Topic of the Week is Parenting
February 9, 2009
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Parenting is the hardest job I have ever had! I am sure you all will agree with me. It is also the most rewarding! Parenting is our Topic of the Week.
Post your best parenting tips, funny parenting/kid stories, whatever you have that will make your fellow Lazy Moms life a little easier or make us smile! There will be a Lazy Loot giveaway on Friday again this week!
Stay tuned for some great tips and stories from the Lazy Moms on the bog this week.
Haha! I wish I had advice! I need all the help I can get! I love you guys though!
http://www.kellychandler.blogspot.com
I got this tip from a book and it worked–for awhile (then I got too lazy). I have two girls that tend to fuss and argue, so at bedtime I would make them say ( to me) two or three things that they liked about the other sister that day—something they did that was nice, a fun time, or some redeeming quality. It is worth a try–
My kids are grown, but you will have teenagers! You have to have your own time. I would tell my girls to go to the movies I would pay and have time in my home alone. This really helped my recharge.
Next I’m married, we went away for 3 day without children every year! I have been married almost 26 years!!
I love to share my “mother of the year” stories with my friends. Hopefully, you will enjoy this story….
Thinking on our recent family trip (8YO Son, 5YO Daughter and Husband) to the sports store to buy son some hiking boots. Definitely a Mother-of-the-Year Moment. It went something like this (and, by the way, Husband is responding to the nickname SD these days).
Me: Son, you have to find hiking boots.
Son: I don’t want new shoes. I hate buying new shoes.
Me: Son, you only have two pair of shoes and they are both worn out and you need hiking boots for this weekend’s campout.
Son: I only like shoes that don’t have laces.
Daughter: Oh, look Mommy, here are some shoes that would look just lovely on me.
Me: Daughter, you have 15 pairs of shoes at home. We are shopping for Sons’s shoes. You can try on shoes if you want but you are ABSOLUTELY NOT buying another pair of shoes today.
Daughter: But Daddy said I could get hiking boots too.
Me: (sigh) Okay, then, hiking boots but NOTHING ELSE. Where did your father go, anyway?
Me: Son, go find a pair of hiking boots. Stop ignoring me.
Daughter: Mommy, do they have pink high heel hiking boots?
Me: No.
Daughter: Are these hiking shoes?
Me: No. Those are pink high heels. Son, get up off the floor and get some shoes. My gosh! Where IS your father?
Son: (Still curled up on the floor) They don’t have my size.
Me: THEY DON’T HAVE YOUR SIZE? Is THAT what you just said to me? Are you insane? How would you know, you haven’t even looked! Here, try these on (I throw the box at him).
Daughter: I want Hannah Montana hiking boots. Do they have those?
Me: Where the h*** is your father?
Poor Husband: I’m here. I was over there looking at…..
Me: Son!!!! What are you doing? IS THAT YOUR GAME BOY?! IS THAT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN DOING?! OH MY GOD-GOSH, WHY WOULD YOU BRING THAT? PUT IT AWAY AND TRY ON THESE BOOTS!!!!!
Daughter: Can I have two pairs of shoes because these ones over here are sooooooo cute.
Son: I hate these shoes. I hate all shoes that have laces. You know that.
Me: All hiking boots have laces.
Son: Then I don’t want them.
Me: Dammit Husband!!!! I AM OFFICIALLY CHANGING YOUR STATUS FROM “FATHER” TO “SPERM DONOR” IF YOU DON’T HELP ME WITH THESE SPAWN OF YOURS!!!!! SON, SHUT UP AND PUT ON THE STINKIN’ BOOTS AND GIMME THAT STUPID GAMEBOY OR I AM THROWING IT IN THE TRASH. I MEAN IT. ONE….TWO….THR… THANK YOU. DAUGHTER, YOU CAN HAVE BOTH PAIR OF THE D*** SHOES IF YOU WILL JUST SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE. What is wrong with you people?
Daughter: Mommy, I love you.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool mom!
