Pre-child,
I was righteous. I believed that while parenting was hard, I was going
to manage to conduct myself well at least the majority of the time. Ha.
Ha. Ha. Now I know that I'm more likely to high-five myself on very
rare occasions of almost accidental successful parenting, than to
reflect every night on my serene and superior mom-skills. And the list
of things I thought I'd never do and still find myself doing? It is
very long. Here's just five. Maybe you've done some of these as well.
1.
Lying to the kid. Oh, gonna be honest all the time, right? Mmm hmm.
Let's see, there's the lies because the truth would hurt ("You do have
a lovely singing voice"); the ones about things I can't control ("I
swear, no one in your class will throw up today, now get dressed for
school!"); and the just plain self-serving stuff ("No, that isn't
chocolate, it's mama's medicine.") If my nose grew, I'd be poking the
Olympians in Beijing with it right now.
2. Yelling, throwing
stuff, and generally losing it. Because I have a pretty firm grip on my
temper, I believed I'd have this one in the bag. But who knew...
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