Sunday, March 20, 2011

Eden's Smile

Eden smiles with his whole mouth and face.  I have never been a morning person but this kid makes me want to get up just to see that smile in the morning. Believe me he still has to rap on my head a few times, but as soon as my eyes open I am in pure heaven.

I hate to think that someday he may take after his mommy and start being a grump in the morning, but for now it is his favorite time of day!

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Perfect and Eden's mommie may not be the perfect parents...together

I know that there are not many people who can automatically know that they will parent well together, but Perfect and I have had glimpses of the future and I am worried.

He is very strict.  His 14 year old daughter was grounded for a month for a hickey.  The hickey did not happen as a result of a hot and heavy make out session.  There was another adult in the room that did not notice anything.  So when his daughter told us that it was the result of a joking around and the fact that this thing was the size of a pea I tend to believe her.  Her father and mother however thought that grounding her for a month was reasonable.

I was never grounded for that long as a child and I never grounded the boys that long.  Perfect even threatened to have an injunction put on the boy.

I think this was a super overreaction on the part of the parents and I am afraid that he and I will not be able to talk these things out before he flies off the handle and goes overboard punishing Eden.  I believe that once a punishment is given you should stick to it and I do not want to stick to super crazy punishments that do not fit the crime. 

Maybe I am just a Hippie.