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Parenting Pitfalls

Published August 26th 2009

The hardest part about being a parent in the new millennium is society at large. How do we discipline our children into not becoming the scourge of society when society won't let us?

Anecdote of Idiocy #1:

The Laundry Room

When my daughter was under a year old, and still very unsteady on her feet, we had a run-in with a fellow dweller in my apartment building's laundry room.

Even then my daughter would never sit still, so I put her to work handing me the laundry from the basket. I reached down to take the next item from her and grasped at air. Looking down, I realized she was toddling away from me and toward an open container of bleach some idiot had left laying around in a laundry room full of children.

I quickly ran over to her and pulled her away from the bleach, as my job as mommy dictates. I did not hurt her, she did not cry (in fact she even smiled up at me knowing she was being naughty), I saved her from potentially killing herself.

All of this happened over a 5 second timespan, so I don't want anyone bitching that "you should have been watching her better". Checking on a kid every 5 seconds is the height of kiddie surveillance.

The next thing I know, the woman who owned the bleach was yelling at me for yanking her away.