So you know when you’re pregnant you promise yourself you’re not going to do certain things with your child. But when you become a parent you sometimes realize how unobtainable some of those promises were.
Lets see. I promised that my child would not eat fast food until she was a teenager. LOL! Yeah right. Granted she doesn’t eat hamburgers, I only get her chicken from fast food, she has had it (never any soda though with it).
I promised Kaylee wouldn’t drink soda. I think I’ve stuck to this one pretty good though. She’s had a sip here and there. She’s not drinking full cups of soda though. I used to not want her to have sugar but that all changed after diagnosis and sugar became our friend, not the enemy. But I still don’t like soda (I don’t really even drink it myself) so I try to keep her away from it.
I promised that Kaylee would not watch TV before the age of two. For someone who is a TV whore I’m not sure how I thought this would happen. She’s been watching (as in actually watching shows) since about 1.5. Before that the TV was on but she never cared or paid attention to it.
I promised my child would not drink chocolate milk on a regular basis. Now it’s something she has all the time. Once again the sugar content isn’t as big of a deal as it was when I made these promises and chocolate milk helps her maintain good blood sugar. Why fight what works? It’s better than corn starch which is the alternative.
I promised my child would never wear pink. LOL! As you know pink is her primary color of choice. And it’s pretty. Pink grows on you.
Promises I have kept, she’s being homeschooled. I think this is easier to keep because we don’t have the money to pay for preschool and I hate public school with a passion so it’s not as easy to break because there is so much to convince me to go ahead and homeschool.
So over all I think we all make plans and promises that will never be kept. We can succeed on some depending on how you feel about it and your motivations and on others it may not be as important to do. Over all even though I didn’t do what I said I would, Kaylee is a bright little girl and I don’t think by allowing some of these things that she’s been “damaged” or “delayed” in any way. I actually credit television with a lot of her verbal skills and knowledge (because she doesn’t watch adult TV, except House on occasion).
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