When they won’t listen, just drag them.
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How to Drag Your Kid
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Most people looking at this would say omg, what a horrible mother dragging her kid around like that. Here’s my story:
I have 2 kids:
Kid #1 – a calm, easy-going, fairly well-behaved baby/toddler and rarely had tantrums. Occasionally we would have to take him out of a restaurant until he calmed down, but nothing overboard. He didn’t mind staying in his stroller, he was happy sitting in a shopping cart. I glared at mothers who had their kids on leashes. How could they?
Kid #2 – a challenge. Always found ways out of her car set, stroller, or shopping cart. I always had to be directly in front of the cart or she would work her way out. Some could say I was a horrible parent for latching her car seat too tight, but I learned the hard way when I had to pull over because she had jimmied herself loose. Retail stores or malls? Impossible. If my eyes weren’t glued on her every second, *poof*! GONE. Parking lots were a potential nightmare. I bought a child leash. Did she like it? NO. Did she fight it. YES. Did I end up dragging her when she rebelled? Once or twice.
So tell me, all of you BUSY parents out there, who can’t always find the most convenient time to NOT take your kids shopping, or to the grocery store, or running errands, and who can’t necessarily afford hiring a babysitter every time, how horrible is this photo, really?
Parents have to pick their battles, and sometimes they have to stand their ground, regardless of what strangers see or perceive.
Did the people glaring at me know the story of my child? Did they understand that I worried about my child’s safety and that I had had it “up to here?” That they were seeing only a smidgen of the constant battle I was fighting in teaching my wee daughter that “it is not okay to run off, or climb out of your safety seat, or get out of the stroller unless you stay by mom?”
There are 2 sides of a story.
This mom could just be lazy. Maybe. Maybe not.
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