Agenda Pushing Onesie: This is my husband's agenda, not mine. I don't like California.
Suzanne Fleet, the writer behind the award-winning blog Toulouse & Tonic, offered 20 useful tidbits for parents in The Huffington Post this week. I've taken the liberty of curating a little sample for you:
1. A baby doesn't really need shoes.
Suzanne is right — they don’t. But that doesn't mean we'd want to deny our acquaintances and distant cousins the pleasure of gifting those little shoes to our babies, would we now? Let's not deny them that. They're doing the best they can.
2. Five stained onesies can make up a baby’s entire wardrobe.
Another valid point, Suzanne. But we'll still want to push our various agendas onto our children via supplemental onesies, and that's okay. When there's a baby around, us parents/grandparents/aunts/other interested parties can't help but exploit its illiteracy by way of the onesie. This is why babies have so many onesies (way way more than five).
3. I do not indeed have an unlistenable singing voice.
This reminds me of how lovely it is that these small someones are so completely and organically into you.
This next one is a bit scary, but also rather difficult to believe:
4. Some kids do not like TV at all. At all.
Really, Suzanne? Not even Julie Andrews? Are these kids American? If this "not liking TV" thing turns out to be true with my second one, how will I be able to finish getting ready in the mornings? TV sets me up with an additional 20 minutes (equal to 1.5 episodes of
Petit Nicolas) to finish getting ready. If my 2-year-old didn't like TV, she'd toddle into my room and interupt my makeup application ritual (she's a relentless makeup bandit*).
Read Suzanne's full article
HERE.
I’ve come to rely on the numbing effects this cartoon has on my 2 year-old.
But hey, at least it's in French. Three cheers for bilingualism.
* I can understand why my toddler wants to play with the makeup. These powders and semi-viscous liquids create quite a transformation.