For the most part Papa and I see eye to eye when it comes to Mia. We both love her to pieces and that's what counts. However, our approaches to parenting and caring for Mia vary greatly in some respects. It does peeve me when on Papa's watch the following occurs:
1. No sunscreen is applied to Mia's exposed parts. Just because Papa does not like the feel of sunscreen on his hands and does not like sunscreen himself he feels it is okay to let Mia go unprotected from the sun.
2. Mia does not always wear a hat when out in the California sun. Again this is because Papa does not care for hats himself.
3. Papa does not cut skin off Mia's non-organic fruits. Though I try to only buy organic for Mia, it is not always possible. Papa says, Mia can grip fruit more easily with skin intact. I think he's just lazy.
4. Since Papa ingests a very minimal amount of liquids daily, he fails to remember that Mia needs water to travel with her at all times. The need to hydrate oneself is especially important in the summers, but Papa forgets this.
5. Papa has been known to give Mia lollipops or suckers as he calls them. They were on the teller's counter at BofA and he thought it was okay for Mia to have them.
6. Papa has also given Mia brownies and other items with chocolate.
7. Papa does not do a great job wiping Mia's bottom after her bowel movements. I know this because I will change a non-poppy diaper afterwards and the wipe oftentimes contain remnants of stool.
These are just a few examples that come to mind at the moment. Anyone have other tales of how dads are a tad less vigilant or am I neurotic as Papa describes?
3 comments:
I can attest to that... :P
Soojin teaches 3 nights a week ... so I am to watch the kids while she works when I return home from work... but since I'm too tired, I usually end up letting them watch more TV (kids' video really) than she would've liked...
I'm more willing to give them more juice (though I do mix more water into it as it's waaaay too sweet!), cookies, and what not...
I do make the attempt to follow her "guidelines" but kids are kids... so I try not to control too much of "fun factor". :P Like this Saturday, we had pizza for lunch at local restaurant and then ice cream at Marble Slab.
So... sorry for being a guy! :D
Oh and forgot to add about organic food! I hope you and Soojin never meet!! She's an organic food fanatic as well!! :P It's all good... but soooo expensive!
kevin complains about putting sunscreen on lucas and i always remind him how sunscreen is one of those non-negotiable things, plus he needs to imagine how miserable life would be with a sunburned 4-year old.
when i'm not home, kevin is much more trigger happy when it comes to plugging lucas in to a dvd. i don't like him to have screen time.
on the other hand, i give lucas more sugar than kevin does. because of my sweet tooth, i can't exactly go into a bakery and get myself a cookie without getting one for him (i could when he was younger, but not for the past couple years).
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