Comments on: Come, Witness My Failure https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/ For three minutes in the 80's, I was awesome. Sat, 16 Mar 2019 19:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 By: ~JJ! https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3251 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:20:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3251 When my husband comes in and swoops down his fatherly fantastics, I let him. It’s not very often he does it ‘right’…

Just look at it as you didn’t have to give the bath and hear the vortex.

I’d then delineate bathroom duties to the hubs until death do us part.

I’d pour some wine for myself at that point.

(You are not a failure, you are a wonderful mom….)

]]> By: karrie https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3245 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:02:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3245 I have the opposite problem with baths—M always wants to take one and I have to drag him out screaming—but I feel your pain with shoes. The kid has more shoes–and now mittens for it is impossible to find a mitten that does not offend—than Imelda Marcos.

When I finally found sneakers he would wear, I bought them in the next 3 sizes.

]]> By: Gunfighter https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3235 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3235 Well, it works for me, too: “Hey! Didn’t moommy just tell you do get in the shower?” “yes, daddy” “Then get in there, right now!”

Done.

]]> By: Becky https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3234 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3234 What Sarah said. Luckily, mothers can hear each other.

]]> By: A Whole Lot of Nothing https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3233 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3233 My husband, too, have a way with the children. It’s like a centered calmness that he exudes that they respond to. Me, on the other hand, exude frustration. That, or they just don’t like me.

]]> By: Redneck Mommy https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3232 My husband is the same way.

Bugs the shit out of me.

]]> By: Mrs. Chicken https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3231 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3231 I say use it to your advantage. Abdicate from bathtime – hand it over to the hubby, since he is such a zen master. What say you?

]]> By: Jennifer, Le Binky Bitch https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3230 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3230 This is why Mother’s Day should be a monthly event…for all the shit we have to take.

]]> By: the end of motherhood https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:52:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3229 Look at it this way…you just got out of bath duty for a while and your hubs is now on duty. What’s not to like?

]]> By: Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah https://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-3227 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.mammaloves.com/2008/02/come-witness-my-failure/#comment-3227 I have a theory on this. I think that children can completely tune out a mother voice.

A father’s voice is something else completely.

Grrrrrrr.

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