From the moment someone finds out you’re pregnant to probably the day your child is out of the house (and in some cases after that) you are inundated with unsolicited advice. I can’t stand it. I particularly can’t stand it when its given on really unimportant or marginally relevant issues.
My mother is quick to give advice and what more, I find it unnecessary and damn hypocritical. This morning my son had cereal for breakfast and the “main course” in his lunch was a ham sandwich. So basically I’m a bad mother because ‘I’m home now’. I guess that means I’m supposed to cook steak and homemade mashed potatoes for lunch.
When it comes to food she has this cute little saying that she ‘eats to live’ she doesn’t ‘live to eat.’ Great, why not have that philosophy about my MY son? Instead, she’s ready to shovel anything down his mouth that he so desires. Soldier (my son) is the type of kid that eats and drinks because he sees not because he’s hungry. And I know that the eating habits a child has influences how they are as an adult. I tell her this all the time and I get an “I know” but that doesn’t stop her from questioning WHY I won’t let him eat ice cream after 9pm the day after he had ice cream at a rare mom and me trip to Dairy Queen. Read the rest of this entry »
