Sharing My Good & Honest Moments + GIVEAWAY #GoodandHonest #Motts
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We’ve all been there as parents. Those moments when you know you aren’t the perfect parent. Sometimes things don’t always go as planned so we have to just roll with it. We all have come up with our own little parenting hacks to help us get through the ups and downs of parenthood. Mott’s understands that moms and dads work hard to be the best parents they can be, but sometimes in the balance of life, we falter and recognize that we can’t always be perfect. That’s why they recently launched the Good & Honest campaign with ads sharing some of life’s “parenting truths” moments to uplift parents, share a laugh and acknowledge we all improvise along the way.
I got a laugh at this new campaign because I can totally relate. I am that mom who has made some extremely annoying toy disappear. My sanity is important after all. And I got to thinking of some of the ways I’ve improvised over the years. Here are some of my Good & Honest moments.
Song & Dance
I like to make up songs. When my eight year old was a baby, he cried, a lot. I found that singing to him, even with my terrible voice, helped soothe him. I didn’t know a lot of the words to popular lullabies (and some I found a bit creepy), so I made up my own fun lyrics. They never failed to make me laugh and help me get through a long and sleepless night. Often I couldn’t remember the words I came up with even the next day, but it didn’t matter.
I have continued with this tradition with all my kids, even as they have gotten older. If they are having a bad day or simply need a distraction, I will bust into a silly song and dance. I have no problems embarrassing myself and most of the time it works to make them smile. I think this helps me release stress as much as it helps them.
Child Labor
I love taking a task that would normally be called a chore, and making it into something fun. Thankfully my youngest enjoys helping me out. Tasks like loading the dishwasher or doing the laundry are fun for him. Last week I caught Wes eyeing the sticks in the backyard. I suggested we pick them all up for daddy to help him out. He was a very enthusiastic helper and thought picking up sticks was a blast!
I wish I could say I’m a master at this still with my older kids who have figured out these tasks are actually chores, but I’m working on it.
Goodbye Artwork
I’ve learned the hard way that I can’t let my kids see me throw anything they’ve created away because it suddenly becomes their most prized possession. I admit I feel a little guilty discarding their artwork, but I really can’t keep it all. Out of sight, out of mind totally works. I’ve thrown away a ton of stuff they’ve never asked about, but I have to be stealth like when doing it. Folding it up, putting it in with other papers, shoving it to the bottom, all of them work. I just don’t make the mistake of leaving it on the top of the recycling bin unless I want a, “How could you?” kind of response followed by a wave of guilt.
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I have always had to mix their medication in with anything possible. Smoothies and fresh juice seem to work the best. I also have to always make my special sauce which is tons of veggies blended together. They love it and have no idea that it is nothing but veggies. Muahah 🙂
My son will eat just about anything. Pills can be a problem, though. So I tell him he can pick his favorite smoothie or snack and after he has taken his pill, he can have whatever he has chosen. I’m very lucky he’s such a good eater.
When my son does not want to take his medicine, I try to buy the medicine in blue for leonardo from tmnt and tell him to take his Leo medicine so he can be strong and save the world from bad guys.
I feel asleep waiting on the tooth fairy so we turned it into a two day event. She enjoyed it and I saved my butt.
One parenting hack that we learned a couple weeks ago….was when getting a cold icee or shake…and its always so cold for the little ones to hold. We ask for an extra cup and napkins. You wrap the cold cup with a couple napkins and put it in the empty cup! The napkins in between the two cups keep the outside cup from getting so cold!!!
i cant really think of any. i just do whatever i need to do when each situation comes up
I TRY TO MIX IN VEGETABLES INTO HIS FAVORITE PASTAS, RICE AND MAC AND CHEESE 🙂
I think my daughter is still too little to need to trick her so I don’t have any stories like that but one thing that has gotten us through the first several months is babywearing.
we have contests as to who can clean faster, whoever wins gets a prize from the prize box
I have been known to sneak veggies in spaghetti sauce so my kids would eat veggies.
My most recent parenting hack I picked up from my mom when we were at the zoo. My kids were starting to separate from us, run after being told not, etc. My mom settled them on a bench and put them in a time-out. They hated being told to be still and potentially bored at the zoo. I would have never thought of that and reserved my punishment for later at home. Boy, I’ll be using that from now on.
We make smoothies and add veggies and they never know!
Does singing made up little song verses about the situation in public count? 🙂
My son has hated getting his hair cut since he was little. So I started cutting it while he slept. We didn’t have to go thru the trauma of going to the barber and his hair was trimmed!
Oh my goodness Jessica! That is too funny and gotta admit it….ingenious!
My son didn’t want to wear something he was required to do. He agreed to wear it under duress after I told him I would wear something to an agreed upon place as long as it wasn’t inappropriate (like a bathing suit to a grocery store). Thankfully, when it was my turn to wear what I had to under duress, I had to wear a floppy hat, sunglasses, a scarf and summer clothes without a coat. It was in the winter. I could live with that.
My daughter thinks taking laundry out of the dryer is super fun! I figure it is the easy way out of at least taking it out of the dryer and getting it to the living room to fold. So she does all that! She is 3….and will eventually see that I am slacking just a bit! But until then….she’s got a good system going!
We often sing or say educational chants in the car or as we take a walk.
Oh, the videos of the kids having full on meltdowns. So wrong to have filmed them, but they will be so funny when they are teens.
I cook 2 meals most of the time, I just want my son to eat. I really don’t tell people this because it is embarrassing.
I catch everything I can on video the good, bad, funny, etc. and when they get older, I plan on showing them all of it 🙂