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???
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.
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!
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.