When will I ever learn?: A guide to rookie mistakes by one mom.

As a parent, you can sometimes get excited and hyped up about something, only to have your child act in the opposite manner.

My first example of this was the day I bought Meg one of those backyard houses. They are basically a little playhouse that sits in the yard.

I thought she’d go ape shit over it and at the time, she was 2.5 and instead goes ape-shit over the bikini-hand-me-down we received that day and wanted to put it on instantly even though it was two sizes too big, and when I wouldn’t let her, refused to go in the yard to see the house.

When I let her put it on, so I could get her outside, she looks at the house and then continues to whine over why I wouldn’t let her put it on in the first place.

 Also ape-shit worthy : empty paper towel holders, toilet paper, dum dum lollipops,  bubbles,  tissue paper and glue, construction paper pad, pencils with hearts on them, allowing her to sharpen her own pencil and cleaning up a spill with paper towels.

The above list, I learned after some time, however, I still continue from time to time, to make “rookie mistakes”.

 
See, we think as parents that buying a big ticket item or doing something over the top with them is going to be GRAND but in reality, there’s nothing better in life than letting them run around the house with a roll of toilet paper.

 
When will I learn?

Case in point, we took her to see Mary Poppins on Broadway. Tickets set us back a good 500 dollars. Big excitement came when the usher gave us a cushion she could sit on and when she got Skittles at intermission.

Second case, I buy her a Nintendo DS, against my better judgement, for her pre-school graduation and she cast it aside because I had the “wrong game” and instead played with a 1.00 inflatable beach ball for a good few hours that says “Class of 2008” on it.

 
Rookie mistakes, I tell you.