My mom demands that I give her iPhone back (as I take a picture) but can't even look up from her Facebook page. Pathetic.
Yesterday, my mom, in a feeble attempt to make conversation, asked me if I had any New Year’s resolutions. I had no freakin’ idea what she was talking about. I’m 4-years-old for chrissakes. I mean I’ve got to start smoking before I can quit, right? My parents, it turns out, have been doing this New Year’s Resolution bullsh*t for decades. Apparently, it’s NOT working. They show all the restraint and willpower of jackals.
That said, here are some suggested New Year’s resolutions for my parents, and parents everywhere. (Let’s cross our fingers this year, shall we?)
1) Be LESS “social”
Accept your vanishing social life and stop using Facebook to simulate actual friendships. Your obsessive trolling of profile pages cuts into the time I could be kicking your aging ass at Memory. Face it mom and dad, you’re no longer part of a vibrant social scene. Sheesh. You can barely stay up past 9 p.m.
2) Stop dieting
Plain and simple. Your endeavor to eat healthier is f*cking with my ability to acquire candy. Stop it.
3) Start listening
Parents are constantly telling us to, “Be a good listener.” Yet, here’s what happens when my mom is “distracted” by one of her many selfish habits (i.e. attempting to cross 8 freeway lanes to get to an off-ramp.)
Me: There was a spider in class today and Mattie crushed it on the window with a LEGO and blood squirted out.
Mom: That’s nice.
Nice?! Blood, dripping down the window of my preschool?! Nice for Freddy Kruger maybe. UM, WHO’S NOT BEING A GOOD LISTENER NOW? That sh*t might’ve worked when I was two but I’m four now and I can tell when you’re phoning it in. Try opening up your ears for 2011. Deal?
4) Spend more time with people you don’t like
Instead of carting me off to playdates with your friends’ kids — usually the kid and I have nothing in common except a toxic disdain for each other– hang out with a mom you can’t stand — whose kid I DO like. Now it’s your turn to be bored sh*tless!
5) Don’t get attached to material things.
Vases shatter, walls get written on, couch cushions become fused together with syrup, expensive lipstick is used for doll “food” and dishwasher doors break when used as one-sided see-saws. Sh*t happens. This year try not let your possession possess you.
See you in 2011!
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December 28, 2010 at 8:24 am
Hehe, neither my 1, 3 nor 6 year old would care much about any of those except number 5 — which is perfect.
They would have:
#1: Don’t be attached to material things, see above.
#2: Leave the lights on. Electricity is cheap. A busy kid like me doesn’t have time to turn off lights behind me.
#3: Stop going to the store. No, I do not need anything and I don’t care if my snow-pants are shredded and you can see my bottom. That’s how I like ’em
#4: Build lego. That’s way cooler than tiling the bathroom, putting away dishes, or cooking dinner.
#5: There is no privacy! If you don’t want me to tell the neighbors kids about something then don’t do!
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December 28, 2010 at 10:11 am
I have already started being less social on Facebook and I have noticed that a lot of people just aren’t there anymore.
I hope you get all the candy you want in 2011! 🙂
December 28, 2010 at 7:54 pm
LOL, Lily you kill me! You have the amazing knack at pointing out the obvious flaws us adults have yet are completely unaware of (or choose to ignore). Please keep me laughing in 2011 sweetheart, you’re brilliant!