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With apologies to one independent, feisty little Hispanic chick I think we have all earned the right to dance around singing “We did it!, We did it, We did it!!! - Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!”
That’s right, the baby - Usurper - has made it to her first birthday, and to top it off she is fast changing […]
When will Usurper actually take that first stuttering step towards the ultimate in freedom - bipedal movement? She is close, very very close. She will at times stand up and let go of whatever she is holding onto, standing there grinning and giggling like a maniac until she falls to her ass - at which […]
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Wife has been sick for the last little while and the baby Usurper has also been a bit crook (and has also been getting the odd new tooth), so to try and give them a bit of a break I spent a fair chunk of today out and about at a market and then some […]
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It is official, we are off to the Big Room (not to be confused with the big house) at daycare. Little Miss has finally graduated from the little kids room to the big kids room because there is a vacancy.
It was a close run thing as the daycare people were reticent to allow her […]
I am sure that after today Wife and I will be held up to future generations as an example of bad parents. Not for anything hideous mind you, no actual physical or emotional abuse of our Little Miss or Usurper (well no more than is standard in a modern Western family anyway). It is more […]
Read Bad Parenting 101 »You see there is a farewell picnic today for one of Little Misses friends who is moving half way across the state. This marks the first departure from her group of friends so it will be interesting to see how she copes when she realises that her little boyfriend (as Wife likes to call him just to torment me) is gone and won’t be back again. But what makes us bad parents is not my total disregard for the feelings of Little Miss when it comes to the farewelling of a friend, but the fact we are going at all.
I have been a bit sick for a couple of weeks with a throat and ear infection, Little Miss has a perforated eardrum and is still on antibiotics and Usurper currently has two little rivers of snot running down her nose - and despite all this we are still going to the picnic.
Some of you are probably thinking that it is sweet that we are dragging our sorry asses to this picnic to farewell our little friend, bit trust me it’s not. We aren’t going for that reason, we are going simply to get out of the house and not have to put up with the whinging and whining that comes with disease (mainly from me to be honest).
So we are off to infect the world with our various diseases so that we can share the burden of looking after the kids for an hour or two and hopefully have them be distracted by their little friends. I know the other parents will talk about us and complain when their own kids get sick - but hey, that’s their problem not mine, I will be relishing the hours peace before the afternoon meltdown 
And another example of a bad parenting 101 would be my cries yesterday to a tantruming toddler to ‘Stop being a sook and grow up!’ - hmmmm, me thinks I expect too much of the 3 year old at times.