I want my boys, ages 13 and 15 to grow up to be responsible citizens, good men, of course we all do. I know that starts at home but these days it is harder and harder to connect with our kids. Busy lives. Different world. I started 2 things in our home. First I receive a booklet, “The Upper Room” which is a daily devotional and they have a story about someone or something and then a bible verse at the end to relate to that story. Thay are about 1 paragraph and take just a minute to read it. I started reading those after dinner to my family and the kids were like, MOM! But then I had a busy week one week and the kids actually missed it. they said, we will take turns reading it. it only takes a minute mom. I think they began enjoying that 15 minutes we talked about something together as a family and now, we each take nights, reading that days devotional and then we have even gone so far and to add to the tradtion by trying to relate it to our lives in a small way. It literally takes us 10-15 minutes but it doesn’t cost us anything, we do not have to GO anywhere, and it is not an inconvenience. End result, more quality time with my teenage boys, which is hard to make them want, and some positive information that they are actually recieving. Once they realized they did not have a way out of it, they have come to enjoy it and it makes them feel more ADULT like that we are having these conversations. Good for everyone. Easy for LAZY MOMS! =)
The best advice I ever received was to pick your battles. You can’t make a mountain out of every mole hill. You have to be selective, especially when you have a teen-ager.
Also want to share a funny story. I was saying the Lord’s Prayer with my 4-year-old the other night. We’re Lutheran so we end with “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.” My son is saying it with me and he says: “… glory forever and ever.org”. I guess he’s been watching too much PBSkids.org!
Overheard one day as my 3 and 5 year old girls were playing My Little Pony Memory:
“Pause the game! I need to go to the bathroom!”.
Or when reading bedtime stories….
“Mom, can you pause the story? I forgot my Dora doll….”.
This lazy mom absolutely does NOT use the TV as a babysitter…what? Me? Naahhh….
This is just a parenting story I have to share…One evening after we had to put our daughter in a time out for hitting her little sister. Makena came back down stairs after it was over and was crying. We asked why she was crying when she was the one that wasn’t hurt by her sister and we said you need to not be a crybaby….she responded and told us off, “I’m not a crybaby, I’m a Drama Queen!”.
I’m trying to teach my boys- 11,11 (twins) and 13- to tackle the hardest things first. It’s a trick I didn’t learn until college. Once you get what you think is the toughest job/homework/whatever out of the way, all other tasks seem easy and get done much quicker. It works especially well for those who procrastinate!!
OK.. this has to be an oxymoron… because parenting is the one thing you can’t be lazy with… On the other hand, to achieve the goal of “more time = more fun” my best suggestion re. parenting is to JUST DO IT! There will be years and years later to be their best friend but while children are growing and maturing in your home, you need to be the parent. They WILL one day thank you.. even if you find all the wooden spoons behind the washer-dryer when you move. My kids are grown and I don’t regret one day of being a full out parent including discipline. My youngest son spent the better part of three years in and out of hospitals and a nurse told me that I was the first parent she’d ever seen to assign “time out” while hospitalized… still, no regrets!
I’m only 73 days into motherhood but from what I can tell so far it seems important to take things in stride. Poop blowouts will happen, just as, I’m sure, temper tantrums and missed curfews will too, but if you have an arsenal of weapons (a whole lot of support–even the online kind!–, a heap of laughter and a wee bit of wine) you can make it through just about anything.
I would have to say my lazy mom tip would be what I do for my 15 month old daughter. I feed her in her high chair, then when she’s done, I wipe her off with a couple diaper wipes and her “bath” is done for the day. I also do her hair and put lotion on her while she’s in her chair because she can’t escape!
Amen Nicole!
2 Words: Lollipops & Popsicles
There is something about these 2 items that your kids will do anything for (which is very important as a Lazy Mom)! They make them so happy! ***Bonus: AND QUIET!**
My advice – always keep these two items on hand!
Nothing like being told by your 13 year old…”Hey Mom did you forget something…” I forgot to notify the Toothfairy she should have come last night and pay a visit to my younger child prior to going to bed. Luckily a bad storm hit that evening and interfered with the Toothfairy’s arrival…or at least thats what we initially thought…until we returned to the scene and found…low and behold…the money from the Toothfairy!! But that silly Toothfairy was so confused by having a different pillow on the bed, she forgot to take the tooth! With the help of a note and a repeat performance…the Toothfairy finally got her job completed!! Thank goodness for thunderstorms and second chances.
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