Friday, October 12, 2007

Good Mom / Bad Mom Complex

I am getting a seriously mad amount of work done today. I am out of control productive.

but umm...

My kid.....

Lets just say I now get why people get so annoyed by the whole Dora and Diego thing. I had managed somehow to never see an episode of either until yesterday. Now we are on day two of LOTS of TV.

LOTS AND LOTS.

and frozen waffles.

But I am getting some shit done, and that is going to make a me a "good mom" on the weekend.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My first day at a UU church, I am standing there, six month pregnant with kid 3, with kids 1 & 2 literally hanging on my skirt and am in coffee hour conversation with a woman whom I tell I have just finished writing a novel.

"Wow," says the woman who has three daughters herself. "Where do you find the time."

"They watch a lot of TV," I said.

Talk about your conversation stopper. Turns out she doesn't own one, and she and her husband have taken turns being at home and home schooling.

9 years later, I'm still carrying around the bad mom baggage. But, I have one really crappy novel to hold up as evidence of my hard work!

Jules said...

We've all done it! I would not be able to accomplish anything, or get thru really sick days without tv time. Thank god for nick jr!

Bookshelf

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The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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