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Should Parents Grow Up?

By | July 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am

chuck e cheese Some people have been suggesting that adults these days are too immature to be good parents. To that I say Nuh-uh. Ot possibly I know you are, but what am I?

Yes, more 19 – 34 year olds watch Cartoon Network than MSNBC. There are adult kickball leagues. The most famous skateboarder in the world is 39 years old. 

My husband and I play video games after our kids go to bed. I love cartoons. I like to stay up late and say bad words. I own a Hello Kitty guitar. The last time I got together with my blog friends I played drinking Chutes and Ladders.

But that is neither here nor there. 

I play games, I watch The Simpsons, I like moon bounces, but I’m a great mother. My kids know their alphabet and they are two years away from kindergarten. They eat well, and have very good vocabularies for their age. We read and exercise and they go to bed at their bedtime (usually). Sure, I’m immature. That is how I deal with spending my entire day every day with two three year olds. Or wait, maybe that is why I’m so immature in the first place.

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4 Responses to “Should Parents Grow Up?”

  1. Whit says:

    yeah, that’s coo

    actually, we do the video game thing also, as soon as they go to bed the XBOX comes out, and a bottle of wine

  2. Whit says:

    I stay up late and watch porn. That’s coo too, right?

  3. Anonymous says:

    You and your hub sound a lot like me – scary.

    Sometimes, I feel like “the Ricker’s” dad on Silver Spoons, except without the cool train (if I only had space…)

  4. Anonymous says:

    Here too!..but we are also the most popular parents in the complex…who was out there playing WITH the kids in a brutal super soaker water fight!

    Not the other daddies….me and crunchy h.

    And yelling lines from 300…how geek is that!?

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