with where in the house food can go.  I desperately need to, because I can’t keep up with washing the floors in the entire house multiple times a week, but I haven’t, because I like to grab a bite of something and sit down at the computer.  And if I grab a cookie and come in here, I can’t very well tell them that they can’t do it.  Not because there won’t come a time when there are different set of rules for the kids and the grown-ups for some things, but because my kids are way too smart to take that sort of thing seriously, and they won’t listen to a thing I say about it.

As well they shouldn’t.  I mean, crumbs are crumbs, right?  The adults just generate them a little more slowly.

So someday soon food is going to wind up being restricted to the kitchen and I’m going to wind up being very, very annoyed by that turn of events.  You know, you expect parenting to be brutally difficult...what I never realized is how damned inconvenient it would be.  Heh.

1. You do realize that at the moment you typed those words, ALL mothers laughed and laughed.

   Posted by  on  08/03  at  12:32 PM  from 

2. Oops! ALL of OUR mothers laughed and laughed.

   Posted by  on  08/03  at  09:09 PM  from 
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