I get the bad parent of the week award. It’s a familiar story for parents… last night C started fussing about 4 a.m., but I could tell she wasn’t awake. So I waited to see if she would stop on her own. She didn’t stop, but it didn’t escalate either. Anyway, I finally went in, and (say it with me…) poopy diaper. My poor little grown-up girl, trying to soothe herself back to sleep while lying in her own filth.
Even though I felt really bad, it was also hard not to laugh–she never fully woke up the whole time I was changing her, but she was clearly annoyed to have the lamp on and the cold wipe on her butt (and she was a little chapped besides). Her latest thing is to blow raspberries when she’s really mad–so she’s got her eyes closed, and she’s going, “Wah! Pbbbt! Wah! Pbbbt!”
Then I sat down with her and rocked for a few minutes. Her eyes were open but she was in the zone–not really awake, just looking up at me, and I could swear she was thinking something like, “Wow, that experience really sucked, but then you made it all better. Thanks.”
But that could be my imagination.
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One time Jacob starting crying uncontrollably while I was babysitting him. I couldn’t figure out what was going on and he kept crying and crying. After about 20 minutes or so, I decided to check out his diaper. Sure enough, he had been trying to tell me that he had pooped his diaper. I felt pretty bad that I hadn’t caught on earlier.
I liked the last part of your story when you talked about Caroline looking up at you. I think that last paragraph redeems yourself from getting the “bad parent award.”
Are you kidding? The “Bad Parent” award…
I’ll list reasons why I deserve it over you….
1. Divorced father of children
2. Left chicken pox medicine within reach of toddler
3. Didn’t insist on wearing life jackets for all on sailboat ride
4. Let 11 year old daughter roam the State Fair of Texas Midway by herself
5. Uprooted a perfectly happy middle school daughter with a move out of her home city and school
6. Made daughters ‘mommies’ at the ripe old age of 11 and 13
7. Concentrated on dating when children should have been major focus
8. Separated siblings by 250 miles
9. Didn’t save for college fund so that children would have to go into debt for higher education
10. Made dessert the priority “meal” of my children’s day
11. That ‘ghost’ costume
12. Those uneven haircuts (and bangs cuts)
13. Not nursing all my children
14. Leaving the house on Coleridge
15. and on and on and on
Sorry, but me thinks you just don’t qualify for the award, reverandmother!
As if mom desserves any kind of “bad parenting” award. She’s only the best parent ever.