Sunday, November 28, 2010

C Minus Mommy Manifesto

Hello Blogosphere,
I’m a c minus mommy.
What constitutes a c minus mommy? First of all, if you’re even entertaining the idea you might be a c minus mommy, chances are, you might be one.
C Minus Mommys wonder if it’s wrong to secretly wish that your kid will have kids as a teenager because she knows that may be the only chance she’ll have to see grandchildren having waited too long to have kids.
C Minus Mommys wonder if going to see a child psychologist with your kid constitutes quality time?
C Minus Moms still sometimes sneak into their  12 year old kid’s room at night and smells his  head.
A C Minus Mother doesn’t “cook” dinner, she “heats.”
C Minus Mom insists her kid make his bed everyday but doesn’t have the discipline to enforce the rule.
C Minus Mama also has a no tv  on week day nights rule that is regularly broken by her husband who insists that “Sports” is not tv but is too tired to enforce that rule too.
C Minus Ma’s kid goes to a public school where the electives have 44 kids per class, so she’s decided she should get personally involved in her middle schooler’s education, a choice that has been warmly embraced by her child. (If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.)
C Minus Madre came up with an elaborate and well thought out plan to teach her kid the value of creating a budget with his allowance, but had never once remembered to dole out said allowance, much less the ratio of savings to spending money.
C Minus Mommy is a writer and is the mother of one tween and wife to another writer. CMM is overworked, underpaid and though she keeps a gratitude list everyday, is very cynical about such things.
C Minus Mom doesn’t know she wrote in the third person, but this is the first blog entry and she promises to do better.

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