The Rowland Chronicles: Parent Fail

Lately I haven't been the best parent. I'm not talking about anything significant or detrimental to their life. I've just been slacking. Tis the season maybe? I don't know. I'm not really worried about it too much but the whole story that prompted this post got me thinking about my parenting fails lately.

First, we don't even have our tree up yet. Sure it's only December 11th but we've usually decked the halls by now and then some. We've been busy and this new puppy is pretty time consuming. Plus, I know the puppy probably isn't going to leave the the decor alone so I'm kinda dreading that. The kids keep asking when we are going to put the tree up but in my defense, last weekend when I wanted to put it up, they both went to friends. So maybe it's really their fault?

Then we have this puppy. We love her to pieces and know the puppy phase is just a phase but oh mercy! She is a handful! I feel like we are constantly bickering over the dog which creates negative energy...or so Cesar Rowland has told us (repeatedly). It's like having a baby all over again. You really do forget!

So the big fail last night came when Bobby asked some questions about a song. If you are easily offended or don't like butts, don't watch the following video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs&list=RDLDZX4ooRsWs#t=0

I'm sure most of you have heard Anaconda by Nicki Minaj. It's a catchy tune. Yes, we let our kids listen to this music and I'm sure some may not agree with our choices but these kids are our's to screw up so we pick our battles.

Anyway, yesterday Bobby came home singing Anaconda. They were singing it at school, then on the bus, so by time he got home, it was stuck in his head. So he was dancing around the kitchen singing and then stopped and asked what an anaconda was? Then proceeded to sing "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon" I told him an anaconda was a snake. He was so confused. He was like "well why would a snake care about someone's butt? I mean, is is gonna try and bite someone on the butt? That's just weird" I did what all good parents do. I told him I wasn't sure and to study his spelling words. On the inside I was part cracking up and part mortified at my bad parenting.

I know we've all had these moments. I know I have many more to come. I think as parents we have to laugh at our mistakes and just do better the next day. I know I've said it before but I was a perfect parent....before I had kids! I learn every day from my mistakes but you just gotta keep moving forward. And maybe eventually you will get your tree up!

So as I wrap this up (unlike my gifts that aren't wrapped yet)...I will leave you with some photos. When I started to write this post, I looked on pinterest for pictures of parent fails. These two came up....