In a span of 5 minutes yesterday, I pretty much “knocked it out of the park”, bad mom style!
1. I had to stop at the library to pick up the new Barbie movie I had reserved for Sydney. Yes, I reserved her a Barbie movie. Let the feminist commentaries on this choice begin.
2. I decided to leave my whining children locked in the car while I dashed inside to pick up the reserved movie. Yes, I did this even though a friend once told me that she left her 3 kids locked in the car while she dashed inside the post office. When she dashed back out, an elderly lady was standing watch over her car full of abandoned kids and read her the riot act for leaving her kids in the car.
3. When I returned to the car, the kids were not screaming, they were giggling. On that rainy afternoon they had decided to write potty words on the fogged up windows.
“Mom!” Sydney snitched. “Will wrote potty words!”
“She told me to!” he defended himself. “I wrote penis.” Giggle, giggle.
“Mom,” he continued. “Do you spell penis P-E-E-N-I-S?”
“No.”
“P-E-A-N-I-S?”
“No.”
4. In fact, I did NOT tell him how to correctly spell penis. So I have impaired his language and fluency scores on standardized tests, I’m sure. But at least no one will know what’s written on my car windows on rainy days by my children who were abandoned in a locked car all for the sake of securing an anti-feminist Barbie movie!
I have not yet seen this anti feminist barbie movie but if it keeps sydney occupied and quite for more than 30 mins, i have to say it may be worth it. And will certainly will know how to spell Penis soon enough.