by Caustic Mom
Confession time – I could have titled this post, “My Two-Year-Old Drank Pop” because said three-year-old totally drank pop when she was only two.
And not just once at a birthday party because I was inattentive.
She drinks pop in a horrible, terrible, have-a-small-cup-of-her-own or big-ass-sip-of-mine kinda way.
Because I drink pop. And way too much of it.
I know it’s bad for me, and so very, very bad for her. I have tried again and again to quit. I know if I get it out of my diet, and consequently the house, I can stop caving when she begs for a sip since it literally won’t be available.
Every day I swear I’m going to quit. And by 10am I have the shakes.
You know how I got hooked?
Drinking my dad’s pop when I was a little kid.
The irony of this is not lost on me.
7 Comments
Can you hear the collective intake of breath from the internet? The sheer volume of judgement being aimed at your bubble addicted ass right now is nothing short of tsunami level girlfriend.
However, Moms are flawed and we get tired and we allow stuff. My kid gets way more time on video games than he should because at that moment I just can’t listen to him beg anymore.
You know you need to stop, and you know your kid shouldn’t have it, you don’t need a bunch of us telling you that.
How about this piece to mull around in your head: there is a theory out there that is starting to gain ground that says our pancreas has a genetically preset number of “shocks” it can handle before it starts to fail. According to that theory, some people can drink a pop every day because they have that many more sugar shocks they can handle. Other people use them up and then get diabetes. What I want to know is why we can’t have a counter on the outside that lets us know how many we have left? Personally I would like my liver to have a meter… just sayin’.
I don’t remember writing this. Maybe I had too much rum in my coke when I did. Ok it’s wasn’t me but it could have been.
WAIT! And you say I can’t drink from home. Tee hee 🙂
Worst.
It sucks to be a judgy judgerson, but it sucks more to not even try.
http://www.babble.com/kid/humblebrag-my-5-year-old-has-never-had-a-soda/
Oh please. That is all.
So my mom may or may not have put diet coke in my sons bottle while we were driving because he was crying, and I didn’t have a bottle ready. So forever more I can blame it on her! Its good for them!
OMG I love your mom. Seriously, is she accepting applications because I’m in the market.