Other people’s kids suck!
Because they’re hyper, foretelling a career jacking cop cars to sell for parts in Oaxaca while high on crank.
Our kids are adorably spunky.
Other people’s kids are afraid of the roller coaster on the pier, suggesting a life spent barricaded in their bathrooms while their octogenarian mothers slip tortillas to them under the door.
Our kids are prudently cautious.
Other people’s kids wear low-rise jeans from Gymboree and tell smutty jokes forecasting a shame spiral that’ll land them in the Simi Valley flesh trade.
Our kids are precociously irreverent.
Other parents are too strict, too loose, too close, too far, too young, too old, too horizontal, too vertical, too latitudinal, too longitudinal, too flatulent, too constipated, too slavish, too supercilious, too supercalifragalisticexpialidocious.
While Henry and I strike a perfect balance.
Which is why I’m not worried that Bridget went to Kindergarten in a skirt with no underwear on. Or that her skirt “twirled up” on the playground. Or that, on a separate day, she told her classmates during rug time that she’d gotten a shot in her vagina.
Which apparently was some kind of misinterpretation of how the pediatrician handled her pinworm outbreak. (Also, some of the kids didn’t know what a vagina was. Which seemed odd.)
And I’m not worried that Clare told her friends, which means basically the whole school, about the Tunnel of F@@k.
Which was an incident that occurred when we were in New York on vacation and got stuck in traffic heading into the city and Henry cursed and Clare told him he owed her a dollar and he started throwing toll change in the back seat yelling, “Dammit, dammit, dammit.”
And then I had the bright idea that the mid-town tunnel would be the Cursing Tunnel and the four of us could say any dirty word we wanted, consequence free, and then there’d be no more dirty words for the rest of the trip.
So Henry and I led the girls in a chorus of “damn, hell, crap, damn, hell, crap.” As we emerged from the tunnel I was just thinking we’d gotten off easy when I heard my 8-year old morals police Clare say …….”fuck?”
And I’m certainly not worried that Bridget told everyone in carpool that “Mommy likes her wine,” just because of that one time when the second play date chardonnay snuck up on me and I got in the trampoline and started rolling around in a ball trying to knock kids down as I shrieked, “Mommy cannonballll!”
We did have two cancelled play dates last week, but I’m sure they’re legit. A dead aunt. Scarlet fever. Locust plague. Not because some neighborhood moms caught us watching Winter Wipeout through our venetian blinds.
8 thoughts on “Other People’s Kids Suck!”
I am laughing so hard. thanks for the laughs, Shannon.
oh Good, now I feel like a saint. MY child would never say that – yeah right! Brilliant column as always. Cammy
Thanks Shannon and Cammy – you're the only moms I never judge. Mwahahaha!
Very, Very Funny!
Hilarious and wonderfully entertaining!
Fabulous – funny and truthful.
Thanks Kuklafran!
i tried to get my kid to say bad words once when she was feeling really upset & i thought maybe it would help her to purge out the frustration & angst. instead she wrote "dammit" on the kitchen floor with a marker & then erased it really fast due to her own shock at her terrible behavior.
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