1. If you buy a box of special "sugar bomb" cereal for your kids, they'll eat it once, then leave it untouched thereafter.
2. If the above occurs, you will find that you like "sugar bomb" cereal and will eat it when your kids won't.
3. If the above occurs, you will find that Kellogg's has instituted a recall of the "sugar bomb" cereal the one and only time you've ever bought it in your life. And eaten it.
4. We will not be buying any more "sugar bomb" cereal.
5. Where there's a big odd-looking cloud in the sky that wasn't there two hours earlier...
6. There's smoke. A lot of it.
7. And where there's smoke, there's fire. A 100+ acre forest fire, to be exact.
8. Where there's a forest fire, your children, some autistic and some not, will become convinced that you plan to drive directly toward and into the forest fire. You do not.
9. When you decide that it's finally time for your almost-four-year-old to give up the paci--yes, I said almost four--it's good to have a nearby gift shop that sells dino-grabbers with T. rex heads. These are good dino-for-paci bribes.
10. Dino-grabbers do not make good bedtime substitutes for pacis.
Waaaaah! I hold firm. But I'm considering a bribe with a "sugar bomb"...oh, nevermind.
4 comments:
LOL! That was priceless. #8. made me laugh the hardest, mainly because I know my own would be the same way :)
Not sure what to tell you about the pacifier, Josh (my autistic one) was still using his until he was 4-5 or so. Actually he needed at least 2 at all times, one in a hand, the other in his mouth or hanging from the clip-holder-thingy. I think it just came down to not replacing them any more once he'd chewed them too much. Eventually there was nothing left to chew or suck on and he lost interest.
Anyway, loved the post - hang in there!
Sarah
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I can imagine the expression of disappointment that occured when your little ones realized that a forest fire was not an event one attended. You cannot even begin to put a price on moments like that.
But you raise a more important and delicate issue, which may be making some parents squirm a bit, and that is the old "FOR THE CHILDREN" justification. When my wife goes shopping, she does very meticulous, isle by isle, coupon based purchasing of healthy foods. When I go, we rocket through the store as quickly as possible, at some off hour, filling the cart with junk food, while trying to minimize injury to one of my crew or to other shoppers. Keep in mind, my "crew" in its present state is a 4 headed, 4 mouthed, jabbering, hyperkinetic creature with 8 arms, no discernable impulse control, and a combined age of 12 years. Anways, after we get home and I find myself munching contentedly on something I bought "for the kids", I cannot help but wonder if I have have engaged in a bit of rationalization. Then I shove the thought out of my head. So you hit a bit of a nerve with this one, Emily.
I burst out laughing at #3.
Glad to see the adventures are continuing!
I've actually experienced #8 first-hand. lol
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