My 6 Mommy Fails of December

Here are my Mommy Fails of December! I'm going to want to hear yours now! hehe

1. I forgot the piñata at his birthday party

I spent a lot of time finding a pull string piñata to ensure that the children wouldn’t have difficulty freeing the goodies trapped inside…and that we wouldn’t have a birthday video worthy of America’s Funniest Videos.

I carefully chose small toys and a few allergen free candies to put inside.  I was pretty excited about this giant dinosaur piñata for my little guy’s second birthday.

Then, I forgot it.  I forgot to take it out.  It’s not that big a deal I guess.  But I definitely spent a few days beating myself up about it.

2. I told him we were going to ride a roller coaster

Once when I needed to drag him out to run errands for the billionth time, I lied to him. It’s awful, I know.  He didn’t want to go. I can’t blame him. I didn’t really want to go either, but we had to. Then he said something… “Mommy, I can go ride rollercoaster?”

I’m ashamed to admit it but, in my exhausted stressed out state, I said “Oh yea! Big rollercoasters!” Then I breathed a sigh of relief when he walked to the car without a fight. Thankfully, he forgot about the rollercoasters.

I know lying is bad. I still feel awful about this one.

3. I let him eat cookies for breakfast

One morning, after a particularly long night, I asked him what he wanted for breakfast. A quick inventory of the kitchen revealed we were out of all the quick grab items and I would have to actually cook something.  He never said what he wanted for breakfast. I thought about the time we actually had left before we had to be out the door and made a poor decision.

I fed my kid a small bag of arrowroot cookies for breakfast. He loved it. Considering all the time and effort I spend trying to get him to make healthy choices, I feel pretty guilty about this one.

4. I fed him candy throughout an entire church service

Shortly after the cookie incident, this one happened. We were at church. It was a special service. I needed him to be really quiet. I started feeding him those little Smarties one at a time. We made it through three sleeves of the candies. We also made it through church without a peep.

I should feel worse about this one than I actually do.

5. I told him the cauliflower was white broccoli

I really do try to get him to make healthy choices most of the time.  That’s how this one happened. My kid loves broccoli! When he’s sick and I can’t get him to eat anything else, he will eat steamed broccoli.  So one night I was trying to get him to try cauliflower and he kept telling me it was yucky.

I lied again. I told him it was just white broccoli, that snow made it white. He ate it. Now he thinks cauliflower is white broccoli, but that’s beside the point.

I really need to stop lying to my toddler.

6. I let him play Peppa Pig videos on my cell phone throughout dinner

We went to a nice dinner with my in-laws for my mother in law’s birthday.  It was taking a really long time to get our food, so I’m claiming this one was partially the restaurants fault.  I broke out the tablet, our restaurant life-saver and put on some Peppa Pig clips. My little guy goes crazy for Peppa Pig.  After a few episodes, he was totally engrossed and there was no turning back.

I let him keep watching the tablet throughout dinner. There are a multitude of reasons why I shouldn’t have done this. I did it anyway. It was nice to eat in peace and quiet for once.

Written by: Sara Parise