Pollyanna_mom is my way of sharing all the craziness of motherhood. Pollyanna was unrelentingly optimistic about her circumstances. I realized one day that to call myself a pollyanna would not be insulting but rather the truth. To be a mom to put up with the bad along with the good, everything from colic to curfew breaking ( although thankfully I"m not there yet with my kids!) requires a certain amount of equanimity in which the long view wins out over the short term stress.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
chess anyone?
Last night we brought our youngest to the ER with a gash on her forehead. She ran headlong, tripped and fell, and cut her head. Lots of blood and tears later I held her hand as she was being sewn up by a plastic surgeon. This experience confirms two things for me. One the sport for our children will have to be chess. Two, I am going back to the Johnny Cochrane method of parenting, "if you hit you must sit" now will have to have a companion saying for running in the house. Maybe "if you run you'll have no fun?" Nah, but I really don't want to go through that again.
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