The weight of these two secrets has been building and building, and I just need to get them off my conscience. You must promise never to tell my kids.
Secret #1: When reading books to my kids, I often skip words, paragraphs, or even entire pages. Especially at bedtime. We have some Thomas the train and Dr. Seuss books that take a really long time to read. Sometimes, I just flip through the pages, avoiding the words altogether, and just make up a few words of my own.
Secret #2: I sneak candy out of their Halloween bags. Not from Thing 1’s bag, because he counts all the pieces and knows exactly how much he has. But Thing 2 is too young to realize it, so I keep doing it.
Ok, so I’m a terrible parent. But can you honestly tell me you haven’t done the same???
3 responses so far ↓
1 Amy // Nov 16, 2007 at 12:27 am
I am guilty of both.
It’s pretty easy to skip words because they are not really listening to me anyway.
The candy, well I’m just protecting their teeth.
2 Joe // Dec 6, 2007 at 2:34 am
Bah! That’s nothing. You actually read the words in the books? What the heck? I thought it was our duty just to show them the pictures. My kids really don’t enjoy the stories most of the time, unless it is a simple and fun one like Birthday Monsters. Dude, you are far from a bad parent, that is almost requisite. LOL!
3 Kevin // Dec 6, 2007 at 11:02 am
Guilty as charged.
I was just about to fess up about offense number one on my blog.
We got together with friends over Thanksgiving and it was a big topic of conversation about making up stories, that are a lot shorter than those in the book, to go along with the pictures to get the children to sleep.
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