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Posted by: lenseview 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Smart, amusing, authentic piece -- confession -- from an over-worked working mother who is proud to proclaim she's not perfect (far from it!) & get used to it.... (Start of an ongoing blog.)

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engineer5 months, 2 weeks ago

Enjoyed it. She's honest
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  jumpmaster5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Honest, but still a bad parent.
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Francisca5 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks Lenseview!! Amusing! There is no bad Mom...never!Only bad father(consequently bad husband!).They also sometimes can help for the Housework! LOL!
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daducha5 months, 2 weeks ago

Cool article. I guess most of us are not the model parents we would love to be, but we keep trying everyday.
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  hotdrhot3 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  Yep that's right
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lestparker5 months, 2 weeks ago

more like kraft singles at my house ;)
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Charlson5 months, 2 weeks ago

Regardless of what kind of lifestyle she provides her children, she's a saint compared to the mothers who emotionally and/or physically scar their offsprings. Just yesterday on the news, there was a story of a woman going back home after a job interview with her two children. She phoned 911 along the way to inform authorities that one of her kids was no longer breathing and she thought she might be dead. When the police arrived, they discovered the girl already in rigor mortis with scars and bruises all over her body. What's a little cheese on the back of the toilet compared to this?
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mackiemesser5 months, 2 weeks ago

I was a single father for most of my son's growing up years and boy, did I try hard to be a model father and mother to him. I kept the house spotless, spent as much time with him as he could stand, went to ALL of his soccer, football, basketball, tennis games AND practices, ALL the PTA meetings, ALL those awful events at his school (you ever sit through a grade school beginning band concert?...whoa!), cooked all his breakfasts and dinners and packed a lunch for school, and I had to re-arrange my work schedule to get all of this in and I did this because I didn't want him to miss out on not having a mother around. Wish I read this blog back then and know that I could have taken it a lot easier.
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itsme25 months, 2 weeks ago

It makes me feel better about leaving those dishes this morning! LOL thanks Lensview
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hahahahahahahaaaa. LMAO

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jumpmaster5 months, 2 weeks ago

My parents did not have the internet so they could not surf to see how to get us to do chores.
It was really very simple. Do your chores or get the cheese beat out of you.
We all grew up fine and all of our little self esteems are just fine.
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quackpot5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nobody is going to download your malware, Mega
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farhadd5 months, 2 weeks ago

The funniest bit was one of the comments left below the post:
....asked in kindergarten to write about "What My Parents Do." She wrote, "My Mom washes dishes. My Dad sits on the sofa and eats potato chips."
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moxxxxxxxxxx5 months, 2 weeks ago

In the end you will not say I wish I had spent more time on the job. When you are over 50 and your children are grown you will long to have the days back when your children were young.
One day you will just wake up and realize no one , except yourself, cares how succesful you are- and the only ones impressed by your financial success just want your money.
Your children are the only people guaranteed to be in your life from beginning to end- even spouses come and go - if you don't invest your time now you can expect a negative return when you need them the most.
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atkins82834 months, 4 weeks ago

How nice are you for posting this news. It's really helpful for me. Thanks
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debbiesmatth2 months, 2 weeks ago

When my daughter was learning to tell time at school, the teacher gave them a sheet of paper with "empty" clocks and they were required to correctly place the minute and hour hands on the clock according to an assigned daily task. My daughter correctly placed the hands on the clock at 8:30 p.m. as the time "your family eats dinner." The teacher marked it as an incorrect entry. My daughter was livid. "But mom, that really is the time we get around to eating dinner, isn't it? "Yes, honey -- you're right -- your teacher is wrong. I'll write you a note to explain. Little did I tell the teacher that getting a meal on the table at 8:30 wasn't always a given! Sometimes it wasn't until nine and at that point who really cares? Bring out the cold cereal or Ramen noodles! :)
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sidrsjakess2 months, 2 weeks ago

I think mom not every bad.
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aaralyn2 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing this. Makes me feel better
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indlalaswein2 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing this. Makes me feel better. I have the same challenges, and I don't even have kids, just way more things on my plate than I know what to do with. Working on that though ;-)
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gallaszx2 months, 2 weeks ago

These confessions might sound extreme, but they're not. I know this because most of my friends are like me. This insight I owe to what I call "the Havarti cheese epiphany." This happened one day when I went to my friend Sue's house.
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voroninzaa2 months, 2 weeks ago

Three cleaning ladies have quit on us -- because our house was too dirty.
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impbaby12 months ago

Thanks for sharing this! it's bad parent.
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earleneganesa2 months ago

We refer to any dinner that is not spaghetti or mac & cheese as not pasta night.
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