Now don’t get me wrong in this vid, I don’t have it all wired and figured out, but it’s always easier to rag on a class of parents that some author has identified as off the mark. Easy pickings really. Here is my pick.
Overparenting
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Tag Archives: overprotective moms
The Nanosecond Rule
This vlog about how to deal with food that gets dropped on the ground will expose me as the lazy-ass mom I think I am. It’s along the same lines as “cookie making” with my daughter, which 8 out of 10 times means opening the pre-made Tollhouse cookie dough. I figure, she’s nearly three but she can’t hang with all that measuring, right?
When she was a newborn, I told my OB how I was sterilizing everything that came near her. He rolled his 60+ eyes of experience. “You’re going to get over that quick. If a binky drops on the ground, you’ll put it right back in her mouth to keep her quiet.” Ah, how right he was.
Helicopter Mom
Before I had a kid, I thought most moms were too overprotective about their kids. As an aunt, I threw my nephew Charlie up and around and he loved it. With Vivien, I am way more uptight. But I’m trying to be cognizant of not allowing her to get dramatic about her falls and trying not to interfere if she and another kid get in a tussle.
I know I got bloodied and bruised when I was kid. It was great to get my mom to kiss it and make it feel better and then go back to playing. You don’t want a wimpy crybaby kid, right? Well, maybe not. There is a new book Nation of Wimps that says too often parents are overprotective to a fault. How do you keep your kid from being a wimp?