If It Works, Why Not?

Okay, so I originally set up this blog to post excerpts of my writing, short stories, etc... Not really anticipating to actually blog but I need to vent about something that has been eating at me for a couple of weeks now.... I am one for sharing ideas with other parents if you come across something that is helpful in everyday life, like how some of the Evenflo brand baby bottle nipples fit perfectly on to the Gerber baby juice to-go bottles (which is nice to know when you are out and about) or how I was warned that if a baby or toddler gets mushed banana on a white shirt that the banana can actually make a brown stain.... But I am against parents or anyone for that matter, telling me how to discipline my children. I am totally against child abuse and think that if anyone ever came across a parent taking discipline way too far and crossed that line into abuse, that they should definitely step in and do something. But do not tell me that I need to punish my child for something and how...

We have all heard the cliché “Children say the darndest things” and as parents we simply are forced by everyday life to accept the fact that there is legitimate reasoning for why that stupid saying exists. I am not talking about a child says that they want to be a dinosaur when they grow up as this is something that all kids say at some point, whether it be a dinosaur, a princess, Spider-Man or whatever they are into. I am speaking about the things that, in reality, are supposed to be above a child’s head, things that children do not truly understand the meanings to or are supposed to keep opinionated to themselves. Like when a child blurts out at the store in the middle of a crowded check out line, that ‘the cashier is really fat and that she never wants to get fat like her.’ These are the things the leak out of children’s mouths causing humiliation for naïve intolerance of differences or extreme hilarity due to obscure nature of the comment. Pare...